Les Yachts de Paris Quai Henri IV 75004 Paris Metro Sully Morland (line 7) Area: Bastille
Dare to embark on a prestigious cruise combined with French cuisine… in the heart of Paris . Come on board the magnificent Don Juan II yacht, experience a complete change of scenery over dinner and enjoy a panoramic view of the city. One of the highlights of this unforgettable night will no doubt be Gérard Besson's cuisine, along with great comfort and service. Comfortably seated in an all brass-and-wood dining room, you will enjoy the great scenery of Paris by night. Each table is with a view, and that is without even mentioning those on the upper deck… You will glide by Notre Dame, the Louvre and Orsay museums, all the monuments along the Seine between the Concorde and île de la Cité. For this unique experience, Gérard Besson has composed a unique menu: four courses, cheese, dessert, and champagne all along…
The menu without the wine per person is 198 Euros.
Ralph's 173 boulevard Saint Germain 75006 Paris Metro Saint Germain des Près Area: Saint germain The famous American fashion designer Ralphe Lauren will open its first restaurant in France, in the district of Saint-Germain-des-Pres in Paris. The facility should open its doors to the public beginning in April.
Ralph Lauren will be opening in Paris his second restaurant, Ralph's, the first having opened in Chicago in 1999. The menu will offer quality food, we should find there include the classics of American cuisine such as burgers, steaks, of Cesar Salads, or lobsters from Maine, Maryland crabcake and New York cheesecake.
The décor style "country" should show a large outdoor terrace will have 80 seats and an interior room 50. In addition, a the new Ralph Lauren boutique, the 334th in the world, will be also opened in Paris during April and s will install in the same places.
Le Glou 101 rue Vieille du Temple 75003 Paris Metro fille du calvaire (line 8) Area: Le Marais
Here is a restaurant that completely blends into its area. Cosy and dandy, the Glou has charming, wealthy, and elegant customers from the Marais. With its apparent New-York loft aspect, we enjoy its sophisticated plates at the top of the bar chairs. Lighted up by red lamps, you will read the menu on old-school slates and will admire the rather successful US and Parisian designs mix. On the menu, rare dishes and oddities attract the eyes. Bio salmon and white tuna when it comes to fish, tartar and hamburger 100% Salers beef for meat. Like a bonus, the restaurant leads to a small Parisian park where you can go for a walk after this feast.
Depur 4 Bis Rue Saint Sauveur Paris 75002 Metro Etienne Marcel (line 4) Area: Montorgueil
If you are looking for a sexy and stylish restaurant and lounge bar serving creative French cuisine then look no further than the excellent Depur restaurant in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Situated in the cool Parisian sports club Klay, Depur is the hot new offering from the same team that brought the cool Drôle d’Endroit pour une Recontre to the French capital. Depur boasts the same style and ambience as some of New York City’s hottest lounge bars and is a haven for the young and hip of Paris. The style is fabulously retro with big comfy leather sofas, a quirky art collection and a delightful roof garden covered with little lanterns. The French menu offers an exciting choice of dishes which includes quinoa risotto with prawns and lemon or beef tartar with white truffle oil followed by desserts like rice pudding with strawberry jam or floating islands. The cocktail list is just as important as the food at Depur with the red fruit mojito, the champagne cocktail and the dry martinis coming tops. Depur is combines classic Parisian brasserie with New York cool and is one hot dining and drinking option in Paris’ 2nd.
L'ébauchoir 43-45, Rue de Cîteaux 75012 Paris Metro Reuilly Diderot (line 1 and 8) Area: Bastille
You won't need distracting from the food but there's plenty to look at while you eat in L'Ebauchoir (the sketchboard?). It's somewhat out of the way, off the main street, several minutes walk from the nearest metro, Charonne. In the 12th behind Bastille, the rue des citeaux doesn't look promising, but if you're passing, or if you're looking for an interesting, typically French cafe-bistro to take friends to, it's worth a look in.
The food is excellent. You'll find traditional French dishes such as cold meats or egg mayonnaise for starters, beef "en daube" (a rich casserole) or kidney with mashed potatoes, for mains, and creme caramel, or apple tart for dessert. As you can see, it's not great for vegetarians or for the faint-hearted. Lower budgets may flinch at the prices for such a small, seemingly low-key, out-of-the-way place: there don't seem to be any "set deals", and anything over one course with wine will probably take your bill over 100F (a tenner).
What you're paying for is the quality of the food and the atmosphere. There are VERY few tourists yet the place is usually full midday and evening. My rule of thumb is: if the locals like it, it's doing something right. The clientele varies in age and type. I like to guess who's who - couples, office-workers, manual labourers.
The other thing to look at is the mural. Done by a young, contemporary French artist called Tati Mouzo, it takes up all of one wall and depicts local life in a sort of "faux-naive" style. It's not imposing, or gaudy but it provides some extra colour.
Le 114 Faubourg Hôtel Le Bristol 112, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris Metro Miromesnil (line 9 and 13) Area: Champs Elysées
Imagined by the interior designer Daniel Patzelt and Guendalina Litta Modignani (creator of private parties), the new table of the Parisian Palace is resolutely contemporary with large dahlias (emblem of the hotel) and hot colors to dress up the walls. Located on the ground floor of the new wing of the hotel (which includes 26 rooms and suites), the Bristol brasserie offers a filtered lighting, enhanced by gold patina columns, a purple carpet and some attractive benches. In the kitchen, the young chef Eric Desbordes, introduced by Eric Fréchon, chef of the palace’s kitchens, who treats the regulars and new curious faces very well. We love the potato waffles with smoked salmon or the Bourbon vanilla millefeuille and salted caramel. New also, custom-made cooking: a small revolution in Bristol, which allows customers to choose between the grill, the steam, the plancha or the pin for large parts like the tail of monkfish. Tailor-made to address this fresh and cheerful, floral and poetic, surprising address.
L’Epi Dupin 11 Rue Dupin Paris 75006 France 01.42.22.64.56 Metro: Sevres Babylone line 12 Area: St. Germain
L’Epi Dupin is a great bargain in the 6th arrondissement. The place is cramped and the service is rushed but the quality of the food and the low prices can’t be beat. Reserve at 9:00 p.m. in order to get quality service and stay as long as you like. Set lunch is 25€ for a two-course meal (entree and plat or plat and dessert) or 34€ for a three-course meal. There is a choice of about five starters, six main courses and five desserts plus a daily cheese plate in case you would rather have cheese than dessert. There are several well-chosen wines by the glass at 7€ and a pretty decent list of reasonably-priced wines by the bottle.
La Cagouille 10 Place Constantin Brancusi Metro: Gaîté (line 13) 75014 Paris 01 43 22 09 01
Don't expect to find meat at this temple of seafood -- owner Gérard Allamandou refuses to feature it. Everything about La Cagouille is a testimonial to a modern version of the culinary arts of La Charente, the flat sandy district on the Atlantic south of Bordeaux. In a trio of oak-sheathed dining rooms, you'll sample seafood prepared as naturally as possible, with no fancy sauces or elaborate techniques. Try such dishes as fried filet of sole, grilled John Dory, or warm cockles. Red mullet might be sautéed in oil or baked in rock salt. The name derives from the regional symbol of La Charente, the sea snail, whose preparation elevates its namesake to a fine culinary art. Look for a vast assemblage of wines and cognacs.
L'epigramme 9 rue de l'Eperon, 75006 Paris Metro Odéon Area St Germain des Prés
The recently opened L'Epigramme is a pleasantly bourgeois dining room with terracotta floor tiles, wood beams, a glassed-in kitchen and comfortable chairs. Like the decor, the food doesn't aim to innovate but sticks to tried and true classics with the occasional twist. Marinated mackerel in a mustardy dressing on toasted country bread gets things off to a promising start, but the chef's skill really comes through in main courses such as perfectly seared lamb with glazed root vegetables and intense jus. It's rare to find such a high standard of cooking at this price, so be sure to book. Open noon-2.30pm, 7-11.30pm Tue-Sat; noon-2pm Sun.
KGB 25 rue des Grands Augustins 75006 Paris Metro Odeon Area: Sain Germain
Occupying an ancient Saint Germain des Pres space that most recently housed chef Jacques Cagna’s seafood bistro, William Ledeuil’s new KGB, or Kitchen Galerie Bis, is more than just an annex to his wildly popular Ze Kitchen Galerie a few doors down. For starters, the prices are lower and the service is brisker, but most importantly, he offers a different declension of the Asian influenced contemporary French bistro cooking that has made him one of the most influential chefs in Paris. Here the menu begins with hors d’oeuvres, served as two, four or six snap shots of his vivid, graphic and absolutely delicious cuisine. I loved his crispy panko-coated shrimp-and chicken croquette with piquillo ketchup, shot of white bean soup with galangal, Wagyu beef tartare with carrot-ginger jus, and mushroom-stuffed macaroni in a chlorophyll bright broth. Next, a Cubist style presentation—Ledeuil’s cooking is intentionally graphic, of capeletti, little pasta caps that look like fiddle head ferns, with a fried quail’s egg, fine slices of Mimolette cheese, green-olive tapenade and an Asian pesto sauce, then a white china casserole of slow-braised pork ribs and griddled potatoes in a hoisin-shoyu marinade. The grand finale: apple cappuccino with ginger ice cream and a gelee of mostarda di Cremona, the best dessert I’ve eaten all year, and a perfect example of Ledeuil’s imagination. “The mating of different culinary traditions is a very ancient story,” Ledeuil told me after dinner. “Olive oil was once exotic anywhere in France outside of Provence, but today it’s an essential part of the modern French pantry. I see my cooking as part of this same tradition—I exhilirate French dishes with Asian herbs and seasonings.” True, but the main reason Ledeuil’s food is so good is that his finely honed culinary technique doesn’t “fuse” these foreign ingredients into French bistro cooking, it sublimates them.
