Restaurant Le Train Blue (The Blue Train).
March 9, 2009 by Oleg Maksimovich
This wonderful restaurant
” Blue Train “ is located in the Gare de Lyon is a luxurious gastronomic jewel.
Created originally to entertain visitors to the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900, The Blue Train is one of the most beautiful remains of the Belle Époque, can be admired as much for its sumptuous decor by the charm of her wonderful cooking .
This monument
railway, designed by architect Marius Toudoire, has a facade 100 meters long and decorated with allegorical sculptures of a tower 64 meters high with a clock.
buffet, called Le Train Bleu, is built like a huge rectangular room with a monumental ceiling richly decorated with caryatids, their sirens Rococo, its golden, its mirrors and its 41 fresh evocative painters of the 30 most beautiful France through PLM: a view of Mont Blanc, Antibes, the old port of Marseilles, Lac du Bourget, and so on.
Louise de Vilmorin
wrote “There is no more beautiful than the restaurant Lyon Station!
detail, the Blue Train is composed of the Golden Hall of 18.50 meters long and 11 meters high, which takes its name from its walls covered by stucco and gilded the Great Hall, with a length of 26 meters. For peace of mind knowing there are also eager to two smaller rooms: the Chamber of Tunisia and Algeria Hall, decorated with geometric landscapes and Arab East, two very popular places for business lunches.
After being nearly destroyed the station after the Second World War, Le Train Bleu in 1972 was included in the Inventory of Historical Monuments by the influence of filmmaker René Clair and former president of SNCF, Louis Armand.
However, the Blue Train is also a brewery and has provided its customers “Here, no emulsions, the kitchen is traditional and generously shared with candor.”
For 50 years, Chef Jean-Pierre Hocquet, who studied at the Intercontinental Hotel and the Plaza Athénée is a wise rebel: “The jet-set-Gourmet media is not my cup of tea!” < /p>
Over five years, its mission has been to lead a team of 110 people. Le Train Blue is filled almost 600 days with an average expenditure of € 75.00 (U.S. $ 95.00). You will be asked to each customer is asked: How long have you for lunch or dinner? This requires great flexibility. Menu from € 52.00 TGV is done in 45 minutes and consists of a dish of foie gras of the house, a tartar of beef fried with fresh coffee.
Using only the freshest ingredients and a preparation in the form of pure respect for tradition, Jean-Pierre Hocquet provides fertile ground for cooking a food fetish, which remains, for many years, the roast leg of lamb with the gratin Dauphinois (the dolphins). Everything is decided in this stretch of rail by the maitre of the restaurant, which no longer exists elsewhere. It is truly a different era.
Other classics: crisp pastry pork leg (cooked boneless) with sausage and horns and, especially, breast of veal “left in the oven to the plate and caramelised, served with winter vegetables, a rich dish and it deserves a smooth ride!
But what should not miss if you go to eat at the Blue Train is the traditional “baba au rhum”: The butler brings him, cutting in two, with asparagus and a bottle of rum over the pot of cream on the table . Good service to the old unequaled in Paris
