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wings brushed the Rolls towers
When I lost me despite my
We arrived in a Rolls and I
Hazardous area, an isolated area

Serge Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson

The words of the great Serge floated in the night nervousness. The sedan, which appeared to be riding his own reflection in the iridescent wet asphalt, I strained my eyes to the outside of hairpin.

Winter, Paris suburbs, lack of sleep habits that away, the stranger grabs you. But adventure point. Angel doze while a Chinese scooter goes dangerously close upon us.
In opening his eyes, we are my friends and me in the sublime setting of lush sepia Etangs de Corot, the new flagship of the luxury hospitality and cuisine of Pearl announced dagovéranienne.
We do know that we marvel at the warmth of plush lounges, corridors, landscapes, spaces and cabins of the Spa Caudalie you visit us. The home also is charming, full of gentleness and kindness. The luxury here has added an ally of choice: goodness. It's like home, only better (no need to take out the trash ).
The resort offers 3 restaurants. Tonight we will experience the most ambitious The Corot, gourmet cuisine (there's also the Cafe des Artistes , so chic bistro and, in season, the huts in the face of divine ponds). The Chief Benoit Bordier, Jean defector from - bibendum a button - is in charge of all this, and we can taste a sample of the new map, six services. We shall
menu titled MENU (so far so good).

Subtitles: Mixed Impressions

... Or how Corot inspired card

We guess the will to include the proposal in the parentage of the painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, who says the site mayor of Ville d'Avray , spent long hours at the edge of ponds storing its equipment in a wooden hut beneath a weeping willow on the edge of the old pond . It does not specify if it was sometimes used to scrape the testicles, but it's still terribly well informed. The problem is that this desire for affiliation manifests itself a bit rough: Mixed Impressions reminds us more of Philately ( offset and intaglio , intaglio and gravure are such printing techniques mixed stamps) that the painter named above, and we do not really understand what that inspired Corot in the map that we will discover (and pass on where instead of or despite the protests of outraged Jacques Capelovici ). The references do not stop there, the butler is a painter in overalls - my friends find it nice, and I winded - and there are digital reproductions of paintings of giant master (Corot, not hotel ). The decor in general is quite successful, the cozy atmosphere at will, so hunting lodge remixed by Jacques Garcia , fair and cordial service, finesse, finish put you at ease.

Chic diners, Bordier butter from home in Saint-Malo, always compelling, and extra bread.

Mise en bouche: oyster and salmon eggs, a delicious simplicity, freshness impeccable, some diced crunchy toast for a treat that makes you really appetite rather than start you off.

Then a palette of colors, textures, products, condiments to the title abounding:

Trout and Green Apple Vodka Jelly
truffle oil Sesame

Tile Grout banana pepper
Seared Foie Gras

We also used a glass cold cream of artichoke (with cashew nuts and a truffle flavor), which then I can not whether it is a second placing in the mouth or a satellite dish which I associated with going to attack me. In any case, it is delicious.

The dish, it leaves a little confused, because a little tote, fun certainly, but probably good we would like to see more head to get wet, we suggest reading an angle of attack, its perfect combination. We wanted to know how to balance these condiments (vodka or sometimes dominated the banana products) - or just how involved (tile sesame?). It is also the boldness of these ingredients combined to make one dares not necessarily seek the association, whether one is walking on eggshells, where one would like that take us by the creator hand, we needle, reassures us.

We finished combining the semi-cooked foie gras in a creamy artichoke-cashews, and that was good!

Then came a plate of high-flying, high house, confusing control:

Rouget ... pumpkin molasses, turnip golden ball

The mullet is beautifully cooked his deliciously crispy skin, turnip that comes with it is firm and melting at a time (yes, as Eva Longoria), mashed pumpkin molasses gives the union the power bittersweet she claims. Is clear. It's perfect.

far we drank a glass of Champagne Bruno Paillard A glass of Pessac Leognan Les Hauts de Smith 2007 pleasant wooded but very present, a dry 2008 jurançon domain Larredya which worked perfectly with the mullet. Food and wine solidly designed and made even better: nice glasses, decanters beautiful, nice waiter.

And now the meat dish. No, fish. No meat. No, ... Well, both at the same time, then? I do not know if this is a signature of Benoit Bordier, but it is clear that no leader will have made me enjoy in just a few meals, as many dishes combining land and the sea is always risky. But Benoit was not scared, and strikes us, front, better than a catfish: a fish-calf!
Here, as often destabilizes the proposal first: Veal ... Rice in ink, haddock and lemon . That same damn inflated if one puts in place the scale and type of clientele that brews such establishments. The piece is exquisite veal, juicy, melting, condiments work. Dared, but it happens!

Very nice bottle of Pessac Leognan (obsession? No, the house wine!) Castle Smith Haut Lafitte 2003 in perfect harmony, vintage point. A real delight, and yet we're not.

Yarrow, Tonka bean, tangerine sorbet
My god it's hard to get noticed with a chocolate dessert! How ungrateful he is to go after the sinking of Michel Bras, after cromesquis Philippe Conticini, after Pepito our childhood! And then, brace yourself: it won! And without bluster! Simplicity to die, the camera chocolate is a silky, with an intensity and a long finish diabolical and flaky, caramelized to perfection, just a few milliseconds of the excessive, balanced on the edge of the majestic risk, crumbling to the divine ... hallelujah!

Taylors LBV 2001 Porto - but without folly choice of good quality.

Happy, yet we accueillîmes last service with a touch of skepticism Citrus ... Blood Orange, Lavender and Petal crispy. Maître Capello tells me that petal is masculine. The dessert is good, the frozen blood orange a bit too taken (Agar-Agar when you hold us?), Lavender is discreet, and how pistachios pralines are jogging it off, but we can not help regretting that the order of desserts has not been reversed, because we believe that the flavors here are much less heady than the chocolate that preceded our happy palace. And the agreement is still on the same port, where we would have thought maybe a demi-sec Champagne.

After all this, it can be a bit groggy from the creative whirlwind behind Benoit Bordier, who often amazes us, challenges us and sometimes, rarely, plunges us into perplexity. Some want it more slender, less convolutions. That night was in any event a great success, this new card a real promise, and this sends a real source of pleasure, we would not think for a moment to sulk.

must rush to Ville d'Avray to find the kitchen full of courage and zeal, against the current of humming docile western suburbs. We will definitely return, test Caudalie care, we escape to a true Weekend in the country a quarter of an hour from the capital, try the other tables in the summer, and with any luck, compare Eva Longoria again in a turnip golden ball!