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The following are some of my favorite Paris Top
Tables.
(Note : when calling or faxing from outside of France,
dial 33 and delete the first 0). Unless noted, all
restaurants take most major credit cards.
Prices include service but not wine.
Paris Top Tables:
PIERRE GAGNAIRE
6 rue Balzac, Paris 8.
Telephone : 01 58 36 12 50.
Fax : 01 58 36 12 51.
Email: p.gagnaire@wanadoo.fr
Web: www.pierregagnaire.com
Closed Saturday, Sunday lunch, holidays and mid-July
to mid-August. < 90 € lunch menu. A la carte,
200 to 300 €.
There is no chef more creative than Pierre Gagnaire
is: I love dining in this cozy, grown-up, grey
and white dining room, savoring Gagnaire’s
thoughtful fare. It’s never the same, but
I’ve been wowed by everything from tiny clams
fried in polenta and set on a bed of mushroom purée;
an unusual serving of grated coconut paired with
bits of cauliflower and a celery root purée.
Who else could make us collage with pleasure over
a single fat raspberry rolled in sugar?
ASTRANCE
4 rue Beethoven, Paris 16
Telephone: 01 40 50 84 40.
Fax : 01 40 50 11 45.
Closed Sunday and Monday. 70 € lunch menu,
150 € dinner menu. A la carte, 90 to 130 €.
Pascal Barbot is the hottest chef in town, and
one of the hardest tables to secure. Vegetables
come from vegetable king Joël Thiebaut, and
the chef is a pure magician in the kitchen.
LA TABLE DE JOËL ROBUCHON
16 avenue Bugeaud, Paris 16.
Telephone : 01 56 28 16 16.
Fax : 01 56 28 16 78.
Email: latabledejoelrobuchon@wanadoo.fr
Open daily. 65 to 95 €.
Cutting edge Parisian food, Robuchon at his contemporary
finest. Do try the fresh crabmeat with avocado,
anything with truffles or asparagus or langoustines,
and trust sommelier Antoine Hernandez on the wine.
GUY SAVOY
18 rue Troyon, Paris 17.
Telephone 01 43 80 40 61.
Fax : 01 46 22 43 09.
Email: reserv@guysavoy.com
Closed Saturday lunch and Sunday. 210 to 285 €.
An all-time favorite grand chef: The specialties
here are endless, and don’t leave without
sampling the dreamy artichoke soup with truffles,
and take the sommelier’s advice on the wine.
LE PRE CATELAN
Bois du Boulogne, Paris 16.
Telephone : 01 44 14 41 14.
Fax : 01 45 24 43 25.
Web: www.lenotre.fr
Closed Sunday and Monday (open in summer months).
135 € lunch menu. A la carte, 120 to 140 €.
Chef Frédéric Anton is in top form,
a Michelin two-star chef surely on his way to a
third: Try his langoustines; beets with warm Comté cheese;
or the turbot in watercress pesto. In summer, reserve
a table on the romantic garden in the Bois du Boulogne.
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