Cheap and cheerful cooking from the Shaanxi province, courtesy of Zhao, who hails from Xi’an. Get the pork-filled flatbread.
This bistro on place Sainte-Marthe was taken over by Top Chef winner Romain Tischenko in late 2011. Lunch menus at 19, 21 and 24€, dinner 42€.
Now open: Racines, version 2.0, featuring the same product-driven cooking as the original, in a Philippe Starck-designed space.
Ingredient fetishists will appreciate Sven Chartier’s reverence for product, and devotees of natural wines will love Ewan Lemoigne’s list. The ingredients may be local, but there are nordic influences at play, too, both in the look of the place and in the pristine cooking, which borders — and sometimes crosses into — austerity. Warning: complaints about the service have been circulating…
Light and bright, based on pedigreed produce, the cooking at this Menilmontant is firmly of the moment (as is the exposed brick and industrial lighting of the room).
A contemporary bistro from the Benoît Gaulthier of Le Grand Pan.
Contemporary French cooking in a polished, airy room from a couple of Grande Cascade alums, who are turning out dishes like duck foie gras with cassis gelée, a ham bouillon-based pea soup, and monkfish with gnocchi and girolles. Lunch menu, 29€; dinner, 34€; à la carte, 50ish€.
The man behind the curtain in this white-on-white, Kubrick-esque space in the new Mandarin Oriental is molecular master Thierry Marx. Lunch menu, 70€; dinner, 145€ or 180€.
If you want a taste of Gregory Marchand’s cooking without the challenge of scoring a reservation at Frenchie, this is where to go.
The menu at Le Petit Trianon is typical café and brasserie fare: Croques monsieur et madame, salads, and tartines. What’s atypical is the quality of the ingredients. Open 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day, continuously.
Chef Nicolas Castelet might be only 29, but he’s serving up plenty of nostalgia in his classic menu.
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1 May 2012
Le Fooding’s Veillées Foodstock festival and another stellar (and free!) wine tasting at Caves Augé.
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