A name familiar to any Glasgow foodie worth their salt, Finnieston favourite Six by Nico serves up a themed menu that changes every six weeks.
Until December 12, guests can enjoy divine Parisian flavours at the popular restaurant, with a menu inspired by the city of romance - one that celebrates traditional French cooking techniques that head honcho Nico Simone says 'never go out of style'.
As Nico said: "There is absolutely nothing better than French cuisine for millions of people all around the world. Fine-dining restaurants abound in Paris, and the city's culinary industry is legendary."
So did the Paris menu have your sacre coer filled with a longing to be cruising down the Seine or getting lost in Montmatre?
What’s on the menu?
The six course tasting menu sees diners tuck into a French onion dish of comte foam and toasted sourdough, followed by a beef tartare topped with a cured egg Yolk, cornichon and sourdough crisp and a chestnut celoute served with celeriac, tommé agnolotti, apple and lovage.
These are followed by hake with coco bean dish of morteau sausage, saffron rouille and bouillabaisse sauce, a breast of duck dish of truffle and puy lentil fricassee, parsley root puree, crispy parsley root, preserved quince and blackberry, before the last item on the menu in the form of a baked savarin dish of orchard pear, vanilla ganache and champagne.
A vegetarian menu is also available with a Baby Beetroot dish of goats curd, bee pollen, tarragon and buttermilk, a Ratatouille Cannelloni dish of baked aubergine puree, pistou, saffron emulsion and a mushroom bourguignon of confit carrot, roscoff onion and dauphine substituting the beef tartare, hake with coco bean and Breast of Duck.
A 'From Paris With Love' aperitif cocktail of Edinburgh Gin, blackberry and lime cordial, citrus and fizz is also available, as are snacks of pomme frites covered in parmesan and truffle) and sourdough topped with whipped pork fat butter.
And the matching wines?
Accompanying the beef tartare is a Chateau St Pierre rose, while a Sebestyen Kadarka Hungarian red wine is paired with the Chestnut Veloute. The hake is served along with a Boutinot 'La Fleur Solitaire' from the Rhône valley, before the duck is accompanied by a Bordeaux red while the baked savarin is joined by a glass of Moscato Passito from Piemonte in Italy.
What’s it like?
The pomme frites starter delivered a taste which felt like the taste of every ridiculously satisfying post-clubbing chippy you've ever experienced was somehow being squeezed together into one plate.
The French onion sourdough and the beef tartare both burst with flavour and had us truly imagining ourselves on some mid afternoon meander in the Jardin du Luxembourg, the latter of which perfectly paired with an exquisite rosé.
The chestnut veloute stole the show and left a lingering, delicious taste that made us feel like we were wrapped up warm in a Yves Saint Laurent fringed poncho, while the saffron-infused hake with coco bean dish making for the perfect follow-up.
The marriage of flavours we were met with as we tucked into the breast of duck dish was otherworldly and came close to matching the veloute as our favourite of the evening, before the richness of the baked savarin and accompanying Moscato Passito rounded off everything perfectly.
How much is it?
The six course tasting menu costs £32, with matching wines costing a further £27.
The 'From Paris With Love' Aperitif cocktail of Edinburgh Gin, blackberry and lime cordial, citrus and fizz costs an additional £7.50.
The snacks of Pomme Frites and Sourdough are priced at £5 per person.
The verdict...
Six by Nico's Paris menu really does transport you to the tree-lined streets and wide boulevards of the French capital.
The team behind the Argyle Street venue have gone all out in terms of the dishes themselves and the attention from staff delivers a dining experience the likes of which you'd expect if you find down at a table on the Champs-Élysées.
Dishes of such incredible flavour that we wondered whether we had somehow travelled through time to embody the spirit of Louis XVI and were enjoying our final meal before we were departing the French throne to meet the guillotine.
Six By Nico, 1132 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8TD, 0141 337 6060
