Le Makassar (named after an Indonesian city) opened its doors on Place du Théâtre de l’Empire following months of extensive building work. The architect has successfully managed to fill the space by dividing it. A lounge bar welcomes the first customers, then there’s a long dining room with a variety of ambiences on both sides of great folded curtains. Chinese shadow puppets seem to be moving on the left ...

Dear readers, may I have your attention, here is Jordan Bischoff, a young chef who will go far and in a restaurant which will soon be booked up three months in advance!  Everything here is perfect: the menu is clear, the food is refined and intelligently designed, plus the setting is exceptional. This boutique hotel is in fact one of the jewels of the Butte Montmartre, with its garden where a few tables are ...

The heart of this historic building which beats to the quiet rhythm of the l’île de la Jatte is presided over by talented chef Giovanni Perrone.  This former costume store for the Opéra de Paris has been transformed into an Italian brasserie which is a cross between a cabaret and a conservatory opening onto a sunny terrace.  The kitchen too is spacious and infused with the sunshine tastes of Puglia, r ...

Jacques and Catherine Lacipière welcome you to their beautiful, light and immaculate restaurant, decorated just as you would expect from its name. Their daily 35€ menus is a bargain and changes every day, but be sure that the quality remains constant…You might find an oxtail terrine, a poached then grilled free-range chicken, aubergines marinated in aged vinegar and honey, sea urchins in their shells, cream ...

  This restaurant has a retractable roof and the dining room is dotted with orchids and trees, producing an elegant light-filled effect. The great idea is to have divided the restaurant into two parts: a bistro and a gastronomic restaurant… Here, on the gastronomic side, the ingredients take precedence, particularly the foie gras (a speciality of the house) with honey or Sauterne, in a carpaccio with three ...

Big old hotels, they’re lovely but a bit old fashioned, a bit past their best. Here at the Royal Monceau that couldn’t be further from the truth: as you enter the lobby which also the bar, there’s good music playing and offbeat Starck interior design! La Cuisine’s dining room is huge and you are immediately struck by the height of the ceiling and the incredible size of light fittings suspended from it! Ther ...

Situated on the Champs-Elysées, surrounded by greenery, Café Lenôtre has a big terrace for the summer (noise is bearable because it’s not so close to the street). Although it’s been established for more than a century this restaurant is neither well known nor well used by Parisians, but the food is good, the setting is pleasant and comfortable and the service is generally good. The menu includes classics li ...

The first time you eat at Bon, you are impressed by the size of the restaurant and the maze of rooms and little corners, the décor too is impressive, eclectic, joyful, offbeat and luxurious at the same time! Another triumph for Starck. The menu is Asian and particularly Thai inspired, with spring rolls, beef salads, nems, crispy duck … The crab, coconut and asparagus soup starter is both magnificent and exc ...

‘Camélia’ is the perfect restaurant for a chic lunch, specially during the Summer thanks to is invigorating garden. The ‘45 minutes – 45 euros‘ menu is such an achievement: in less than an hour you are entitled to a starter + a main dish coming out of the chef’s imagination (the Michelin-star decorated Thierry Marx). It is delicate and gourmand, properly decorated but without o ...

  This hotel-restaurant is particularly fitting during spring and summer due to its terrace, profoundly calm and with views to a little garden. The apt classical cuisine we find here is eaten with relish and manages not to be tedious but light and gracefully presented. Our suggestions point to the grilled plaice fillet in orange and chicory sauce, or the beet-crusted guinea fowl steak with ‘fourme d ...

This restaurant, where the menu bears the signature of Michel Troigros, is at the same time intimate and luxurious. The menu is organized around the food’s characteristics -i.e., ‘taste universes‘- and not by starters/dishes. It is inspired by French, Italian and, maybe, Japanse flavours, according to seasons and fashions. Dish decoration is aesthetic, not falling in the pompous neither in ...

  M64 is a modern-looking and chic restaurant, whose menu consists in about fifteen season selections plus a lunch menu made out of ecological and organic gardening from the Parisian skirts. Its dishes are colorful, filled with gourmand products, yet not totally arranged in pursuit of a general scheme. Service is quick, but polite, while tables are a little too close one from the other and ‘expensive ...

While going for a lunch, or a dinner, to Bristol, you enter a whole new world and a hotel that has seen an unbelievable number, and quality, of celebrities. From the 5th Republic presidents, that come as often as they can get away with, to Woody Allen himself, who really has the habit of returning! The three-stars restaurant room was remodeled for the better at the end of 2011, being now shiny and classy. E ...