Verjus is a light-weight and ethereal restaurant close to the Louvre that serves a seasonal tasting menu impressed by substances from their backyard exterior of Paris.
VERJUS
52 rue de Richelieu, 75001
Open Monday-Friday for dinner solely
Closed Saturday & Sunday
Reservations on-line or at +33 1 42 97 54 40
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David Lebovitz (2017) contains this amongst his Favourite Paris Eating places, praising the “ingenious and excellent delicacies by Braden Perkins that modifications day by day, and seasonally. Fastened menus characteristic a spread of substances, strategies and cultures, which all come collectively in multi-course menus that can shock and delight. There’s a informal wine bar downstairs (no reservations) that serves gentle fare, nice frites, and an intriguing collection of wines by the glass.”
Ruth Reichl (2014) says “the meals seemed beautiful, but it surely was so intelligently put collectively that I couldn’t assist concentrating extra on the best way it tasted than the way it had been put upon the plate. Chef Braden Perkins combines flavors in fascinating methods.”
Timeout (2013) praises a Scandinavian-inspired plate of trout and potatoes, calling it “the most effective of the seaside in a few memorable mouthfuls,” together with a dish of duck breast with sharp winter sauerkraut. “These had been the highlights – not every little thing sung out clearly, however that’s the licence of a tasting menu. Taken as a complete, with the well-priced wines by the bottle and glass, the easy-going, pleasant bilingual workers and the overall ambiance of quiet contentment, Verjus is a real thrill.”
Saveur (2012) says that “since Perkins revises his two dinner-only tasting menus nearly day by day (one is 4 programs, the opposite, six), his creativeness is all the time sparking. As evidenced by a winter starter of a poached egg with three sorts of grilled mushrooms (shiitake, button, and a tiny wild Japanese one) on a mattress of untamed rice with microscopic dandelion leaves and a sprig of dill, his meals could be so fragile, intimate, and self-effacing that it induces excellent, fleeting, ego-free moments of Zen pleasure.”
The New York Occasions T Journal (2012) explores Perkins’ strategy as an American chef in Paris: “People develop up with tons of various taste profiles of their heads — , within the states, one night time you eat Italian, the subsequent Chinese language, so we cook dinner from an enormous palate, and I feel we’re freer within the kitchen than the French… So the most effective American meals typically surprises with surprising conferences of tastes and textures.” They cite examples of his cooking fashion together with a dish of Mimolette cheese-filled ravioli with cauliflower, capers, chili and cocoa, adopted by roasted pork stomach and carrots cooked in carrot juice, with frisée and crumbled salted ricotta.
Bon Appétit (2012) says “Perkins sends out a produce-centric tasting menu, stuffed with dishes like grilled Basque pork stomach with semolina gnocchi, Korean-style inexperienced onion salad, and apple labneh. That is (cosmopolitan American) meals value crossing the Atlantic for.”
Figaroscope (2012) “On type d’ici le portefeuille délesté avec charme et l’appétit lesté d’une delicacies mignarde, d’un stylish clear, battant des ailes de libellule sans jamais vraiment décoller.”
Entrepreneur (2012) explains that “because of glowing articles in meals magazines, Verjus has turn out to be a must-visit for People touring to Paris, who usually make their dinner reservations quickly after shopping for aircraft tickets. That leaves little room for locals–these discriminating diners Perkins was excited to cook dinner for within the first place. But when that’s the value of success, he’ll take it. ‘Parisians don’t guide prematurely,’ he says with a shrug. ‘Everybody else does.’”
Alexander Lobrano (2011) praises the “actually good little miniature as our first course–roasted child leeks with a quail’s egg, Israeli couscous, oven-dried radicchio leaves and a scattering of ash I’d guess was comprised of the trimmed inexperienced of the leeks. This was an enchanting composition, without delay feral and really comforting.” He concludes that “this was a deeply imagined and magnificently executed meal.”
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