La Taverne遥远西餐厅
工体西里7号
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- Has WiFi
- Family Friendly
- Has Outdoor Seats
- Editor's Picks
This favorite with the French community boasts wonderfully authentic ambiance and homestyle food. The savory crepes are delightful, but the menu has much more to offer as well, with a blackboard of daily specials that change on a daily basis. The outdoor terrace is a major draw in the summer.
Second Bite review, November, 2011
Beijing Bistro
Last year, former Le Petit Gourmand manager Axel Moreaux took over operations at La Taverne. He’s done a lot for the restaurant so far, developing a more dynamic menu and a popular ¥78 lunch set. Definitely one of the more authentic slices of France in the capital, La Taverne offers deeply traditional food, a great soundtrack of classic French tunes, French waitstaff and décor that’s far more Brittany than Beijing.
The à la carte menu is good, but Moreaux is eager to promote the blackboard menu, which features seasonal dishes that rotate on a daily basis. This is the style of a typical French family-run bistro, and adds to the overall authenticity of the restaurant. On the night we visited, the blackboard menu included a simple but tasty marinated salmon with dill (¥68), and an enormous pot au feu (¥98) beef stew that tasted rustic and home-cooked. Off the regular à la carte menu, we highly recommend the salade au fromage de chevre chaud (¥58), a large green salad topped with goat cheese toasts, made with honey, thyme and walnuts. The rotisserie chicken is one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes, and it’s an excellent deal. For ¥82, you get half of a very sizeable chicken, simply seasoned with rosemary and thyme and cooked to perfection. For now, you have to order the couscous a day in advance, but we got to sample the merguez sausage it’s made with—halal and flown in from Northern Africa—and it is truly excellent.
The crepes here—both savory and sweet—are fantastic, but the chocolate mousse (¥39) is another good dessert option. It’s classically creamy and rich, but made with the welcome addition of orange zest.
Sienna Parulis-Cook
