Eating in Paris: Au Fil des Saisons

While Xtino and Elena were here for the holidays, we were looking for a restaurant that was moderately priced and delicious, not an easy thing to do in this town. For us, moderately priced means no more than 40ish euros for a three course prix fixe menu. We found Au Fil des Saisons and made a reservation. They offer a 33 euro prix fixe menu with a ton of delicious choices on it, including the best confit de canard I've eaten in France. A word of caution: they use foie gras as a garnish! It came on top of my appetizer and my main course, not that this is a problem. Au contraire.




The best way to make brussels sprouts delicious: serve them with a light broth, split in half and put a big hunk of seared foie gras on top. This dish was magical. The best part of it was that it kept changing as you ate it because the foie gras slowly rendered itself into the broth. Thus, at the end of eating the sprouts and the foie, you were left with this incredible foie gras broth perfect for bread dipping.

The dish being consumed.


Another slab of foie gras on top of braised pork with lentils. Also quite good.



TOTAL PERFECTION: crispy, sexy skin and the requisite slab of foie gras.

The wine list was totally reasonable and the desserts were great. This place is a rare Paris find.

• 6 rue des Fontaines du Temple / 75003 Paris
• Temple ou Arts et Metiers
• 01 42 74 16 60
• monday to friday (lunch and dinner) and saturday dinner