Enter the Operation Dragon

Good Griffe! Enter the Operation DragonDid you know that Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon is called Operation Dragon in France? While many English-to-French movie title translations are worthy of a facepalm or two, we’re fans of a good cultural mish-mash. That’s why this week we’re celebrating the lunar New Year (gung hay fat choy, by the way) by making this week’s Hash of the Week Chinese style.

Potatoes? Chinese style? Huh?

Spuds are actually widely eaten in northern China these days, so we’re not going too far off the map by serving our hash in a tangy vinegar-chili sauce. For the meat part, we’ll stick to the Chinese New Year playbook and serve a version of “White Cut Chicken,” tender bits of ginger poached farm-raised chicken breast.

Your usual brunch favorites like our gut-busting breakfast burrito, sticky fresh-baked cinnamon rolls and the juicy honey grilled grapefruit will be there as well. You know where to go.

Brunch x Emperor Norton
@ Coutume Café
47 rue de Babylone
75007 Paris

Mº Vaneau, Sevres-Babylone, Saint-François Xavier

Served from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Saturdays & Sundays

 

Some like it hot

Hot salsa in Paris

To kick off the new year we introduced the Hash of the Week: a bowl of diced, fried potatoes mixed with a whimsical choice of meat and seasoning, topped with fried egg. The first weekend we did duck carnitas – essentially Mexican style duck confit – and immediately sold out on Saturday, prompting us to improvise with adobo chicken (a traditional Filipino style) hash for Sunday.

We made up for Saturday’s sell-out by making the much requested duck carnitas again last weekend, and enjoying the whole “taking requests” thing, we put up a poll on our Facebook page to see what the coming weekend’s hash should be. It turns out carne asada (Mexican style steak) beat out adobo chicken and Korean bibimbap, so we’ll be turning on the Latin heat in the kitchen at Coutume once again.

Speaking of heat… We got kind of tired of serving pico de gallo salsa with the (in)famous breakfast burrito day in, day out. So we’ve decided to change up the style of salsa once in a while. Last week was a blended salsa based on pasilla chilis. This week it’s… well, we’ll see.

In the meantime, we’ve noticed a lot more of you asking for the hot version of the salsas, which we spike with a decent amount of habanero peppers. Who knew Parisians could handle this stuff? We’ll continue to offer a hot n’ spicy option, and if you get the carne asada hash, feel free to ask for a dose of hot sauce. We’ll be more than happy to let you feel the burn.

Brunch x Emperor Norton
@ Coutume Café
47 rue de Babylone
75007 Paris

Mº Vaneau, Sevres-Babylone, Saint-François Xavier

Served from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Saturdays & Sundays

Bonne New Year

Bonne Année / Happy New Year

If you haven’t received our corporate greeting card for the holiday season, don’t worry.

We don’t do them.

Instead of sending out some nameless, impersonal greeting, we’re going to make sure you have a kick-ass 2012 by feeding you more delicious stuff you simply can’t otherwise get in Paris*. That’s better than a lame e-card any day.

In the last year – our first official one in business thankyouverymuch – we’ve done everything from underground supper clubs to take-out bentos to pop-ups to custom events to somehow winding up in a proper kitchen at a proper café serving the rare beast known as a proper brunch in Paris. This year we’re going to more of all that, but even bigger and better.

Well rested from our holiday time off, we’re back in the kitchen this weekend, with a new menu for our brunch at Coutume. The old standbys are still there – eggs, bacon, toast, smoked salmon, blah blah blah, as well as the Emperor Norton Honey Granola, Frittata, and Breakfast Burrito you can’t seem to get enough of. (Thank you, by the way. We’ve done so many burritos we can now roll them blindfolded.)

Kicking off 2012, we’ve added the Hash of the Week. If you don’t know what hash is – in the culinary sense – it’s typically diced potatoes with shredded bits of delicious meat and, when properly served, an egg on top. This week we’re doing duck carnitas – confit de canard with citrus and spices – with your choice of fried egg or unctuous soft-boiled egg.

To tickle your sweet tooth, we’ve carried our genuine Aussie-approved Sticky Date Pudding with butterscotch sauce from the holiday menu. And because it’s the New Year and we’re in France, we’re serving our special individual-size Azuki (red bean) and chestnut Galette des Rois.

Note: Some of the galettes contain a special fève. Find one and you’ll win a bag of Coutume coffee to take home with you!

Come on by to Coutume – 47 rue de Babylone, 7th arrondissement – between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

 

*Correction: Since we went public, we’ve noticed a number of the things we serve later appearing on Parisian menus. It’s truly flattering. Thank you, sincerely.