We take our leave just after four o'clock, glancing back at the site of our afternoon's pleasure.

"At Taillevent there is some sort of magical ambience that is doubtless due to the décor and to the quality of the staff. Taillevent is something other than a restaurant. It is a place blessed by the gods. When you’re at Taillevent, you arrive, you sit down, you’re in a completely protected world. People take care of you without troubling you. You feel protected, as a child protected by his parents. You’re in a kind of bliss."

- François Cochet, quoted in A Meal Observed, p. 119