Le Petit Patrimoine

Description:

• Despite the proliferation of newer, trend-conscious restaurants along rue Colbert, this pocket-size, long-established restaurant exudes a powerful, albeit quirky and idiosyncratic, appeal. Outfitted in a rustic and old-fashioned style that might have been inspired by someone's early-20th-century grandmother, it has ceiling beams, old masonry walls, and a sense of respect for old-fashioned French aesthetics and values. Your hosts, each a distinct personality known by clients as either independent-minded or curmudgeonly, depending on their mood of the moment, will propose dishes that include a savory matelote of veal with baby vegetables, a salad of rillons (a meat byproduct made from bacon), grilled beefsteaks with goat cheese, and a torte Tourangelle composed of pastry casing filled with goat cheese and the above-mentioned rillons.

• © Frommer's 2012