First course was the marinated mussels and ox tongue with green sauce. Both delicious and quite vinegary. We did wines by the glass and he brought us a natural Chenin Blanc that had enough acidity to stand up to it.
Kitchen is tiny and the restaurant seats 18 for just two lunch seatings per day, Monday through Friday only. It is indeed yellow, with an eclectic mix of paintings decorating it. There were 6 diners for our noon seating (1, 2 and 3 top) but the 2 pm seating would be more full.
For mains we went with the cold roast beef and the chicken vol au vent. Wine was a natural Italian wine made of a grape I've never heard of by an Irish woman living in Piedmont.
It's not only a restaurant, but also a used bookstore, so I spent a little time browsing the shelves in the basement while digesting a bit before dessert.
I couldn't resist this 1970s reprint of a 1935 book about Scotch, and the camera company catalog also came home with us because it's just so excellent. As was another wine - he'd opened it for another customer because he'd been laying it down for a while and wanted to see how it was doing. Yum.
My partner pretty much only likes raspberry and chocolate desserts, so of course we had to get one of each. We did not, alas, have any room for the lovely looking Irish cheese plate.
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