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Intimate venue serving a market-driven, fixed-price menu of modern cuisine in minimalist surrounds.
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Reviews — 8
Nice Japanese French fusion restaurant. Wonderful patisserie ！
#110 in my Parisian Michelin Stars Challenge to try them all in a year. Follow me for the other reviews and updates.
So perfectly French, it’s Japanese.
What’s interesting here? I guess this is the perfect example of a Japanese chef establishing himself in Paris and opening a restaurant in hommage to the French cuisine.
Let’s start with the obvious. It’s a Japanese restaurant. The chef is Japanese, alone behind the bar where he works. Nearly a one man show. He is only helped by a Japanese lady that does mostly the service for some happy few. Because, there’s the counter and only two/three tables (one is taken for the service). Just like in other Japanese restaurants, the master only cooks for an handful of customers per day (when I came, he wasn’t doing lunches anymore, with some exceptions for special groups). And the design is very zen, very minimalist. Even the charcoal used to cook the meat is Japanese. It’s totally Japanese but….
It’s French. It’s French first because the products are French. You sense the respect for the product and therefore for the local producers, and that means that there must be some sort of dialog, exchanges. It’s French because there’s a love, an admiration for the French products but also for our cuisine. If you look at the pictures, it’s a French haute cuisine restaurant, a tad minimalist (and with dessert de chef).
It’s really interesting because you can see what’s left of the French cuisine when you remove the decorum, the French service, the bourgeois atmosphere and even a French chef. You just have the products, the essence.
This will not be complete nor possible without the perfect execution, and even sensibility of the chef.
Perfect for a date or a dinner with a foodie friend (or both!)
A very solid one star.
Update 2023:
I went back. The level is very similar with two notable things. One difference and one i realized this time.
The first one is I think the chef rely less on the nobility of the ingredients, and more on himself.
The second is more important. It has the Auberge (inn) spirit. It’s actually the Japanese Auberge. Obviously you can not sleep there, but the couple is running the operation, giving a family spirit, and the proximity with the chef, a certain warmth that transpires from all of this.
With the time, I realized how great the memories were created that night.
An extremely solid Auberge Star!
So perfectly French, it’s Japanese.
What’s interesting here? I guess this is the perfect example of a Japanese chef establishing himself in Paris and opening a restaurant in hommage to the French cuisine.
Let’s start with the obvious. It’s a Japanese restaurant. The chef is Japanese, alone behind the bar where he works. Nearly a one man show. He is only helped by a Japanese lady that does mostly the service for some happy few. Because, there’s the counter and only two/three tables (one is taken for the service). Just like in other Japanese restaurants, the master only cooks for an handful of customers per day (when I came, he wasn’t doing lunches anymore, with some exceptions for special groups). And the design is very zen, very minimalist. Even the charcoal used to cook the meat is Japanese. It’s totally Japanese but….
It’s French. It’s French first because the products are French. You sense the respect for the product and therefore for the local producers, and that means that there must be some sort of dialog, exchanges. It’s French because there’s a love, an admiration for the French products but also for our cuisine. If you look at the pictures, it’s a French haute cuisine restaurant, a tad minimalist (and with dessert de chef).
It’s really interesting because you can see what’s left of the French cuisine when you remove the decorum, the French service, the bourgeois atmosphere and even a French chef. You just have the products, the essence.
This will not be complete nor possible without the perfect execution, and even sensibility of the chef.
Perfect for a date or a dinner with a foodie friend (or both!)
A very solid one star.
Update 2023:
I went back. The level is very similar with two notable things. One difference and one i realized this time.
The first one is I think the chef rely less on the nobility of the ingredients, and more on himself.
The second is more important. It has the Auberge (inn) spirit. It’s actually the Japanese Auberge. Obviously you can not sleep there, but the couple is running the operation, giving a family spirit, and the proximity with the chef, a certain warmth that transpires from all of this.
With the time, I realized how great the memories were created that night.
An extremely solid Auberge Star!
Il s'agit de mon second passage dans ce restaurant et j'avoue être toujours émerveillé par la qualité des entrées, plats et desserts servit à cette table.
Le cadre est sobre, mais magnifique. Le chef compose ses plats devant vous en live et vous explique ensuite se qui se trouve dans votre assiette. Il s'agit d'une table de goût où vous aller payer le prix de la qualité, mais qu'elle qualité aussi ^^
Je recommande sans soucis et avec plaisir
Le cadre est sobre, mais magnifique. Le chef compose ses plats devant vous en live et vous explique ensuite se qui se trouve dans votre assiette. Il s'agit d'une table de goût où vous aller payer le prix de la qualité, mais qu'elle qualité aussi ^^
Je recommande sans soucis et avec plaisir
Very subtle and refined cuisine , in a little minimalisticly decorated restaurant . I went for the basic menu , but surely worthwhile exploring the Menu Degustation . Enjoy !
Une cuisine précise et goûteuse. Belle surprise sur les artichauts rôtis, la soupe de maïs, le sériole et la pintade dont la cuisson était parfaite. Des plats de très haut niveau, d'autres légèrement en dessous, à l'image du soufflé au citron, léger, mais qui manque de peps. Manque un peu de twist pour le prix (menu dégustation à 110 €).
Dommage que les menus proposés soient uniquement des menus surprises.
Bon choix de vins, l'un des vins au verre était un peu décevant, les autres superbes, avec un bon choix à prix raisonnable.
Service agréable et souriant. Le chef vient parfois aider au service.
Dommage que les menus proposés soient uniquement des menus surprises.
Bon choix de vins, l'un des vins au verre était un peu décevant, les autres superbes, avec un bon choix à prix raisonnable.
Service agréable et souriant. Le chef vient parfois aider au service.
Exceptionnel ! Le Chef Japonais nous régale avec une cuisine inventive, créative et pleine de découvertes. Un des meilleurs restaurants de paris pour une soirée à 2.
French cuisine brought to perfection with Japanese precision and delicacy at Michelin restaurant ES by chef @takayuki_honjo. ⠀
Outstanding tasting menu from ES for our 8-course "brunch".⠀
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Started with Pumpkin mousse and croque monsieur au foie gras. Followed by Girolles ravioli with delicious chestnut sauce. Unforgettable Lobster with truffle and cauliflower sauces. Turbot fish and lean crunchy chicken with a hint of lemon and apricot were the hero. Delicate Lichi sorbet with mellow smooth Jasmin jelly as pre-dessert and ended with heavenly ice cream
Outstanding tasting menu from ES for our 8-course "brunch".⠀
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Started with Pumpkin mousse and croque monsieur au foie gras. Followed by Girolles ravioli with delicious chestnut sauce. Unforgettable Lobster with truffle and cauliflower sauces. Turbot fish and lean crunchy chicken with a hint of lemon and apricot were the hero. Delicate Lichi sorbet with mellow smooth Jasmin jelly as pre-dessert and ended with heavenly ice cream
