The story
Le Baratin sits at 3 rue Jouye-Rouve in Paris (75020), and it earned a Michelin Recommended mention for 2026. The bistro also received a Le Fooding listing that year, and it works as a counter, a wine bar and a lunch table.
Le Fooding credits Raquel Carena with the kitchen, where offal is a specialty. Her evening à la carte includes Challans pigeon with sherry vinegar, calf's ruffle with capers, and kidneys in a coffee sauce. Salt cod and cod tripe ragù also appear on the menu.
The reviewer describes a mahogany bar and banquettes that have changed little since 1987. A lunch there included a garden salad with crispy pig's ears, then oxtail with carrots and turnips in broth, finished with farm-fresh fromage blanc and pineapple.
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Just like every year, we hear the insane rumor that the godmother of bistros, the queen of offal, Raquel Carena, is going to retire. And just like every other year, we breathe a sigh of relief when we push open the door to her bistro, where nothing has changed since 1987 – not the beautiful mahogany bar, not her husband Philippe’s fedora hanging on the coat rang, not the banquettes filled with devoted fans, great chefs on a pilgrimage or well-informed tourists. Not Rachel either, luckily, who is as lively as ever and not ready to hand over her apron just yet, as she proved the last time we went for lunch: a beautiful garden salad with crispy pig’s ears; tender oxtail with carrots and turnips in broth topped with a wild herb vinaigrette; before a farm-fresh fromage blanc with pineapple for dessert. Raquel recites her classics à la carte at night: Challans pigeon with sherry vinegar, calf’s ruffle with capers, salt cod and cod tripe ragù, kidneys in a coffee sauce….