L’Alcazar is having a second rebirth after a first revamp by Sir Terence Conran in 1998 who transitioned the place from a cabaret to a restaurant. This time it was entirely redecorated by Laura Gonzalez. She’s succeeded in making this extremely vast place with its shabby chic signature into a mix of English garden and Brazilian patio, meaning right on trend. The cuisine is also spot on: simple, refined, and fresh, but the cabaret spirit remains with offerings like Russian sturgeon caviar or a poached egg with foie gras. You may want to know what happened to La Mezzanine where people would dance so merrily. Now called Le Balcon, it is still the perfect follow-up for the evening with cocktails to die for.
She’s succeeded in making this extremely vast place with its shabby chic signature into a mix of English garden and Brazilian patio, meaning right on trend. The cuisine is also spot on: simple, refined, and fresh, but the cabaret spirit remains with offerings like Russian sturgeon caviar or a poached egg with foie gras.
You may want to know what happened to La Mezzanine where people would dance so merrily. Now called Le Balcon, it is still the perfect follow-up for the evening with cocktails to die for.
Sven Chartier is one of these young Chefs Parisians has their eyes on. His credo is to work on texture in all departments: cuisine, products, wine, all the way up to the restaurant setting; everything at saturne is a tribute to nature, starting with the name, an anagram of the word. ‘It’s true but not only’, says the Chef. ‘Saturn is also the Roman God of winegrowers and the protector of sowing seeds, so this name is highly symbolical’. Sven Chartier works together with a very well versed sommelier.
The address of Cyril Lignac used to be in the 1960s Claude Saint-Louis’s famous restaurant. Regular customers were Serge Gainsbourg, Maurince Ronet, Alain Delon or François Mitterrand.
Cyril Lignac has chosen to keep the flowered wallpaper on the walls, the antique tiled floor or the lights. On the kitchen side, we can find on the menu the great classics, of course reinterpreted by Cyril Lignac.
Oscar Wilde said that “We can resist anything but temptation“, so let’s face it in this mythical place where he was at home. The hotel’s restaurant has a special atmosphere, borrowed from a bit of nostalgia but enhanced by a hint of contemporaneity that is due to Jacques Garcia. Here our lunches or dinners become trips back in time, a thousand places from our daily lives.
And in the summer, some lucky people can have lunch or dinner in the garden, a privileged place since there are only five tables!
L’HÔTEL
13 rue des Beaux-Arts 75006 Paris
01 44 41 99 01
Tuesday thry Saturday
au Samedi de Noon – 02.30 p.m and 07.30 – 10.00 p.m
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 !
An intimate and lovely setting, a bistronomic cuisine revisiting tradition with the right twist and on top of that, a lovely team treating each customer as regulars. There are actually loads of them, as well as many foreign tourists who come back there during their Parisian stay. Booking advised.
In a beautiful dining room imagined by Jean-Michel Willmotte, one enjoys great modern and light, rotisserie-themed cuisine by Guy Savoy. Maître Albert is a ‘bistronomic’ restaurant along with Les Bouquinistes.
L’ATELIER MAITRE ALBERT
1, rue Maître Albert 75005 Paris 01 56 81 30 01
Open every days Noon – 2.30 p.m and 6.30 – 11.00 p.m
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At the rushing hours of Montparnasse, all the Great Names met here : Picasso, Giacometti, Hemingway, Kessel, Jean Cocteau, Joséphine Baker, Man Ray, Georges Braque, André Brassaï, Sonia Delaunay. La Coupole is a true monument of Montparnasse’s history, an inevitable place for many tourists looking for the atmosphere described by Hemingway in A Moveable Feast and for excellent traditional food.
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.
The founders of Fish la Boissonnerie and Cosi have once again combined talents to create a modern left-bank bistro. Simple lunch menu, no meat on Fridays (fish instead). Delightful raw produce and soups.
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
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.
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.
