Des photos de J.F. Kennedy un peu partout, un bar où l’on peut dîner, des banquettes rouges en moleskine, une vraie bonne cuisine yankee et des clients de Saint-Germain des près, la synergie est bonne et le mojito encore meilleur avant le cheeseburger ! De plus les soirs d’affluence, vous pourrez revoir votre histoire américaine en attendant, grâce aux sets de table en papier sur lesquels est imprimée la liste complète de tous les présidents, de Georges Washington à Joe Biden.
The Avant-Comptoir is in some way the annex of the Comptoir du Relais, but it is also for gastronomes an essential place for an aperitif worthy of the name to share with your beloved one or with friends. The tapas are fabulous and we love this very particular atmosphere where everything happens unexpectedly around the Comptoir, in good company.
A true Parisian brasserie created a long time ago by the famous chef Michel Olivier. Today, Eric Corailler concocts a beautiful food full of rural flavors : leeks with French dressing topped with a chive mayonnaise, pig’s trotters coated with bread-crumbs, andouillette “tirée à la ficelle” or farm poultry, served with vintage wines.
Working beside Pierre Hermé for three years, Claire Damon realised that her sensitivity could become the guiding principle to produce a cake and an emotion. She went on to work at Ladurée before joining the brigade de cuisine of Le Bristol and of the Plaza Athénée and met David Granger, known to be on an endless quest for the ideal bread. Together they launched this shop mixing the best of their worlds.
Built on the remains of the Grands Augustins, the Relais Louis XIII offers a traditional and gastronomic cuisine. Chef Manuel Martinez follows the century-old principles of French gastronomy only leaving aside what appears irrelevant to him nowadays. Perfectly mastered haute cuisine.
There is a private club feel to the decoration by Christian Liaigre which is sober, elegant and as great as everything the designer creates. The menu, the numerous beautiful people and model-looking waiters all conspire to make this place ultrachic !
Alain Passard gave him the taste for magnifying vegetables and his mentor Marc Veyrat went even further by teaching him how to cook herbs, flowers and roots….Travels completed his experience. David Toutain’s recipe to blow our minds? Playing with textures, colours, twisting products, making bold associations, hinting at molecular cuisine and offering divine food and wine combinations.
This small loft with New York vibes has a lovely atmosphere and offers breakfast with pancakes, waffles and whipped cream, and hot chocolate from 10 AM, plus a real multilingual menu featuring everything we love to snack on: club sandwiches, bagels, hot-dogs, BBQ wings, salads, fish and chips…and a genuine carrot cake as the finishing touch !
The most illustrious café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It was the favourite spot of the intelligentsia of the 30’s, from Surrealists to editors, artists and filmmakers and it became the meeting point of post-war Existentialists. There gathered Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian, writers and artists such as Ernest Hemingway, Juliette Gréco Brigitte Bardot, Roman Polanski, Françoise Sagan, Romain Gary as well as the world of fashion. Nowadays the Café de Flore still caters for a subtle blend or artists, writers, intellectuals, politics and anonymous people.
44 rue du Bac 75007 Paris
01.45.44.73.73
Monday thru Saturday
Noon – 2.30 p.m and 7.00 – 11.00 p.m
This is a place imagined by Pierre Gagnaire and dedicated to the sea : fish, seafood, urchins and oysters of all kinds, cooked in a myriad of ways with only one meat dish a day. Making us feel at a famous chef’s restaurant but keeping the atmosphere simple.
Alain Ducasse and Nicolas Berger both share a passion for original tastes over extravagant ones and have selected chocolates for their purity and personality from twelve sources, meaning as many different identities and unique flavours. Each selected bean is carefully worked according to its own character and is unmixed to better reveal the identity of its producing country.
Angelina, rue de Rivoli’s iconic pastry shop has finally crossed the Seine to open a new store rue du Bac, between the rue de Varennes and the rue de Babylone. Now we can enjoy the signature Mont Blanc and Saint Honoré although we would have travelled the world to get them anyway.
