This ongoing function collects the opinions, information & occasions of curiosity to those that love meals, wine & Paris. We replace weekly and manage by month. You will discover previous editions right here.
New This Week
Evaluations
Current world pizza champion pizzaiolo Giuseppe “Peppe” Cutraro (ex-Huge Mamma) has opened his first Parisian institution. Le Figaro finds Peppe Pizzeria “exemplary,” recommending the award-winning pie topped with Sicilian yellow tomato, San Daniele ham, provolone, buffalo mozzarella, toasted almonds, and fig jam.
Elsewhere, Le Figaro applauds the “three-star” poultry at Montmartre’s le Coq Rico.
Information
As of March 5, the perfect baguette in Paris may be discovered within the seventeenth arrondissement at Maison Julien, Les Saveurs de Pierre Demours. Taieb Sahal’s loaf stood out to jury members amongst 210 entries baked all through Paris. The 26-year-old successful baker, who emigrated to France from Tunisia in 2014 (a widespread story amongst current winners of the competition), would be the official bread baker of the French President for a complete 12 months. We had been fortunate sufficient to sit down on the jury of this annual contest in 2013 and detailed our expertise for the lots.
In different information, French bakers are preventing for the best to promote locals their day by day bread… day by day. The French bakery federation is taking one other look at a 1919 regulation imposing a weekly day of relaxation for bakers, with many boulangers hoping to be allowed to bake seven days every week (and thus rake in additional dough).
Earlier This Month
Evaluations
Californian chef Thomas Graham is “electrifying” the menu at le Mermoz on the Champs-Elysées, in response to Le Monde. His arrival breathes new life into the restaurant’s current evolution away from “drained” native bistro. The modern lunchtime prix fixe at all times features a vegetarian providing, and a night assortment of Scandi-accented tapas expend any waste from the day’s service. The consequence? “A gem within the gastronomic desert of the Champs-Elysées.”
After a number of months of renovations, historic Drouant reopened this fall. Now run by the Gardinier household (Taillevent) with chef Philippe Mille on the helm and a wine record from Antoine Pétrus, the brand new iteration of the restaurant stays the course “regardless of service sometimes too novice for such a legendary locale,” in response to Le Monde.
Autodidact chef Élis Bond is bringing Afro-Caribbean flavors to the ninth arrondissement with Mi Kwabo. Acknowledged as “younger expertise” by Gault & Millau in 2019, Bond approaches conventional components like manioc, plantains, and cacao with creativity and refinement. Le Figaro dubs Mi Kwabo an “audacious micro-restaurant,” whereas Restos sur le Grill goes as far as to name it “slightly miracle.”
Elsewhere, Le Figaro in the end finds the brand new Champs-Elysées location of Korean Quickly Grill wanting, dubbing it costly, chilly, and forgettable.
Information
The land of butter is now residence to Land & Monkeys, a brand new vegan bakery within the eleventh. The store from Rodolphe Landemaine, who already boasts 15 eponymous bakeries within the capital, notably peddles butter- and egg-free millefeuille, madeleines, and even croissants. An added bonus? The eco-chic store makes use of natural flours and is totally plastic-free.
That is removed from the one current nod to plant-based diners on Paris’ pastry scene. Two of the foremost macaron makers within the metropolis – Pierre Hermé and Ladurée – are rolling out vegan iterations of the well-known sandwich cookie. And since macarons are already naturally gluten-free, now these pastries actually take the cake.
Occasions
April 16: The sixth version of Goût de/Good France, a worldwide occasion celebrating French gastronomy, will deal with the richness of the Loire Valley: Sancerre, goat cheese, and extra. This occasion will embody, amongst different issues, a 200-person dinner on the Champs-Elysées made by six Loire Valley cooks. The occasion can even have fun the tenth anniversary of the French gastronomic meal’s inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage record and can highlight sustainable gastronomy.
April 16-19: At the side of the Good France Pageant, the Gourmand Artwork Pageant will carry greater than 150 culinary professionals to the Champs-Elysées for an occasion marrying meals and pictures.
April 27: Paris’ Westin Paris Vendôme will quickly play host to headcheese honchos for the Championnat du Monde de Fromage de Tête (World Headcheese Championship). First launched in 1993, the competition most not too long ago acknowledged Tokyo’s Osamu Tsukamoto with the Oreille d’Or (Golden Ear) trophy.
