The Paris Update Restaurant Awards 2019
Last Year's Best 10 Restaurants
A welcome touch of Mexico La Condesa Subtle hints of Mexican flavors brilliantly enliven seasonal dishes in this love of a restaurant. Tiny place/big expectations L’Innocence Chef Anne Legrand cooks up highly refined meals in front of diners in the same … Read More
La Condesa Restaurant
A Meal Fit for Royalty
Update, January 16, 2019: On a return visit this week, La Condesa lived up to my first extremely positive impression with more creative, often stunningly good dishes, charmingly served in a handsome decor. The amuse-bouches included a small corn tostada with … Read More
Papa Poule
Homestyle, but Better
It is almost never a good idea to wander around the streets of Paris looking at menus in windows in hopes of finding a good restaurant – you usually end up with a mediocre meal. We lucked out the other … Read More
L’Innocence Restaurant
Springboard to Success
This tiny (18-cover) restaurant in the ninth arrondissement was originally the springboard for the great Daniel Rose, whose wonderful restaurant Spring, once my favorite in Paris, is now sadly closed. Although he still owns two bistros in Paris, La Bourse et … Read More
Double Dragon Restaurant
Sister Act Goes Asian
Double Dragon’s reputation – both positive and negative – preceded it. I had heard that while the food was fantastic at this new Asian restaurant, the noise levels were extreme. The first turned out to be absolutely true, and the second, … Read More
Pianovins Restaurant
Music in the Kitchen
I went to Pianovins with a food-blogger friend who had already been there, loved it and reviewed it. When he arrived, co-owner Éric Mancio – who, along with his partner, chef Michel Roncière, worked for Guy Savoy for many years – … Read More
La Traversée Restaurant
Upstairs, Downstairs: Same Good Food
Montmartre is home to many, many restaurants, but rare are those that are truly worth eating in. La Traversée, a local favorite for my friends who live in Montmartre, is a bit off the beaten track, but it’s worth the … Read More
Chez Phung
Ladies in the Kitchen
There was no room at the restaurant where I had reserved a table for two for lunch because I had screwed up the date, so my friend and I went off in search of a substitute. We didn’t have to … Read More
Baieta Restaurant
Great on the Plate, Hard on the Wallet
The restaurant Baieta, owned by young chef Julia Sedefdjian, formerly of Les Fables de la Fontaine, has already been discovered by many American visitors, judging by the number of my compatriots eating there recently. It turned out that these are Americans … Read More
Le Train Bleu
A Trip Worth Taking
The Paris restaurant with the most spectacular decor is, of course, Le Train Bleu, but its culinary credentials have gone up and down (mostly down) over the years as the restaurant sailed along, relying on its Belle Époque beauty and … Read More