Ok let’s be honest, you need to come here with a sizeable budget, let’s say 50 euros in order to truly enjoy it, but it’s an experience and it’s worth it. I recommend that you go on a little initiatory journey and to let Giovanni guide you, the more different wines you taste the better; because just like a shawman ( yes this seems a little excessive but you’ll see) Giovanni guides you in your tasting, he builds it as he would a menu.
Ok so you’re going to get annoyed, and think: » what? all these wine pictures and there’s not even a comment! », don’t stress out too much, because it’s obviously what I’m going to do 🙂
Firstly this column is the synthesis of two meals, secondly I don’t write down my thoughts in a little notebook at the time ( not my thing), thirdly, there is no thirdly, oh yeah, I hope that you wont blame me. Other than that, it’s the same price.
The first time that I came here, I was drinking the Prosecco shown above at the counter waiting for a friend and talking with the Prosecco’s producer when suddenly Giovanni prepared for us these slices of bread with mushrooms and ham.
A nice charcuterie plate and in the middle a little carpaccio
And that, was to go with the rest, Giovanni asked me for an adjective to describe the wine that we wanted to drink, I said: « fearsome ».
This one had a taste of drunken cherry, it tingled in the beginning but it wasn’t any less flavouful for it, for that matter at Giovanni’s, like at Mauro’s, they wont hesitate to serve you « imperfect » wines if we refer ourselves to the manual but who in their imbalance, their smooth anomaly have a crazy poetry, a life of their own.
This wine comes from the north-east of Sicily, in the North of Etna.
Rapini dish
Rapini is similar to brocoli, to cabbage and resembles spinach or chard once cooked, and many other members of the cruciferous family.
Here we’re in the Friuli very close to Slovenia.
Everyone is unanimous about Nino Barraco’s wines, more and more restaurants in Paris cannot get enough.
Ok so we didn’t gulp down all of this, but it gives you an idea of the wines that we find here.
Warm bass carpaccio
Scallops, finally scallops that I like in Paris: sliced in two and no frozen chunks covered in cream and a plus the arugula was seasoned beautifully
A very original tartare served warm with a multitude of fresh diced up vegetables!
Veal, polenta, rapini
This one with the cider colour is one of the ones that I liked the most but of course here I don’t have the reference, I’ll have it for you quick.
The Porta del Vento, is a Sicilian wine, south west of the island, windy, facing Tunisia.
A Nero d’Avola rich in flavour and fruity that calls out the smell of the open sea.
That, is 100% a Garganega, a white that is found in the north of Italy. It’s the cheapest, but this 2012 has some good things to say. I drank it one afternoon while I was eating a chocolate tart.
For my entrée I had red mullets, well done but I told Giovanni that the presentation and the sauce between the different ingredients could be improved.
The person I was with took the italian sausage
As we can see, they’re good home-cooked ingredients and served with no pretense.
A nice cheese plate
The « baba à l’orange »
Beautiful, I’m a baba specialist and this one did it for me!
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