Mon Loup: the new restaurant promoting farmers in Paris

After Ma Biche, here comes Mon Loup! The two friends and associates, Serge and Pascal, gave birth in February 2018 to their second gourmet address in the capital. On the menu? Local and quality products, cooked with love, for guaranteed gustatory pleasure and no fuss!

Perhaps you're already familiar with Ma Biche restaurant, which opened in 2014 in the 18th arrondissement? Four years after that opening, Serge and Pascal have decided to open a new and second baby, bigger this time but with the same leitmotiv: a love of good, local produce from passionate farmers who respect nature and theenvironment.

Serge knows what he's talking about: he spent 10 years making ethnographic films about farmers. His experience has left him with memorable encounters and a desire to pay tribute to them with this new gourmet Parisian address.

Nestled in the ever-changing Batignolles district, Mon Loup uses the same decorative elements as Ma Biche, with a restaurant designed like a grandmother's apartment. You'll find yourself in a warm and welcoming place, sublimated by beautiful old wooden furniture, antique parquet flooring, grandma's crockery, a marble bar, old black-and-white photos...

You'll feel right at home here. It has to be said that the team knows perfectly well the rules of good hospitality: smiles and good humor are the order of the day!

As far as the menu is concerned, Mon Loup follows in the footsteps of its big sister Ma Biche, offering revisited, home-cooked grandmotherly dishes- and this is the secret of their excellent cuisine - based on real good produce, certified organic or from sustainable agriculture, to offer customers the very best! At Mon Loup, "it's the recipe that adapts to the farmer and his product, not the other way round ".

The menu changes regularly, depending on what's available. The choice is limited, but simple and effective, with 4 starters, 4 main courses and 4 desserts.

On this particular day, the restaurant's starters included a homemade pork terrine and a carrot velouté with cognac emulsion, as well as an excellent perfect egg with a creamy mushroom cream.

Perfect egg with mushroom cream

For my part, I was totally seduced by the marinated mackerel (cooked according to Serge's grandmother's recipe) and the melting smoked trout (smoked on site!). A real treat and a real favorite for this first dish.

Marinated mackerel and smoked trout

We continue with the main courses: duck parmentier and salad, the unmissable Cantal home-made burger, and the delicious Aveyron sausage with gratin Dauphinois.

Aveyron sausage and gratin Dauphinois

Here again, my taste buds are delighted by the fish, with a succulent fillet of Saithe and its surprisingly delicious beet vinaigrette, which offers a perfect marriage and balance on the palate! Accompanied by roasted cabbage.

Saithe fillet with beet vinaigrette

To finish on a sweet note, there's of course the traditional café gourmand, but I finally opt for the much sought-after Crêpe Suzette. Once again, the pleasure of taste is guaranteed!

Crêpes Suzette

As for my sidekick, he opts for the apple compote sublimated by a gourmet salted butter caramel, all served in grandma's jar.

Apple compote and salted butter caramel

And for those in a hurry, Mon Loup offers a lunchtime main course/dessert menu at €12, dispatched in 20 minutes!

As for the wines, Mon Loup uses organic, biodynamic and sustainable winemakers such as Paul Vendran, the Saurel family, the Jullien family, the Soard brothers and cousin Frédéric Guintrand. A word of advice: if you like red wines with character, try the Mon Loup du Minervois cuvée.

The best part? La Tannière Mon Loup. To be discovered very soon, and adjoining the restaurant, this place will offer customers and fans of good produce the chance to order their basket of vegetables grown by Stéphane Desmont, but also to buy products directly from the farmers (organic wines and spirits, dried vegetables and cereals in bulk, chocolate, coffee...) or simply those made by the Mon Loup team (terrines, rillettes and other smoked fish...). There will also be a tasting corner.

In short, to push open the doors of Mon Loup is to take a culinary journey to the heart of our beautiful French regions and (re)discover the richness of our terroir through generous, honest and gourmet dishes the likes of which we'd love to enjoy more often!

Practical info:
Mon Loup
114, rue La Condamine, 75017 Paris
Opening hours: Lunch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday / Brunch Sunday, 12pm to 5pm / Happy Hour 5pm to 8pm
Lunch and dinner prices : Starters from €5 to €11 / Main courses from €11.50 to €27 / Desserts from €5.50 to €9
Menu Express Le Midi : : 12,5€ starter/main course or main course/dessert Tapas / Mezze / Antipasti from 3€ to 8€.
Tel: 09 51 55 24 29
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Please note that it's been over 4 years since our last visit, so the place and experience may have changed.