Restaurant L'Ange 20
French Restaurant — Quartier De L Arsenal (Paris)
À propos
Nestled in the Marais, near Place des Vosges, L'Ange 20 is an intimate and warm Parisian bistro led by chef Thierry Pauli. After an international career in grand hotels, he offers creative and refined French cuisine using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Recently relocated, the establishment provides a convivial atmosphere with its magazine-clipping decorated ceiling and understated design. The menu changes regularly, highlighting reimagined traditional dishes like homemade foie gras, seven-hour lamb, and confit chicken gizzards. Service, led by Christopher, is known for being both professional and friendly. With an affordable menu (22-28€) and authentic atmosphere, L'Ange 20 is a true gastronomic gem of the neighborhood, where simplicity and quality reign supreme.
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[https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/423/original/logo.png] L'ANGE 20 44 Rue des Tournelles, 75004 Paris, France Tel.: +33 (0)1 49 96 58 39 Metro: Bastille, Saint-Paul reservation : info@lange20.com > Facebook Réservation impérative. Service de 19h30 à Minuit. * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/410/original/03.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/412/original/04.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/414/original/05.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/415/original/10.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/416/original/08.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/417/original/07.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/418/original/06.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/419/original/09.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/420/original/11.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/422/original/13.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5219/original/IMG_0982.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5220/original/IMG_0986.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5221/original/IMG_0996.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5223/original/IMG_1002.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5225/original/IMG_0985.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5536/original/IMG_0190 (2).JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5537/original/IMG_0185.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5578/original/IMG_0226.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5579/original/IMG_0228.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5580/original/IMG_0220.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5940/original/IMG_0193 (2).JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/410/original/03.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/412/original/04.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/414/original/05.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/415/original/10.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/416/original/08.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/417/original/07.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/418/original/06.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/419/original/09.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/420/original/11.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/422/original/13.jpg] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5219/original/IMG_0982.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5220/original/IMG_0986.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5221/original/IMG_0996.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5223/original/IMG_1002.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5225/original/IMG_0985.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5536/original/IMG_0190 (2).JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5537/original/IMG_0185.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5578/original/IMG_0226.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5579/original/IMG_0228.JPG] * [https://www.parismarais.com/img/medias/5580/original/IMG_0220.JPG] Une bonne adresse gourmande à tester très vite mais en réservant car les places sont rares... Foie gras maison, pommes caramélisées aux saveurs d' Amareto, fondant d'agneau... Thierry Pauli, après avoir travaillé dans les coulisses des plus grands Palaces à Londres et Paris (Royal Monceau) vous accueille en toute simplicité et cuisine devant vous, comme à la maison, mais en version bistronomique. Tout est frais, tout est maison, tout est servi avec le sourire en toute simplicité, car le maitre de maison est un grand chef qui a su rester modeste. Un petit air de province règne sur cette adresse très gourmande du Marais. Le nouveau décor du 44 rue des Tournelles est plus spacieux, et la carte encore plus surprenante. Réservez impérativement pour avoir votre table. Plus grand, plus aéré, plus joli, avec des tables classiques ou des tables hautes, plus gourmand encore et toujours aussi abordable, le nouvel ange20 vous attend à deux pas de la Place des Vosges. Accueil et service impeccable et aux petits soins par Christopher, et toute l'équipe. Notre coup de cœur et le meilleur bistro gourmand du Marais !
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Our Fifth Week in Paris, 2023: L’Ange 20, L’Archestrate, Le Hémicycle, Juveniles, La Grande Brasserie, Alliance, Café du Coin, Le Sergent Recruteur
L’Ange 20 - We were joining a niece, nephew and their three teenagers (14, 16 and 18) for dinner midweek, so we suggested L’Ange 20 near the Place de Vosges for its pleasant ambiance and menu selection that runs the gamut from escargots and foie gras to cheeseburgers and tangerine sorbet. We thought it would fit the bill and, with the help of one of the owners, it seemed like everyone got something they wanted, with the 18 year-old having his first escargots ever. And the food was reasonably good and quite affordable. The dining room has an immediate warm and cozy feel about it, with magazine articles covering the ceiling and some of the walls. It was perfect for the occasion and I would not hesitate to recommend it for a similar group. L’Archestrate - As I’ve mentioned here L’Archestrate no longer offers a choice of plates for its lunch menu. The chef picks out an entrée, plat and dessert in advance. If you want something different you must order off the carte. While the meal was quite good, without a choice the 44€ three-course lunch is a less attractive deal. And, as R pointed out, there are no amuses and no mignardises. The service was, however, delightful and super-friendly, by both the chef who served the dishes and the FOH who seated us and took our wine order. It would be helpful if you could know in advance exactly what the lunch menu was going to be. In any case R was pleased with the parsnip velouté as an entrée and wild mushrooms-gorgonzola cream-bacon as a main. I was less happy with a scallop carpaccio, which I generally love. My main was a generous portion of sliced pork chop and delicious polenta. We shared the fondant of chocolate with vanilla ice cream which was fabulous. Le Hémicycle - R was game to try lunch solo at Hémicycle last week as I was not feeling great that day. This is one of Stéphane Manigold’s new restaurants, where he has put chef Flavio Lucarini (formerly chef at Bistrot Flaubert) in charge. Warmly greeted, R was shown to nice banquette table, situated between the open kitchen and the rest of the dining room, with a good view in all directions. The restaurant is done in a very modern style but not edgy, creating a warm feeling with tables well-spaced for conversation. He ordered the three-course lunch menu at €44, a standard approach for a midday meal at a new restaurant. There were three amuse-bouches: spinach tempura, small gnocchi in a citrus broth, and shredded mushrooms and small croutons in a cream sauce. The entrée was a carpaccio of tuna hidden under a lettuce leaf with a covering of mustard seeds and a foundation sauce made from tomatillos with some fish roe. The main plat was a roasted saddle of lamb alongside broccolini and two sauces, one broccolini, pistachio, and cardamon, and the other a lamb juice reduction. Dessert was a layer of meringue topped with yogurt cream and finished on top with a citrus foam and bits of citrus. Over a café allongé they brought out a bowl filled with pine sprigs and red berries and in the center was a small, light panettone, which they ceremoniously cut in half and served with a nice, small bowl of whipped cream on the side. R said the meal was very enjoyable: the buzz was good (but not noisy), the waitstaff were casually professional and helpful, the setting was warmly modern, the food was interesting with a great balancing of flavors in all dishes that was subtly noticeable and the quality/price ratio seemed reasonable given the quality and creativity of the dishes. Given all that, Hémicycle seems certainly worth returning to. Juveniles - It was freezing cold in Paris when we entered the warm confines of the small bistrot-wine bar Juveniles on rue Richelieu. They were opened in 1987 by Tim Johnston and are now managed by his daughter and son-in-law, Margaux and Romain Roudeau. We hadn’t been there in about 20, maybe 30, years! Roudeau has lightened up the cuisine and we were very happy with our plates. The food here, of course, in not on the level of Granite or Alliance or even Géosmine, but it is well-prepared bistrot food. I loved my celery soup with mussels - a perfect starter for a cold night - followed by sea bream on black rice with beurre blanc. R started with sautéed girolles mushrooms with parmesan gnocchi in a light chicken broth. For a main he chose the braised veal au vin blanc with a parsnip purée. We shared rice pudding with a caramel sauce. What we both enjoyed about Juveniles was that the noise level was very moderate. You could easily have a conversation! While it has a reputation for being frequented by lots of Americans, I would say that somewhat less than half were Yanks, the rest French. But nobody was overly loud - there was just a nice joyous hum. La Grande Brasserie - Sunday night we joined onz for dinner at La Grande Brasserie. When we arrived at 7:30pm the restaurant was quite empty, but it filled up quickly. We all decided that we were in the mood for their roast shoulder of lamb for two (to be shared by three) served with pommes dauphinois and green salad. To balance that, onz started with the beet and feta salad, R with some escargots and I had the house-cured smoked salmon, which was light and delicious. The lamb was tender and served piping hot with crunchy skin. Very good! The potato gratin was also excellent. Only R had dessert because he wanted to try their profiteroles. Unfortunately, he was disappointed with their rendition. He said the pâte à choux had a strange taste. I think La Grande Brasserie would fit the bill for a group that wasn’t overly focused on the food, wanted a decent meal with a lot of choices and didn’t want to travel too far off the beaten track (it’s right next to Bastille). Alliance - On our last Monday we had another sensational lunch at Alliance. We chose the three-course lunch but we surely had six or seven courses. And every dish was fresh and original with superb purity of flavors from the excellent products the chef is clearly sourcing. One of very minor complaints about Alliance that I’ve had in the past is that some dishes repeat from year to year. That was not the case with our lunch. One of our favorite amuses were the rouleaux de printemps (spring rolls) one with quinoa, lemon and herbs, and one with beetroot and garlic. Another of our “non-courses” was sea urchin mixed with a mousse of grapefruit and compari and served in the sea urchin shell. Then there was the potage of pumpkin the consistency of light cream with bits of caramelized pumpkin and covered with a coffee foam to offset the sweetness. Our entrée was a beautiful pâté en croûte made of pheasant, partridge and colvert (mallard duck) served with a tomato chutney and a homemade dark bread. The main plat was chicken breast (sous vide? poached?) with a perfectly mastered vin jaune sauce. The dish was garnished with small chestnuts and a square of roasted thigh meat. Before dessert we enjoyed a lovely light celery mousse infused with fruit juice to add a little sweetness, and covering a small dice of some translucent fruit underneath. Dessert was also light: fine apple slices arranged like rings of a tree served with a lemon cream sorbet and tuiles shaped around the apple, and assorted other bits. Final thoughts? Probably the best meal of the trip. Café du Coin - Two days before we left Paris we returned to Café du Coin to meet Paul and Christian, the owners of the Peloton, where we always stop for lattes after our early morning walks. We had planned to go to Café des Deux Gares, a new restaurant (for us) that onzième had reviewed, but didn’t want to pass up a chance to go to lunch with some “locals”, even though neither Paul nor Christian is French. At Café du Coin you have a choice between two items for each course, which at 24€ for three courses always seems like a steal. I started with creamy roasted chervil roots (which tasted like a wonderful roast potato) on top of Italian straciatella cheese (made from buffalo milk) and garnished with water
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L'Ange 20 - Paris, France - The Global Adventures of MaiTai Tom and Tracy
Travels With Mai Tai Tom 2016 Vacation Restaurant Of The Year [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0188-650x286.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0188.jpgL’Ange 20 – Paris, France There were lots of great choices this year for the first ever Travels With Mai Tai Tom Vacation Restaurant Of The Year, but L’Ange 20 [http://www.lange20.com/] in Paris brought home the award with two impeccable dinners on back-to-back evenings. [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1100592-650x410.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1100592.jpgL’Ange 20 barely edged out L’Arôme in Bonnieux and Le Bacchus in Beaune, both of which were also excellent (as were many restaurants we visited on this trip, but these three were the crème de la crème). Tracy and I visited L’Ange 20 in 2014 and had intended to also dine there our last evening of that trip, but we had to cancel a day early thanks to an Air France strike causing us to take an earlier flight. [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_6976-650x488.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_6976.jpgThe restaurant has since relocated to a cool spot near the Place des Vosges. There are 36 seats and a small bar area (with a gorgeous bar) in the new location, which is charming inside giving you a fantastic Parisian experience (below two interior photos are courtesy of L’Ange 20 as is the cover, thankfully because Tracy’s iPhone suddenly wouldn’t let her take any more photos). There are also colorful pages from magazines that adorn the ceiling. This is “my idea” of the quintessential Parisian bistro. [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0191-650x397.jpg] [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0191.jpg][https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/001-434x650.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/001.jpg The chef and staff remain the same as two years ago, and our phenomenal (and funny) waiter, Christopher, has been with the chef since 2012; the assistant chef since 2011. On our first evening at L’Ange 20 on our recent trip, we sat next to a fun couple from Philadelphia who eat here every time they are in Paris. Christopher was hilarious, and I went with his recommendations even though they were a tad (well, maybe more than a tad) outside my comfort zone…. My entire meal…Meurette (quail egg poached in red wine on a bed of bacon and mushrooms)…yes, that was outside my comfort zone, and delectable…pork cheeks plus a scrumptious caramelized apple (below) on shortbread with vanilla ice cream…all garnered the coveted “Wow!” [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_6974-650x488.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_6974.jpgNot to be outdone, Tracy had the Tempura Prawns with Guacamole (“Wow”), which she had had on our last visit and remembered fondly. Tracy said the guacamole here was better than mine, which is still up for discussion (but I have to admit it was terrific guacamole). This was followed by the Guinea Fowl stuffed with Leeks on a bed of Potato Puree. Yes, yet another “Wow!” With a home run on every dish, we immediately asked (pleaded) for dinner reservations for the following evening, which was to be our last night in Paris on this trip. Fortuitously for us, the menu changed the next evening, so we were able to try more items. Again, going outside my comfort zone, Christopher suggested the salad de gesiers de volailles confits et magret de canard fume, which Christopher said was a very traditional French dish of chicken gizzards soaked in confit and then pan fried on a bed of greens with sliced smoked duck breast. The gizzards tasted like pancetta…only better…and I love pancettta. Tracy’s phone takes much better photos than my camera (of course, it could also be the photographer). [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1100599-650x488.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1100599.jpgFor my main course, I had the braised beef medallion with sage ricotta gnocchi. Every dish I consumed on these two nights was a “Wow!” I don’t think that has ever happened before. Tracy started with Duck Two Ways (that’s legal in Paris, right?), seared and thinly sliced; braised and wrapped in phyllo with a side of pureed fall vegetables. Here is L’Ange 20’s photo of a similar dish… Duo of duck: duck breast in a crust of nuts and frayed in pastilla, celery puree, sauce duck foie gras. [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/14441041_1242744665767830_1413568858384637388_n.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/14441041_1242744665767830_1413568858384637388_n.jpgThen she opted for La cassolette de champignones et escargot en feuillete (mushroom and snail fricassee in puff pastry). Yes, both “Wows!” Unfortunately we were too full to partake of dessert on this evening, which I regretted. L’Ange 20 was also nice enough to email me a couple of more food photos to me due to the fact that AT&T decided Tracy’s iPhone was full when we dined there…even though her phone showed it wasn’t. [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/4658E24E-C4E4-45A9-9F7D-CA4372BF1D5C-650x650.jpg] [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/4658E24E-C4E4-45A9-9F7D-CA4372BF1D5C.jpg][https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/14956631_1285428861499410_4723382040933515976_n-488x650.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/14956631_1285428861499410_4723382040933515976_n.jpg No matter what’s on the menu when you visit, rest assured Chef (and owner) Thierry and company will create something delicious. [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1100594-650x488.jpg] [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1100594-e1483736100432.jpg][https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_6978-488x650.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_6978.jpg We departed there on our final night convinced that L’Ange 20 would be our inaugural Travels With Mai Tai Tom’s Vacation Restaurant of the Year, and it’s an honor well-deserved. Oh, and listen to Christopher’s recommendations! [https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0109-567x650.jpg]https://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0109.jpg Félicitations à vous! L’Ange 20 44 Rue des Tournelles 75004 Paris, France Phone: + 33 1 49 96 58 39 Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12 p.m. – 2 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. – 11 p.m. www.lange20.com
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