The Passy neighborhood in the 16th arrondissement is not a place I often visit, but when I do, it’s lovely and charming with oodles of handsome Haussmann-style buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
A few months ago, I received a text message inviting me to check out Amourette Restaurant Passy and I replied I would visit next time I was in the 16th. Fast forward to last month when Vincent and I were invited to an art opening nearby and decided to have dinner at Amourette.
Located on a two-block long boulevard near Place Trocadero, the outside was a typical café setting with a gray and white striped awning with scalloping on the bottom and white chairs and café tables. The inside is small and intimate with about 15 tables, tastefully decorated with mint green rattan and bamboo chairs and eclectic lamps, with the ambiance of a restaurant on the upper east side of New York City.
We liked the long list of entrees and plats on the menu because many Parisian restaurants these days offer only four or five dishes in each category. For our starters, we chose Foie Gras served with mango chutney and grilled eggplant with burrata. The texture of the foie gras was smooth and velvety and the mango flavor was a nice alternative to the usual fig jam and the eggplant was artfully presented. Our mains were sea scallops’ Provençale style, which were rich and buttery in a red, peppery sauce, and Vincent had the chicken paillard, thinly pounded with a tangy lemon sauce. Dessert was outstanding, a house-made clafouti with figs, a perfect warm winter treat.
Other appealing dishes on the French and Italian menu include macaroni and cheese with ham and truffles, risotto with grilled shrimp, butternut squash soup with hazelnuts, escargots from Burgundy, pistachio, and hazelnut crème brulee, and a separate raw seafood menu with clams, oysters, lobster, and crab.
10 Boulevard Delessert, 75016
https://www.amourette-passy.fr/en/
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