Longtime Le Chateaubriand sommelier Sebastien Chatillon opened this tiny wine store in 2013. Sandwiched between Le Dauphin and Le Chateaubriand, Le Cave is a slender house and a deceptively slender idea: it sells solely no-holds-barred pure wines from outdoors of France. Count on unique glass picks starting from skin-macerated Slovenian Malvasia to Assyrtiko from Santorini. Whereas it might include much less intrinsic curiosity for guests wishing to find French wines whereas in Paris, Le Cave’s most ingenious promoting level is its surprisingly concerned plat du jour program, a rotating nightly dish for take-out solely ready within the kitchen of Le Chateaubriand. Octopus tandoori? Chakchouka(North African ragù)? We’d count on nothing much less from Inaki Aizpitarte’s thought of consolation meals. And if nothing else, Le Cave features as a comfy, well-run ready room for anybody in line for a desk at its neighbours.
Chatillon is quickly to depart for the south of France to start a winemaking mission, however will proceed to run the choice at Le Cave, aided by managing associate Paul Braillard.
Sensible info
Tackle: 129 avenue Parmentier, 75011
Nearest transport: Goncourt (11)
Hours: Closed Sunday, closed Monday
Phone: 01 48 74 65 38
Evaluations of curiosity
Aaron Ayscough (2014) “Meals is offered to-go, however no meals is on the market for consumption on premises… But a rotating solid of the store’s unique, borderline faddish wines can be found by the glass… The wines really displayed on Le Cave’s partitions are exactly the identical ones obtainable at, say… any hip Paris restaurant with a younger, curious somm who’s nonetheless handcuffed by the restricted quantity of fine non-French pure wines that make it into France.”
Vinoparis (2014) “L’originalité de Le Cave, c’est qu’on y suggest des vins nature. Oui, mais pas que. Ici, vous trouverez des vins 100% étrangers, sélectionnés par Sébastien Chatillon, le sommelier du Chateaubriand.”
Le Libération (2013) “Exit les vins traditionnels, place aux vins «propres» et étrangers chez Cave, le nouveau repère audiaresque du Chateaubriand, à Paris.”
Blouin ArtInfo (2013) “On pourra ici découvrir toute une gastronomie autant qu’une poésie de noms de lieux (Céphalonie, Santorin, Conca de Barbera, Swartland, Géorgie…), de noms de cépages (aleatico, ribolla gialla, mavrotragano, rkatsiteli, zacinjak), ainsi que des histoires fantastiques de popes qui font des vins depuis 1000 ans, de soleras de saké, de vinification en amphore ou de vins blancs faits comme des rouges.”
A Meals Story (Undated): “En un mot, des flacons de partout – hormis la France – et d’ailleurs, des découvertes, des surprises, et parfois des sidérations !”
