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Our dish — the plate we'd order here first

Escargots Tradition

Escargots, Burgundy snails baked in the shell with the house garlic-and-parsley butter, bread for the butter. The six we'd start with.

Also on our table

  • A glass of white

L'Escargot Montorgueil

French · Parisian brasserie · escargots · Montorgueil, Paris

38 rue Montorgueil, 75001 Paris

  • Food + wine

A snail house at 38 rue Montorgueil since the 1830s, now kept by the Laporte family, who bake Burgundy snails in their own butter. The snails are why the address is famous.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the escargots

Strong evidence
  • Craft

    Burgundy snails in the house's own butter.

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  • Tradition

    The plate that has made the address famous for nearly two centuries.

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  • Local choice

    The house calls it its mythical dish.

    “ce plat mythique”

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We'd add

Our runner-up

Cuisses de grenouilles

Cuisses de grenouilles, frogs' legs, cooked the Escoffier way. The second classic, after the snails.

  • The Escoffier way
  • The 1832 house

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