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Paris Restaurants Known and Loved
Reviews and contact information for many of the best known Paris
restaurants.
Adam reviews Restaurant Paul Bocuse for A LIFE WORTH EATING
"From an educational perspective, this was an excellent meal. It was a glimpse into France’s past. This is the first restaurant I’d been to where the dishes were unabashedly traditional but the flavors exciting."
Food Snob enjoys an early Sunday lunch at
L'Ami Louis in Paris
"The cuisine here is easily described: excellent, often humble,
ingredients cooked consummately and served generously."
The Luxeat critic dines at
the famous L'Auberge de L'Ill in Alsace
"I do not doubt the talent of Marc
Haeberlin, the chef of the L'Auberge de L'Ill, but also I don't
understand why he is content to recreate the "classics" of his
father Paul and not bring the cooking to a more exciting level?"
The Luxeat critic dines on
excellent "bourgeois revisited" cooking at Les Ambassadeurs
restaurant in Paris
"I don't know a lot of chefs like
Jean-François Piège, who are so sure of themselves that they succeed
to cook delicious and memorable food without too much
experimentation. Les Ambassadeurs is proof that the modern
gastronomy can be 'high flying', without flying too far."
Andy Hayler dines at Régis et
Jacques Marcon restaurant in St-Bonnet-Le-Froid
"Chef
Régis Marcon specialises in mushrooms, which feature heavily on the
menu. We had a tasting menu (EUR 165) that reflected this. The wine
list is entirely French, with plenty of Rhône and Loire choices."
The Luxeat critic enjoys an exceptional meal at La Maison de Marc Veyrat
"My dinner in
La Maison de Marc Veyrat
last week was like a breath of
fresh air – so different from
what most of other 3 Michelin
stars in France can offer. You
just can't forget such
experience – not only because
its not cheap (dinner - 368 €
per person, breakfast – 79 € per
person), but also because
everything was delicious,
creative and, most of all,
entertaining."
Aaron
reviews the cooking of Alain Passard for A LIFE WORTH EATING
"Even at the top level, it’s rare to find a place that so
effortlessly combines truly great cooking technique with truly great
ingredients, but that’s exactly what you get at L'Arpège. I also
want to emphasize what a nice difference the staff made in our
experience. The service was courteous, welcoming and refreshingly
enthusiastic."
Andy Hayler has an unimpressive
meal at Le Petit Nice in Marseilles
"Overall, I was quite disappointed. This is an area which has
some of the best produce in the world, and indeed that could be seen
in the seafood (though not the vegetables). I found chef Gérald
Passédat’s cooking a long way off three star level today (the
restaurant received its third star on the 2008 guide) and yet the
place charges very full three star prices."
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THE WINES OF FRANCE
Alsace
Bordeaux
Burgundy
Champagne
Languedoc-Roussillon
Loire
Provence
Rhône 
REGIONS OF FRANCE
Alsace
Auvergne
Bordeaux
Brittany
Burgundy
Champagne-Ardenne
Côte d'Azur
Franche-Comté
Île-de-France
Languedoc
Loire
Nord
Normandy
Pays Basque and Midi-Pyrénées
Périgord and Quercy
(Dordogne)
Picardie
Poitou Charentes
Provence
Rhône
Savoie
A Conversation with
Alec Lobrano, the author of
HUNGRY FOR PARIS
 Alec
Lobrano is the European Correspondent for Gourmet Magazine and has
been a Paris resident for over twenty years. Terrance Gelenter
has been reading his work almost from the beginning, including his
brand new
Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants .
Review of the Pudlo Paris Guide
Jesse Kornbluth reviews the first-ever English language edition of
Gilles
Pudlowski's voluminous-yet-handy guide to 1,000 Paris restaurants, 300 wine
bars, tea shops, cafes and several hundred gourmet groceries.
Fit &
Slim: Healthy Eating and Drinking in France
Interesting and informative resources on this much-discussed topic.
You Don't Look a Day Over 699
Château Pape Clement, the oldest named in Bordeaux, harvested its
700th crop this year. But how do you celebrate a 700-year anniversary?
Three Stars and a Kingdom?
André Gayot explains why having Michelin stars can make Chefs in France happy, but not necessarily wealthy.
Great Versus Truly Exceptional Sommeliers
Restaurant critic Vedat Milor examines the key differences between
a great sommelier and the "greatest of the great", those sommeliers who are truly exceptional in nearly every respect.
Remembering Jean-Claude Vrinat
Jean-Claude Vrinat, the proprietor of Taillevent in Paris, died on Monday January 7 of lung cancer. He was 71 years old. One
of the finest
tributes to this remarkable man was penned in 2004 by the esteemed British
restaurant critic Francis Bown: "Critics should not have heroes. The judgmental faculties need to be kept pristine with gallons of vinegar, poured from the barrel marked ‘Objectivity’. Yet I simply cannot help myself. Jean-Claude Vrinat is my hero. My excuse is that this great restaurateur has maintained Taillevent as one of the very best restaurants in the world, while at the same time somehow managing to remain a paragon of modest courtesy and quiet charm. And it can not have been easy."
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