Wendy S.
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A fusion of an old fashioned Breton crêperie with Levantine hospitality and spiced up by flavours such as Zaatar (a spice often used to flavour Lebanese flatbread), labneh and pomegranate.
Choose to sit inside the tiny restaurant (only room for six or eight) or enjoy your crepe outside in Place d’Aligre. By day this square is home to an excellent food market and I’m sure the quality of food in restaurants and shops all around the square is influenced by this proximity.
I sat inside - alone - and was immediately made to feel welcome. It was like eating in the kitchen of good friends.
Choose the brown buckwheat (ble noir) crepes, which come out looking beautiful, like a huge chocolatey desert, or the golden wheat (froment) pancakes filled with sweet or savoury, including traditional Breton fillings like apples flambéd in calvados or go for Lebanese specialities - the La Libanaise with mint, black olives, labneh(yogurt cheese) zaatar (herbs, sumac, sesame) pomegranates, tomato and cucumber topped with a drizzle of pomegranate sauce. The blend of sweet and savoury was delicious on a warm summer evening. The aromas were gorgeous.
Savour all this deliciousness while knowing the ble noir is full of fibre and goodness, the fruit and veg is super fresh and nutritious and the eggs, or labneh will provide a healthy portion of high quality protein.
If I could give this cafe a Michelin rating it would get three roses!