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 Restaurant David Toutain in Paris - 1 Michelin starRating: 91.
Training with big name French chefs does set you up in the world of gastronomy and David Toutain (b.1981) trained with some of the very best, like Alain Passard, Pierre Gagnaire, Marc Veyrat, and Bernard Pacaud. Add to that two internships at Andoni Luis Aduriz' Mugaritz and Paul Liebrandt's Corton in New York City (now closed) and it will be of no surprise that when Toutain returned to ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 02-05-2018READ MORE  Le Pressoir d'Argent in Bordeaux - 2 Michelin starsRating: 94.
Le Pressoir d'Argent is housed in the Intercontinental Le Grand Hotel, located on the Place de la Comédie in the historic town centre of Bordeaux. Owner of the hotel is Michel Oyahon, who bought the property in 1999. At the time, the hotel had already been closed for renovations for years and several more years were spent on extensive redesign and refurbishments before the hotel ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Bordeaux - 13-02-2018READ MORE  Maison Troisgros in Ouches - 3 Michelin starsRating: 89.
Maison Troisgros ("Troisgros") is a 4th generation family-run hotel and restaurant, originally established in Roanne, France, but since early 2017 relocated to a rather spectacular new, 17-hectare "domaine" in Ouches. The first few glimpses of this new location in the Loire countryside were shown in the Chef's Table France's Troisgros episode, a Netflix series that wa... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 22-01-2018READ MORE  Garopapilles in BordeauxRating: 89.
In 2012 Gaël Morand and Tanguy Laviale opened Garopapilles, a wine boutique cum 20-seat neo-bistro in Bordeaux. Morand is in charge of the wine, Laviale of the food. Tanguy Laviale started his chef career in Paris in the early 00's, where he attended Ferrandi culinary school. After graduation he worked in the kitchens of Christian LeSquer's Ledoyen (now run by Yannick Alleno), ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Bordeaux - 31-12-2017READ MORE  Le Cinq in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 98. Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! Fine Dining is dead, long live Fine Dining. The past five years have been truly challenging for the fine dining industry. Faced with the new economic reality that gradually set in after the financial crisis of 2008, lots of restaurants have been tinkering about with a new-style fine dining concept. Numerous restaurants relaunched with more casual concepts, a... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 27-07-2016READ MORE  l'Oustau de Baumanière in Lex-Baux-de-Provence, France (2 Michelin stars)Rating: 94.
Baumanière is a family-run hotel located in Les-Baux-de-Provence, set right in the middle of the Alpilles, a rocky mountain range in Provence. The hotel is well-known for its unique location, but it's famous for being the home of the illustrious restaurant l'Oustau de Baumanière ("l'Oustau"). The hotel and restaurant were founded in 1945 by Raymond Thuillier (... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Other - 21-06-2016READ MORE  Mirazur in Menton, France - 2 Michelin starsRating: 97.
When Mauro Colagreco (b.1976) opened his own restaurant back in 2006, the world of gastronomy was a different place altogether. El Bulli had just taken over the number 1 spot from The Fat Duck in the World's 50 Best Restaurants list; legendary French chefs Michel Bras and Marc Veyrat were still very much behind the pots in their restaurants, and things such as social media, food bloggers and... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Menton - 15-06-2016READ MORE  l'Ambroisie in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 99.
I've gone astray. When it comes to choosing food at a restaurant I've always had a preference for tasting menus. Firstly because I'm greedy, but more importantly, it will usually give you the most intense and broad experience in a restaurant; in some cases you did make that special journey after all. It also has to do with value for money and in countries such as Spain, the Netherlan... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 12-06-2016READ MORE  Neige d'Ete in Paris - 1 Michelin starRating: 88.
Pages, Neige d'Été and Nakatani: these are three of the seven new one-star restaurants in Paris, all are run by Japanese chefs, and all three are serving modern French/neo-bistro cuisine. Apart from the Michelin star these restaurants also have a minimalist, mainly white decor in common, with tablecloths by the way (are they making a comeback?!). Neige d'Été, ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 08-06-2016READ MORE  Epicure at Le Bristol (Eric Frechon) in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 98. The name Oetker is usually associated with baking products and ready-made pizzas, that go under the name Dr. Oetker, part of the Oetker Group, a 120-year-old family business in Germany. The founder of the Oetker Group was Dr. August Oetker (hence Dr. Oetker), a pharmacist from Bielefeld, Germany, who developed a baking powder in 1893 and started selling it commercially for domestic purposes.&... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 30-05-2016READ MORE  Akrame in Paris - 2 Michelin starsRating: 91. Established in 2011, Akrame in Paris' 16th arrondissement has quickly collected two Michelin stars. The first star was awarded shortly after the opening in tje 2012 guide and the second star followed in 2014 already. Akrame is the fine dining restaurant of executive chef Akrame Benallal (b. 1981), who also owns two bistro/barbeque restaurants in Paris called Atelier Vivanda, one of which is lo... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 29-01-2015READ MORE  Garance in ParisRating: 87. In 2012 l'Arpège alumni Guillaume Iskandar (chef) and Guillaume Muller (sommerlier/restaurant manager) opened Garance, a two-story restaurant in Paris' 7th arrondissement. On the ground floor there is a 4-seat kitchen counter and upstairs there is a small modern dining room and bar, which seats around 14 people.
Garance is open for lunch and dinner Monday through Friday. At lunch... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 07-01-2015READ MORE  Les Crayères in Reims - 2 Michelin starsRating: 96. Les Crayères was originally built in the early 1900s as a family home for the Marquess and Marchioness of Polignac, at the time the owners of the Pommery Champagne house. In the seventies the château was purchased by Xavier Gardinier of the Gardinier Group, who decided to convert the château into a small luxury hotel and restaurant. Renovations began in 1979, the same year that ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Reims - 07-12-2014READ MORE  Passage 53 in Paris - 2 Michelin starsRating: 93. When Japanese chef and Astrance alumnus Shinichi Sato and Guillaume Guedj, a member of the famous Paris butcher family Desnoyer, had opened Passage 53 in 2009, Michelin was quick to award a first star (in the next, 2010 guide for France) and the following year the restaurant was awarded a second star. Passage 53 is a tiny restaurant located in Paris' famous Passage des Panoramas which opened i... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 29-11-2014READ MORE  Porte 12 in ParisRating: 90. In September 2014, Porte 12 opened its doors on 12 Rue des Messageries in the 10th arrondissement in Paris, a space for many years occupied by Café Panique. Porte 12 is backed by Singapore chef André Chiang (Restaurant André, number 6 in the 2014 Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list) and the kitchen is overseen by his former sous-chef Vincent Crépel (30), who has also wo... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 12-11-2014READ MORE  l'Assiette Champenoise in Reims - 3 Michelin starsRating: 93. When l'Assiette Champenoise was awarded a third Michelin star in February 2014, it had been more than 10 years since the Champagne area had had a three-star restaurant. The last one had been Les Crayères (now two stars) during the reign of Gérard Boyer, until his retirement in 2003. l'Assiette Champenoise is a family run hotel and restaurant in Reims, France. Executive chef i... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 10-11-2014READ MORE  Le Pavillon Ledoyen in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 97. The Paris high-end dining scene has been quite tumultuous lately, including some big-name chef swaps. It all started in January 2013, when Yannick Alléno announced that he was leaving Le Meurice after ten years of service. A couple of months later, Le Meurice appointed Alain Ducasse (and his right-hand man Christophe Saintagne) as Alléno's successor. Ducasse and Saintagne had som... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 31-10-2014READ MORE  Les Prés d'Eugénie - Michel GuérardRating: 98. These days no awards ceremony (and they are plentiful) seems to be complete without a 'Lifetime Achievement Award'. Among the still active grandfathers, godfathers of French cuisine, the famous Paul Bocuse (86) is no doubt the doyen, but the name of legendary French chef Michel Guérard (81) seems surprisingly overlooked. Guérard is a man who has devoted his life to his profes... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 02-05-2014READ MORE  Le Clos du Cèdre in Beaune, France - 1 Michelin starRating: 82. Note: In 2016 guide for France Le Clos du Cèdre has lost its Michelin star
Restaurant Le Clos du Cèdre is housed in the charming, 5-star Hostellerie Le Cèdre hotel in Beaune, the wine capital of Burgundy. The hotel only recently got its 5-star rating and the recently added 5th star, which is proudly displayed on the facade of the hotel, still needs to get the patina th... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Other - 08-01-2014READ MORE  La Cote Saint Jacques in Joigny, France (3 Michelin stars)Rating: 96. La Côte Saint Jacques is a third generation family restaurant, located on the banks of the Yonne river in Joigny, Burgundy and it has been a Relais & Chateaux member since 1977. The building in which the restaurant is located also houses 32 rooms and suites, a boutique and a spa. The restaurant was originally established as an inn in 1945 by Marie Lorain, current chef-patron Jean Michel ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 24-11-2013READ MORE  Astrance in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 99. Sometimes when you look at Twitter, you would think Paris only has two three-star restaurants: Alain Passard's l'Arpège and Pascal Barbot's Astrance. Paris has 10 three-star restaurants in total, but l'Arpège and Astrance seem to be at the top of many wish lists; Astrance surely was on mine. In my experience l'Arpège is not that difficult to ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: France, 3 stars - 27-10-2013READ MORE  Le Sergent Recruteur, Paris - 1 Michelin starRating: 91. Note: Chef Antonin Bonnet left Le Sergent Recruteur in May 2015
The first thing you notice when you enter Le Sergent Recruteur is the beautiful contemporary interior, designed by the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon. A restaurant design that won him the 2013 Wallpaper Magazine 'Best Fixer-Upper' award. Le Sergent Recruteur opened in October 2012 and just five months later the restaurant w... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 20-10-2013READ MORE  Le Pré Catelan, Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 98. With a surface area of approximately 3,266 square miles, the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement in Paris is one of the largest public parcs in Europe. The famous Roland Garros tennis court is located on the edge of the 'bois'. Right in the middle, in the Pré Catelan gardens, is a rather splendid pavillion, dating back to the time of Napoleon III, in whic... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 19-09-2013READ MORE  Jean-François Piège, Paris - 2 Michelin starsRating: 95. Note: Jean-François Piège has left Thoumieux and will open his own restaurant in Paris called 'Le Grand Restaurant' in September 2015.
What do Christophe Saintagne, Jocelyn Herland and Franck Cerruti have in common, apart from the fact that you may not know who they are? If you do know there names, you will also know the answer to my question: they are three three-starred ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 15-08-2013READ MORE  L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Saint Germain, Paris - 2 Michelin starsRating: 91. Very few chefs become a global brand in their own right. Paul Bocuse, Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay come to mind. So does Joël Robuchon (b. 1945). One of the emperors of international gastronomy, he presides over a realm, studded with Michelin stars, that currently consists of establishments in nine cities: Paris, London, Las Vegas, Monaco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei and Singapore... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 09-08-2013READ MORE  l'Arpège in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 99. It needs no saying that Alain Passard is one of the greatest, active French chefs. If there is such a thing as a "Big Five" in French gastronomy, Passard certainly belongs in it, together perhaps with the likes of Alain Ducasse and Pierre Gagnaire, Michel Troisgros and Guy Savoy? He was widely regarded as the best rôtisseur in France (and, by consequence, in French eyes a... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 02-07-2013READ MORE  Guy Savoy in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 99. Guy Savoy (1953) is not a child prodigy. His rise to culinary fame has been gradual and he was almost fifty years old when Michelin bestowed on him the honour of a third star. After training at Le Lion d'Or in Genève, Troisgros in Roanne, Lasserre in Paris and L'Oasis in La Napoule, he opened his eponymous restaurant in the Rue Duret in Paris in 1980. Here, he received his first sta... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 09-06-2013READ MORE  Auberge de l'Ill, three Michelin stars in IllhaeusernRating: 96. Some Michelin-starred restaurants in France are true family businesses. Auberge de l'Il in the charming village of Illhaeusern is one of them. It is a 4th generation restaurant that has been run by the Haeberlin family for 130 years. The restaurant was established as a country inn called l'Arbre Vert in 1882 by the current patron Marc Haeberlin's great-grandparents. The original i... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 08-10-2012READ MORE  Maison Pic, three Michelin stars in ValenceRating: 96. Just like the iconic three-star restaurants Georges Blanc, Maison Troisgros and Paul Bocuse do in their respective communes, Maison Pic prominently takes its time-honoured place in the town of Valence. Maison Pic is a family run hotel and restaurant and Anne-Sophie Pic is already the fourth generation of this family to be the executive chef at the restaurant. Anne-Sophie's great-gran... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 29-08-2012READ MORE  Maison Troisgros in Roanne, 3 Michelin starsRating: 99. A few days before my visit to Maison Troisgros I read an interview with Giles Coren (the London Times' food critic) in the UK newspaper Metro. Coren was interviewed about his new book "How to Eat Out". One of the questions of the interviewer was: "What are three great myths about eating out?" Giles Coren answered as follows: "1. That the waiters spit in ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 24-07-2012READ MORE  Georges Blanc in Vonnas - 3 Michelin starsRating: 95. Georges Blanc is a family restaurant in the pretty village of Vonnas, that has held three Michelin stars since 1981. The restaurant started out as an inn in 1872 and after three generations of female chefs, Georges Blanc is the first male chef to be at the helm of the Blancs' kitchens. Georges Blanc took over from his mother Paulette in 1968. Under the reign of Georges Blanc's legendary gr... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 22-07-2012READ MORE  Flocons de Sel - France's new three-star restaurantRating: 98. France currently has 26 three-star restaurants. The latest addition to the list (in the 2012 guide) was Emmanuel Renaut's Flocons de Sel in Mégève in the French Alps. Emmanuel Renaut has trained in some of the best kitchens in Europe. After some time at Le Crillon in Paris he started working for the world-famous three-star chef Marc Veyrat at his restaurant Auberge de l'Erida... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 16-07-2012READ MORE  Pierre Gagnaire in Paris - 3 Michelin starsRating: 100. With restaurants in Paris, London, Dubai, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Moscow, Hong Kong and Seoel, Pierre Gagnaire's cuisine is present all around the world but obviously he's still most famous for his eponymous restaurant in Paris. His success story didn't start in Paris however. It was in Saint-Étienne that Pierre Gagnaire was awarded three Michelin stars in 1993. A few years ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 14-07-2012READ MORE  La Tour d'Argent - 15 quai de la Tournelle, ParisRating: 90.
La Tour d'Argent is obviously most famous for its 'Caneton Tour d'Argent' or Pressed Duck. I don't know if it's on the '101 foods to try before you die' list but if it's not, it definitely should be. After the duck is roasted, the breasts and legs are removed and then the carcass is placed in a duck press to extract the juices and blood, which are then u... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 05-07-2012READ MORE  Alain Ducasse at The Plaza Athenée - the Midas touchRating: 89. Alain Ducasse is a living legend. He is the only chef ever to have had three Michelin stars at three different restaurants in three different cities - at the same time. He achieved this unique accolade for the first time in 2005 when the then Alain Ducasse at the (Jumeirah) Essex House in New York was awarded three stars in the first Michelin guide for New York. After this restaurant had... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: France, 3 stars - 01-07-2012READ MORE  Epicure by Eric Frechon at Le Bristol - 3 Michelin starsRating: 98.
During his presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy counted Epicure restaurant (Epicure) at Hotel Le Bristol in Paris among his favourite haunts. Conveniently, the hotel is just a stone's throw away from the Elysee palace in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in the 8th arrondisement. Le Bristol is part of the Oetker hotel collection and the hotel and restaurant have re-emerged not long ago after an ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: France, 3 stars - 28-06-2012READ MORE  Paul Bocuse - La Grande CuisineRating: 96. The Bocuses had been chefs in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or since 1765 when Georges Bocuse sent his son Paul to be apprenticed at Claude Maret's Restaurant de la Soierie in Lyon in 1942. After the war, Paul continued his training at La Mère Brazier (*** at the time since 1933), La Pyramide and Lucas Carton. In 1959 he took the reigns at the family's restaurant, then named l'Au... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 17-06-2012READ MORE  l'Arnsbourg, 3 Michelin starsRating: 96. Note: Chef Jean-Georges Klein has left l'Arnsbourgh in 2014 and is set to open a new restaurant at Villa René Lalique in Alsace in September 2015.
Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey, that is Michelin's description of a three-star restaurant. Where some three-star restaurants are bang in the middle of a city, a lot of them aren't. In some cases a speci... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: France, 3 stars - 06-05-2012READ MORE |
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