The menu
Written at dawn, at the Quai Saint-Antoine market.
What follows is tonight's menu. It will not survive the week — the market and the fire see to that. Allergies are welcome with a day's notice; vegetarians eat as well as anyone here.
La Braise
95 €
Seven courses, the whole table. The kitchen cooks one menu each night, for everyone — that is how a single hearth stays honest.
- 01
Bread from the dying fire
Baked overnight in the falling heat, whipped raw butter, ash salt
- 02
Leek from the embers
Buried whole, split, smoked ember oil, flaked salt
- 03
Trout over vine wood
Ardèche trout, vine-smoke beurre blanc, sorrel
- 04
Duck, char and cherry
Aged Challans duck, deep char, burnt cherry, its own fat
- 05
The day's vegetable
Whatever the market gave, straight on the grate
- 06
Raw milk tomme, fire honey
Monts du Lyonnais tomme, honey warmed at the hearth's edge
- 07
Chocolate, smoke and burnt honey
Dark chocolate, smoked cream, shards of burnt honey
Wine pairing — five glasses — 55 €
Fire-pressed juice pairing — 35 €
At the counter
Six stools face the hearth. No reservation, no tasting menu — the carte, a glass, and the heat of the fire on your face.
- Ember leek, smoked oil16 €
- Grilled blue trout, vine smoke28 €
- Aged duck for two, burnt cherry72 €
- Rib of beef, 45 days, ash butter9 €/100g
- Hearth bread, whipped butter8 €
- Chocolate, smoke, burnt honey14 €