{"id":20629,"date":"2022-01-26T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/non-categorise\/italian-draft\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:41:34","slug":"italian-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/chronicle\/italian-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian draft"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contrary to what you might think, it’s sometimes quite difficult to write a restaurant chronicle.<\/span> <\/strong>of a restaurant. So many factors have to be taken into account when it comes to putting the spotlight on a place and its behind-the-scenes workers. It’s true that the restaurant business has been on a roll for over a decade, but the sector continues to suffer from the never-ending vagaries of the health crisis. Even if these extraordinary times encourage complacency, how can we be fair while remaining honest?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Edouard Amoiel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Night stroll<\/h2>\n

In this winter season, it’s time to walk and discover a city you think you know by heart, having been born there. Gone are the days of public transport, welcome to the age of urban travel. On a Tuesday evening, the sounds of the city guide my steps towards the Rag\u00f9<\/a> restaurant. The new residents of this arcade – formerly known as Bistrot du Boucher – have infused it with a transalpine culinary flair. Although the decor remains unchanged (as it is listed), retaining the spirit of the halles marches and butcher shops of yesteryear, the atmosphere has everything to please. <\/p>\n

It’s a peaceful evening par excellence. Indeed, the second day of the week often reflects the harsh reality of Geneva’s restaurant scene. The atmosphere is calm, and the surge in Covid cases doesn’t help matters. Despite numerous phone calls during service, the owner of the restaurant fulfills her role as hostess with kindness and gentleness. In the kitchen, Italy dominates: antipasti, primi piatti, secondi and dolci are displayed on an impressive menu. The choices are numerous and culinarily varied. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to offer a much shorter list of suggestions? Wouldn’t it be a good idea to offer a much shorter list of suggestions, and to change the titles according to the market and the seasons? <\/p>\n

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Edouard Amoiel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Mushroom cultivation<\/h2>\n

It’s hard to avoid the vitello box, a classic Italian dish that remains harmonious and suave in keeping with tradition. Grilled octopus on purple potato pur\u00e9e, black olive paste and mint oil lives up to its name, without unleashing any passions. In the pasta<\/em> category, the risotto raises a few questions: when truffle season is in full swing, why take the risk of offering this Italian dish with summer truffles? A seasonal inconsistency. We might as well offer a plain risotto, especially when the execution is so well mastered. The cheese-stuffed cappelletti with its redundant burrata, sun-dried tomatoes and basil oil round off a dinner which, without the few details mentioned above, would undoubtedly have been able to soar to other heights. <\/strong>The Rag\u00f9 restaurant is making things harder for itself in a period that’s just as complicated, and unfortunately isn’t giving itself the chance to shine as it deserves.<\/p>\n

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Edouard Amoiel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rag\u00f9 restaurant offers appealing transalpine cuisine. In the nearby bustling Eaux-Vives district, is it enough to stand out from the crowd? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Italian draft | Restaurant | Edouard Amoiel","description":"The Rag\u00f9 restaurant offers appealing transalpine cuisine. In the nearby bustling Eaux-Vives district, is it enough to stand out from the crowd?"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_restaurants-par-lieux":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_style-de-restaurant":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[381,506,378],"restaurants-par-lieux":[],"style-de-restaurant":[],"class_list":["post-20629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronicle","tag-geneva","tag-italian","tag-restaurant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20629"},{"taxonomy":"restaurants-par-lieux","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restaurants-par-lieux?post=20629"},{"taxonomy":"style-de-restaurant","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/style-de-restaurant?post=20629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}