Best.
Creperie…read more
Ever.
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I like the idea of crepes, so I keep going to creperies.
I eat at creperies in the United States.
I have eaten in creperies in Brittany.
I have been to the famous creperies in Paris near Montparnasse.
I have eaten in other creperies around Paris.
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Crepes are never bad.
Crepes are generally fairly pleasant.
I am kind of a sucker for a dark flour galette with any kind of meat you like, any kind of cheese you like and a fried egg on top of it all.
I am a sucker for a light flour dessert crepe with whatever kind of jelly or marmalade you want to put in the middle.
I am usually hungry after a meal of crepes - particularly if you go with the standard quota of one savory and one sweet.
And crepes are good but not amazing.
They always get a grade of B or B Plus.
Never C or worse, but never A.
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L'Elfe Assis prides itself on being an ALT-creperie.
Tradition doesn't count for much here.
First, they have way more on the menu than just crepes.
Their meat salads are absolutely positively out of this world.
At other tables, people were being served spectacular looking carnivorous appetizers that made me wish I had gotten those too.
However, ultimately, a creperie has to be judged on the crepes.
They have a small number of standard crepes.
The rest of the "on-the-menu" crepes are combination plays you rarely see.
Like bolognaise sauce, egg, cheese, and preserved onions in cider.
Or spinach, quinoa, chicken, avocado, cranberries, caramelized hazelnuts and honey on the top.
I actually went classical with my basic ham cheese and egg galette.
Execution was simply superior.
The recipe was a standard one.
The taste was not at all a standard one.
I sat marvelling over my crepe and wondering where crepes like this had been all my life.
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And don't pretend that you don't really care about eating good crepes.
Pretending crepes don't matter to you is just "sour crepes".
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I will be bringing visitors to Paris here as one of the very few meals they get in the city.
That tells you how much respect I have for L'Elfe Assis.
Technically, L'Elfe Assis is in a suburb rather than Paris per se.
Just take the 84 bus and get out here.
You can use the bus ride to see some scenery ...
And it will be better scenery than the Eiffel Tower.