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Inaki Aizpitarte and Fred Peneau, the already successful folks behind the Chateaubriand, are the ones to thank for this floor to ceiling marble restaurant. The interior design was awarded with the Fooding 2011 Award. The place looks great, clients look great, the wine selection is top-notch, the tapas are famous… Yes you guessed correctly, the restaurant is rather expensive but that’s honestly the only reproach you could make to this very wise saturday night dinner option. And you’ll be able to tell everyone you had dinner in a restaurant designed by Rem Koolhaas ( Pritzker 2000) and Clément Blanchet. Read the rest of this entry »

Designed by Starck a few years ago, the Mama Shelter (website) is situated in the middle of the east 20th district. On the ground floor, a restaurant with simple family style dishes conceived by Alain Senderens, an enormous bar that also serves the purpose of being chichi, a brasserie, and a terrace where you might run into American poets, Japanese painters, or Latin American writers. The space is not a prisoner to design. It’s simple and functions as a cultural wink. There are several « winks » in this space, and it’s up to you to look for them and reflect on them… The prices are more than decent for a conceptual hotspot like this one (check out the menu). After the dinner, you can either go have a drink on the terrace of the hotel or cross the street and enter the mythic Flèche d’Or bar. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, that’s a ridiculously easy one. Breizh Cafe is THE place in Paris where you can eat the best crepes in town. Located 109 rue Vieille du Temple (75003), Breizh Cafe is a simple, cosy, tiny place in the Marais. The team is French and Japanese, the founder having previously launched Breizh Cafe in Tokyo ! If you want my advice, stay hungry untill the dessert, for they have an amazing collection of dessert crepes you would regret to miss. And the cafe gourmand is really… gourmand. Read the rest of this entry »

We were the luckiest guys in the world being able to try the new brunch at Hotel Particulier Montmartre last week-end. This is paradise. A beautiful garden right in the middle of Montmartre, Paris, and a precious confidential charm make this place the new hotspot in Paris. You obviously can book a table inside in the cosy ground floor but there’s nothing like a delightful brunch in a garden on a sunny day. Everything is perfectly executed, from the young, nice service crew to the flat silver or the “toile de jouy” tablecloth and cushions. Have a glimpse after the break with some pretty explicit photos! Read the rest of this entry »

Vivant is located in a former exotic bird old shop, which makes the decor splendid, with the walls and ceiling covered with beautiful antique ceramic tiles. But that’s not it all. Pierre Jancou’s most recently opened bistro on the Rue des Petites Ecuries, Paris, offers the natural foods and wines for which Jancou has become renowned after the success of La Crémerie and Racines. The place isn’t just a natural wine restaurant. It serves colorful and flavoursome dishes. Some say Vivant has a “country-kitchen vibe”. I don’t feel so. It simply has a unique comfortable bistro spirit that makes you feel at home.  Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve always been a huge fan of museum cafés and restaurants. I really like that they are really old and have a real history tightly related to the museum’s evolution through the decades or sometimes centuries. Whether they have been redesigned by famous contemporary designers or have kept their oldfashion furniture, they are always impressive places where the service is perfect and charming. The Musée d’Orsay‘s restaurant is no exception to the rule. The former restaurant of the Hôtel d’Orsay, on the first floor of the museum, is still as magnificent as it was when it opened in 1900. The sobriety of the new construction by the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte sets off the dazzling chandeliers and the painted and gilded ceilings of this dining room, listed as a Historic Monument. The chef Yann Landureau offers traditional French cuisine, interspersed with original dishes that are linked to the museum’ current events. Something you have to try ! Read the rest of this entry »