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.
https://www.germanopratines.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Cafè-de-Flore.jpg296400Hélènehttps://www.germanopratines.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/logo-germanopratines-3-1030x221.pngHélène2016-04-04 19:11:052023-06-18 15:11:48CAFE DE FLORE
This is the goto Thai Restaurant for everybody who is anybody in Paris! Thiou’s refined and creative cuisine, his innovative associations and famous ‘Crying Tiger’ made the place notorious.
A mythical an unmissable venue that concentrates all the essence of Saint-Germain. There, one sips a glass of champagne or a mojito at the bar then dine with the heady scent of lilacs and the sound of piano jazz in the spring.
Enter the kingdom of William Ledeuil, the inventor of Fusion Food. This renowned chef loves to find new ways to constantly stimulate our taste buds by creating genius and one-of-a-kind associations without using salt, flour and butter like one traditionally would. Yuzu, ginger, guava, lemongrass, sesame and wasabi are the condiments that titillate our palates with the taste of this boundless gastronomy. A truly unique experience.
ZE KITCHEN GALERIE
4 rue des Grands Augustins 75006 Paris
01 44 32 00 30
Monday – Friday : Noon – 2.30 p.m and 7.00 – 11.00 p.m and Saturday night
A bit of North American gastronomy in a chic and cozy decor or on the magnificent patio when the weather is nice. We taste a lobster from Maine or a crab from Maryland, we eat a good hotdog, an organic burger or a steak from Colorado to finish with a cheese cake. Without forgetting the tradition of the doggy bag when leaving !
This is one of the favorite bistro addresses of Germanopratin people. After Fish, la Boissonnerie, Cosi and Freddy’s, the American Juan Sanchez and the New Zealander Drew Harré wanted to create, still in Saint-Germain, a place dedicated to healthy and seasonal cuisine, with many raw foods, fish and seafood and little meat. Soups, gazpachos, tartares, carpaccios and other ceviches are therefore in the spotlight. Eric Trochon, Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2011, and his team, concoct all this in front of us, in the kitchen open to the room.
SEMILLA
54 rue de Seine 75006 Paris 01 43 54 34 50
Open every day : noon – 2.30 p.m and 7.00 – 10.45 p.m snack : 2.00 p.m – 7.00 p.m brunch : every sunday, noon – 4.00 p.m
In a zen and warm decor, traditional Japanese cuisine concocted by Chef Naoto Masumoto. On the menu, Ingen Bainiku Ae, crunchy green beans with pieces of Japanese plum scallops, Goma Tofu, cold sesame tofu, homemade Tsukemono, crunchy pickled vegetables, or Ohitashi vegetables marinated. Sashimi of course, but also tempuras, vegetable and shrimp fritters, or a Gyu no wafu steak, Japanese-style beef with Ponzu sauce.
But the chef’s great specialty is the Soba, buckwheat flour noodles prepared on site and which he offers hot or cold, with different accompaniments: duck breast, tempura, in soup with scallops or good again with Japanese daikon and chanterelles.
More than 300 different wines. And to accompany your wine while comfortably sat close to the fireplace, assorted iberico de bellota, truffle boiled ham, cheeses or Italian sausage are offered.
After the Kitchen Gallery, the new address of William Ledeuil adopts the same style from and the Chef still prefers cocomilk to single light cream, Thaï basil to parsley and boycotts butter, salt and flour ! To not miss under no circumstances, the “zors-d’oeuvre” specially created for KGB, to share with one, two or three friends and which are all more delicious than the others.
At Shu, the open kitchen on the room allows every guest to be present at all the preparations of the Chef Osamu Ukai. A restaurant for the real lovers of Japanese food who will enjoy a delicious feast of quail’s eggs with foie gras, miso and lotus’roots, of rice soup with ochazuké green tea, or of kushiagué, those little bites of vegetable, shellfish and fried meat, which are one of the Chef’s specialties. To accompany your meal, there is a large choice of sakés, in a glass or the bottle, in cold or hot flasks.
For almost seventy years Thoumieux has been the Brasserie of the whole Politic and Gourmet Paris. Taken over by Thierry Costes and of especially by Jean-François Piège in 2009, the typical setting of the 1930s is decorated with mirrors, red wall seats, many lightings which give the Brasserie a more rushed atmosphere. And concerning the food, still Brasserie… but reinterpreted by Sylvestre Wahid.
Located next to the Emporio Armani boutique, in a minimalist and chic decor, you can enjoy a delicious risotto here all day long, or simply a real Italian coffee. But for foodies, Massimo Mori’s cuisine is also worth taking the time to have lunch or dinner there.
