Pluto is technically a museum café, given its location within the Lafayette Anticipations gallery in the heart of the Marais. But to describe it as such seems almost criminal, given the delicious creativity coming out of Chef Thomas Coupeau’s kitchen.
Category: Restaurant Reviews
PleinCoeur Deserves the Accolades
If you stick to the true pâtisseries at this Batignolles pastry shop, from award-winning, palace hotel pastry chef Maxime Frédéric, it’s hard to go wrong.
Le Tout-Paris Offers Good Food and Some of Paris’ Most Amazing Views
Le Tout-Paris retains some of the coldness of a hotel restaurant, which means that while I liked it – a lot –, I did not quite fall in love. While the food here is quite nice, the ambiance, with its technicolor décor, does not scream Michelin Guide. If I return, it will be to sit on the terrace in fair weather to enjoy one of Frédéric’s pastries and the majestic views.
A l’Épi d’Or is a Fine, Expensive Restaurant Masquerading as a Bistro
A l’Epi d’Or’s prices merit a better mastery of its food, but the ballet of service and beautiful dining room may well make it worth a stop.
Le Fumoir is an Unsung Lunchtime Destination Steps from the Louvre
This excellent-value prix fixe restaurant overlooking the back end of the Louvre offers delicious, creative, slightly lighter French-Swedish fare, served by efficient and smiling servers in a gorgeous dining room. In short: I’ve found you the perfect lunchtime destination in central Paris.
Bontemps’ Secret Garden is a Luxe Pastry Haven without the Lines
This lovely tea salon still feels a bit like a secret – and the pastries are positively divine.
Eels Marries Daring and Delicious on its Generous Tasting Menu
This innovative fine dining restaurant in the 10th absolutely conquered both my palate and heart with its creativity and generosity.
Mille et Un Delivers on the Black Sesame Promise
Social media has brought some massive changes to the way that we conceive of food. Birthday cakes are taller. Cheese pull is cheesier and pullier. And the eye-catching colors of matcha, pistachio, and black sesame dominate. But at least when it comes to the latter, Mille et Un is delivering substance as well as style. In this 6th arrondissement pastry shop just steps from the Bon Marché, Seo Yongsang is showcasing a marriage of French technique and Korean flavors with aplomb.
Le Bon Georges’ Steak-Frites May Be One of Paris’ Best – Emphasis on the Frites
The steak-frites here costs 74 euros, but I recommend you save up and dig in.
Amarante is an Under-the-Radar Bistro Gem
Read any “best bistros in Paris” list, and you’re likely to find the same frequent fliers: Bistrot Paul Bert, Bistrot des Tournelles, Le Bon Georges, La Bourse et la Vie… And while…