P'tit Deux, the little bodega that honors Basque croquetas and taloas

It only took a year for Tiphaine Mollard and Romain Casas to inaugurate their second address in Paris's 11th arrondissement, a stone's throw from their first restaurant, Deux. Located just across the street from their first restaurant, which quickly won the Ecotable label, P'tit Deux is the perfect extension of the former, with a more relaxed and minimalist atmosphere.

While Chez Deux's cuisine focuses on regional dishes , particularly from the Savoie and Béarn regions where the young owners grew up, P'tit Deux offers bodega-style platters of charcuterie and goodies to spread, and in the glasses, French wines from small producers that are well worth the detour, craft beers and cocktails that highlight tricolored spirits, sometimes too long forgotten at the top of their mountains, such as génépi (with apple juice, tonic and cinnamon) or Armagnac (with bitters, ginger beer and lime).

The common thread running through these two addresses is their meticulous sourcing of the finest products, whether for eating or drinking. Seated at the counter or at one of the high tables, the tapas come thick and fast: boards of cured meats from Louis Ospital and mature cheeses from Beñat (10€-20€), pea and broccoli guacamole spiced with mint, excellent tarama with smoked Béarn chili (12€), or tortilla and tomato-garlic coulis (8€). No doubt about it, the South-West is not far away!

P'tit Deux has chosen to focus on one of the region's most iconic dishes: croquetas, available in a range of particularly naughty recipes. These include the octopus, tomato confit and Xipister croquetas; the beef gor'ion and Ossau Irraty croquetas; the country ham and Beaufort croquetas; and the croquetas of the month, our favorite, topped with potatoes, onions, Abondance and Espelette pepper. Half a dozen, please!

Of course, the price may be prohibitive for some (count €3 for a croquetas), but they can be savored as unique, comforting morsels to accompany a good glass of wine with friends. Those with a sweet tooth will be delighted by the desserts on offer - chocolate mousse and pine cream, baba with Chartreuse or Armagnac - but for our part, we had no room left, as the boards were served very generously.

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And P'tit Deux has recently unveiled a new street-food offering for lunch, to be eaten on site on the large sunny terrace, or on the go, to take away: taloas! Originally from the Netherlands, taloas are corn cakes with a unique texture, revisited by Tiphaine Mollard and Romain Casas with a Béarn-Savoyard sauce.

Available at affordable prices (€11.50 per taloa, €14.50 for taloa+side), we're sure to fall for the Basco-Savoyard taloa with its lightly spiced xistora sausage, enveloping cream of plenty, zucchini strips, arugula and guindillas (the famous little green peppers from the Basque region); but also for the shredded chicken taloa, with Padron peppers, homemade carrot caviar, sucrine and a lightly spiced Béarn chili cream.

P'tit Deux has even thought of vegetarians, with a basil-scented pea guacamole taloa, topped with mozzarella, tomato confit and arugula seasoned with smoked salt. And to make you feel even more like you're in the sunny South-West of France, you can't go wrong with patatas bravas topped with a secret sauce - far from it!

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