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Drouant, the Goncourt Restaurant
The ritual has remained unchanged forever (well, since 1914 anyway): The members of the Goncourt academy get together for lunch on the first floor at the beginning of November. They interrupt their meal at about 1 o’clock to announce the Goncourt prize laureate from the top of the large staircase. Then they calmly resume their meal.
| The members of the academy will dine on traditional and oh, so delectable, bourgeois dishes: pâté en croûte truffé, terrine de foie gras, pithiviers au gibier, gigot d'agneau rôti, vacherin, etc… and will pay a pittance for the meal: 0.15 Euro (15 cents) in keeping to the letter with the agreement established between Charles Drouant and the academy in 1914. |
| They, however, are the only ones accorded such privilege. You and I can go and taste the wonders prepared by 3-Star Chef Antoine Westermann and it will cost us considerably more than 15 cents, but what company we’ll be in – and that is priceless. |
| This year’s paté and game pie brought luck to Gilles Leroy for Alabama Song – the Goncourt winner for 2007. |
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| Postal Code : | 75002 |
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