Le Bec Rouge, Montparnasse, Paris, France
If you are in Paris, and you crave choucroute and ham hocks like your Alsatian grand-mere made, you want to go to Le Bec Rouge, a couple of blocks from the Montparnasse station. That’s a cold pint of Alsatian beer, too. This was probably the most beautiful plate of food I’ve yet seen here in Paris. I emphasize, was.
UPDATE: Same meal, different angle — and better focus:
Peterk says: not sure I would eat the purple stuff. are those pomme frites in the background?
M_Young says: What’s with the ‘Alsatian’ beer in the Heineken glass? As you’ve noted, the French are usually fastidious about such things.
theOtherWill says: Mmmm. One of my all-time favorites. I was pleased to see that in Alsace they sell “choucroute garnee” kits in the supermarket– basicly everything you need to throw into the pot, all shrink-wrapped together.
Is ham supposed to be purple, or are you still futzing around with wacky iPhone filters?
[Note: This one is unfutzed-with. It must be a trick of the light. -- RD]