Circonstances, the restaurant with naughty little plates to share

Circonstances is evolving. Since the start of the school year, the restaurant has been offering naughty small plates to share with guests. A successful change of direction.

It's not a new address we're proposing to you today, but rather a lovely table that, over the years and over the past decade, has been able to challenge itself in the best possible way. Open since 2013 on the corner of Rue d'Uzès and Rue Montmartre, Circonstances has been offering a new dining experience since the start of the new school year, with small plates to share and discover a multitude of flavors .

And there's plenty of flavor onCirconstances plates ! In the kitchen, chef Franck Dervin, who worked at Guy Savoy, and in the dining room, his wife, Karin Rouet; a power duo with a character as assertive and pleasant as their very, very naughty plates. As you'll have gathered, sharing and conviviality go hand in hand here.

The à la carte menu features a multitude ofsharing dishes, with a particular emphasis on choice meats and cochonnaille: crispy pig's trotter galette with celery remoulade (11€), semi-salted knuckle of pork with salsa verde and fregola sarda like risotto (9€), grilled blood sausage with spinach shoots in vinaigrette (9€), everything is definitely good about cochon.

These small plates, of which the owner recommends 3 to 4 per person, are served alongside even more generously prepared dishes, such as the beef compote and roasted wild shrimp (20€), or the roast mallard duck in crapaudine (29€).

For our part, we fell for the delicious roast quail fillets (served raised, please!; 19€), accompanied by small chanterelles, a seasonal must. And to ease our conscience, we invited a little greenery to our table, with excellent fried artichokes dipped in a spicy mayonnaise (7€) and sweet potato croquettes with ginger and homemade tahini (10€).

Two cocktails later, the Palawan (cachaça, kalamansi juice; 9€) and the Republica gin and tonic (gin, lime, wild Madagascar pepper, tonic; 9€), and we're ready to discover the more traditional desserts. Chocolate mousse, lemon tart? In the end, it's crème caramel with lime zest (8€) and baba au rhum with its airy whipped cream (9€), which we happily drown in rum from a bottle brought to our table to pour as we please.

As part of a reasoned, seasonal approach, with a desire to highlight the best of local producers, Circonstances has proved its ability to jump on the bandwagon by offering a cuisine that appeals to an ever-growing number of Parisian gourmets: dishes for sharing that allow for every kind of folly.

This test was conducted as part of a professional invitation. If your experience differs from ours, please mention it in the comments.