Posts Tagged ‘restaurant’
If you plan to go to Paris and want to have a quick lunch very close to the Louvre, don’t hesitate to go to La Cordonnerie. It is a very small restaurant which provides French classical cuisine in a two-room 17th C. place which could be your house. Hugo, the chef, cooks right in front [...]
The Café Marly is one of the best located restaurants in Paris since it is inside the Louvre. You can thus enjoy one of the greatest views of Paris and one of my favorite settings too: the courtyard of the Louvre. The Café Marly belongs to the Frères Costes who are building an empire of [...]
The Alcazar is a very nice bar-restaurant located in the district of Saint-Germain. Its particularity is providing a very classical cuisine in a modern ambiance, since they have DJs, singers or music players coming every night to set fire to the restaurant! The menus are quite affordable (between 20 and 35EUR at lunch, and 40EUR [...]
Les Fables de la Fontaine is a one-Michelin-star gourmet seafood restaurant we enjoyed a lot. First of all, the location is really great because the restaurant is just in front of a lovely fountain rue Saint-Dominique, which is why it is named les Fables de la Fontaine. You can thus have a refreshing lunch or [...]
CRU – which means uncooked – mixes three concepts a beautiful ancient courtyard for mini-tapas, a bar and a restaurant. The idea: eating simple but tasty food. The courtyard is a very fresh place, great if you want to relax after a hot and stressful day. The waiters provide reasonable plates of tapas (tomato-mozarella, carpaccio [...]
The idea of having a restaurant called ‘Les Fils à Maman” comes from four young men who decided to recreate for their friends and clients the food their Mums used to cook for them when they were younger. The restaurant is located on the site of the ex-Paparrazzi, a very famous italian restaurant years ago. [...]
Located in a very calm street of the 16th District of Paris and not far away from the Arc de Triomphe, the restaurant Le Marfil is a very nice place to enjoy French modern cuisine in an absolutely not show-off restaurant. The prices a la carte are a bit expensive, but the plates are a [...]
Le Train Bleu has been a very famous restaurant since 1900 because of its location, right in the center of the Train Station Gare de Lyon, and because of its settings, composed of paintings describing the journey of the “Blue Train” (which used to link Paris to Ventimiglia in Italy). When you get to the [...]
Located in a little street not far from Les Ternes and the Arc de Triomphe, Les Fougères was an intriguing restaurant I had in mind for some weeks now. I’ve heard many comments about the restaurant and its Chef: the place was supposed to offer exceptional value for money, a different cooking style, new flavors [...]
When I read that Philippe Faure-Brac was voted the best sommelier in the world in 1992 and that the Bistrot du Sommelier relied on him to create the wine menu, I was wondering about what kind of Bistrot it would be… Super chic, posh and arrogant ? Not at all, and you will the very [...]
