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Dining out
Every month, a selection of restaurants that are worth your trip
to the City of Light. From the 3-starred Michelin Guide
fancy restaurants to the small bistros,Paris CapitaleMagazine
guides you toward fabulous cuisine and great ambiance.
MANKO
15, avenue Montaigne, 8th. Tel. 0182280015. http://www.manko-paris.com
- Noon to 01am•Closed Saturday for lunch and Sunday•Valet Parking•Average price:€50.
With Maison Blanche up on the seventh floor of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées building, 15 Avenue Montaigne is already
home to a restaurant. It can add a second to its name, opened by Benjamin Patou who took over the former Drouot-Montaigne
auction house to create a vast, festive restaurant serving fine Peruvian fare. So it seemed only natural to entrust Gastón Acurio,
considered by some to be South America's finest chef, with the menu. Among the house specialties, we particularly enjoyed
the cebiche clasico of raw fish (€12), with sweet potato, choclo corn, cancha (fried corn) and tiger's milk. To follow, don't hesitate
to try one of the tasty anticuchos (skewers of chicken, beef, salmon or asparagus, ranging in price from €12 to €17). When the
time comes to choose your dessert, the cachanga (a big, crispy pastry topped with seasonal fruit and lime sorbet) will keep your
taste buds in Peru just a little while longer for €14. A true journey for the palate, in perfect harmony with the sublime setting
designed by Laura Gonzalez, one of the biggest decorators of the moment, who succeeded in creating an ethnic-chic ambiance.
As a bonus, on Friday and Saturday nights, you can sip on one of the signature cocktails in the restaurant's cabaret as you enjoy
the burlesque and edgy show created by singer Garou, who is also one of the restaurant's partners. Tasting menu at €65.
LE FISH CLUB
58, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1st.
Tel. 0140266875 .www.eccfishclub.com- 7pm to 2am•Closed Sunday and Monday
- Average price:€60.
Opened by the Experimental Group, this restaurant
had closed for renovations after a short, albeit
promising, career. Now it's back in the limelight
with a sea theme that is sure to cause a sensation.
Gone are the revisited tapas, making way for the
beautiful cuisine of Julien Burlat, a talented French
chef who is a huge hit in Antwerp with his Michelin-
starred restaurant Dôme sur Mer and successful
satellite locations. The first dining room on the
ground floor offers a view onto the open kitchen.
A second, cozier space bathed in soft lighting on
the upper floor boasts a stunning retro zinc bar.
Difficult to choose from the menu that makes you
want to try everything: custom create your own
seafood and oyster platter or choose one of the
house suggestions (from€48 to€85), or opt for
delicious seafood dishes like the spectacular
crabmeat and lemon vinegar salad seasoned to
perfection (€16), the flawlessly cooked turbot and
carrots with cumin (€34), the half-lobster a la
plancha with sage butter (€29), or the surprising
lemon meringue pie... with pepper (€11)! Nice
selection of predominantly white wines, like the
Hautes-Côtes de Beaune 2014 from Delagrange at
€49 (€9 by the glass). A lovely sea breeze in Paris!
LA RÉGALADE SAINT-HONORÉ
106, rue Saint-Honoré, 1st. Tel. 0142219240.
- From 12:30pm to 2:30pm and 7:30pm to 10:30pm•Open daily•Unique Menu-carte at€39.
Bruno Doucet took over the reins of Yves Camdeborde’s iconic Régalade on avenue Jean-Moulin
in 2004. Riding on the bistro’s success, he opened a second restaurant on rue Saint-Honoré. He
started to find the space a little too close for comfort, however, and decided to move across the
street into roomier premises in late 2015. This new version is much nicer than its predecessor,
with a dining room that combines stone walls, beautiful dark wood beams, bench seating and
red velvet chairs, a small private table on the mezzanine, and even a high table d’hôtes with a
convivial view of the open kitchen. Truly inviting! But, more importantly, the food is just as good,
with that succulent terrine set on the table as an appetizer to make a pleasant wait for your
meal. But don’t overdo it if you want to save room for the delicate duo of crab meat and spelt
cooked in a swimming crab bisque, before delighting in a delicious Ospital farm-raised pork belly
with the perfect combination of tender meat and crispy skin: a real treat! For dessert, don’t
hesitate a second to order the flawless warm Grand-Marnier soufflé. A must-taste spot that
appeals to both Parisians and tourists on a quest for true French bistro fare.
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