Since Michel Moran closed his bistro on Grzybowska, and retreated to his restaurant in the opera building, I have been looking for a nice, good, and not too fancy French bistro. A decent French treat; simple, yet very good; the one that you find on every other corner in Paris. I was hoping that L’Arc will be like that. Well, it is not.
It certainly looks like a French bistro. It feels like a French bistro. But the food that is served there did not taste like French food to me. I mean there is an attempt to make the menu look French with the oysters, snails, foie gras, etc. However, it does not taste like anything I have eaten in France. I certainly am not an expert on the various kinds or regional aspects of the French food, but what I ate at L’Arc did not resemble anything I have tasted to date. For instance, the leek cream with the Cantal cheese was good, but it was just a regular leek soup that could use some seasoning actually.
The same goes for the veal sweetbread. It was OK, with the chanterelles nicely complementing it. But, again, the overall effect was rather flat.
The pasta was too soft / overcooked, and the sauces that went with the meats uncharacteristic of any sauces I have tried in France (and the sauces are one of the essences of the French cuisine).
Thus, it is with a great disappointment that I cannot recommend this place…
http://www.larc.pl/
