Racines is a sweet spot for Italian cuisine from chef Simone Tondo with a natural wine list inside the charming Passage des Panoramas.
RACINES
8 passage des Panoramas, 75002
Open every day for lunch & dinner
Reservations online or at +33 1 40 13 06 41
OUR PHOTOS OF RACINES
In Other Words
Time Out (2019) It seems telling that the dishes described in this early 2019 review of Racines are very, very similar to the ones offered at the end of 2019. The reviewer lauds Simone Tondo’s “spirited,” “generous” plates, but Tondon apparently hasn’t changed them in at least a year.
Le Fooding (2018) offers a review that consists mostly of strange, cartoonish hubba-hubba language about Simone Tondo, describing him as a “Sardinian devil” and gushing, “Be still, my beating heart!”
L’Express Styles (2018) observes how times have changed since the epoch of Pierre Jancou at Racines, with François Régis-Gaudry saying that in the passage des Panoramas “we can no longer count the restaurants that amaze the gallery and bait the appetite.”
Alexander Lobrano (2018) says that at Racines, “dishes display the same earnest, endearing, elegantly earthy style of suave comfort-food cooking that is Tondo at his best.”