Restaurant Au Relais Montmartre Paris

Last weekend we had a superb lunch in Paris at the Au Relais Bistro, 48 Rue Lamarck, which is not far from la   Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre. You walk past the Montmartre vineyard which produces about 1500 bottles of wine per year and then walk down some steps near the residence in the photograph below. You turn right at the bottom of the steps and find Rue Lamarck.

It's amazing that you only have to walk a couple of hundred metres to get to a quiet place far from the crowds. Well, the crowds were missing out on some superb food. Three of us shared a Côte de Bœuf or Rib of Beef. It was full of flavour and cooked to perfection. It was some of the best beef we had eaten in quite some time.

We washed this down with a bottle of 2010 Domaine L'Hortus "Le Loup Dans La Bergerie" Vin de Pays  Rouge and the website below describes the wine perfectly. This brand named wine did not have the class of the Burgundy that we drank for aperitif the previous day but it went down quite well. In the US you can buy it for ten bucks a bottle and Nicolas in France is selling it for about 8 Eur.

The restaurant had marked up the wine considerably but it went well with such wonderful food so who I am I to complain? Especially, as I did not pay the bill.

"Le Loup Dans La Bergerie"  or "The Wolf in the Sheep Pen";  the dog would not have got much meat from the bones that I left.

The next time you are in Paris why not give Au Relais a try?

http://www.klwines.com/detail.asp?sku=1090346

http://www.restaurant-aurelais-paris18.fr/

http://www.sacre-coeur-montmartre.com/