Hachis Parmentier

Hachis Parmentier. The popular dish Hachis Parmentier is named after Antoine Parmentier who was the one who convinced Louis XVI that the potato had a good taste and could be proposed to the French people during the famine. It is very similar to cottage or shepherd’s pie, consisting typically of a mixture of skinless mashed potato with finely ground meat which has been cooked before grinding.

The ground meat can be mixed throughout the mashed potato or kept as a distinct layer in the middle or bottom. Common additional ingredients and seasonings include salt, pepper, chopped onions, chopped garlic, and a generous helping of butter or meat fat. The whole dish is baked briefly at high temperature to form a golden brown crust on the top. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier)

A great suggestion for typical French cuisine and especially Hachis Parmentier is a place that carries loads of history and some mythical figures like Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway, as former clientele. This is a popular restaurant that sits on the Left Bank and has recently been the backdrop Woody Allen’s  film Midnight in Paris. It is also a place with an impressive alcohol cellar of more than 20.000 bottles, of wine, champagne and spirits. More about the restaurant