La Tour d'Argent
La Tour d'Argent (Silver Tower) in Paris is a world famous restaurant. According to its own (unproven) information, it was founded in 1582 by the cook Rourteau.
The restaurant is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine near the Île de la Cité and Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral . From the dining room, the guest has a view of Paris and the Seine, which flows under the high windows of the room.
The kings Heinrich III are named as early regulars . (France) , Henry IV (France) and Louis XIV , Cardinal Richelieu and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné .
The restaurant is known for its duck dishes. The recipe for the Canard Tour d'Argent (Duck Tour d'argent) was conceived in 1890 by the then owner of the restaurant, Frédéric Delair. Great care is taken in every detail of the dish, from rearing the ducks to preparing them and serving. The sauce is prepared from duck carcass and liver with the help of a duck press on the table .
The wine cellar contains almost 440,000 bottles, which are divided into 15,000 references. Claude Terrail, the son of the landlord at the time, walled up 20,000 of the most valuable bottles in the back of the cellar in June 1940, shortly before the German occupiers marched into the open city of Paris. Soon afterwards, a personal representative of Göring came to the Tour d 'Argent to confiscate old wines, especially those from the 19th century, for Göring .
From 1933 to 1952 and from 1953 to 1996 La Tour d'Argent had three stars in the Michelin Guide , and since 2006 it has only had one.
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Footnotes
- ^ Henry T. Finck: Food and Flavor . The Century, New York 1913. pp. 216–218 ( online , accessed December 28, 2017)
- ^ Duck Tour d'Argent , on fxcuisine.com, accessed December 28, 2017
- ↑ Cognac for 25,000 euros . On December 8, 2009 from n-tv.de, accessed on December 28, 2017
- ↑ Petie Kladstrup and Donald Kladstrup: Wine & War: Bordeaux, champagne and the battle for France's greatest wealth , Velcro-Cotta.