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Guy Savoy: White Truffle Poached Egg Pumpkin Soup
I’m spoiled alert: It isn’t winter until I have a bowl of 3 Michelin-starred Restaurant Guy Savoy’s pumpkin soup. The huge orange squash are grown in his garden, driven up to Paris and then roasted and served directly from the interior. When Hubert or Christophe arrive wearing white gloves holding a golf ball-sized white truffle [...]
Scallops in Ham & Butter Infused Apple Cider
During a recent lunch at Restaurant Spring, my table mates from NYC stopped talking after one bite of this delicious scallop dish – where the kitchen team had pressed apples that morning to create a cider, then infused it with ham and butter. Are you kidding? What’s not to love. We wouldn’t let the server [...]
Restaurant Guy Savoy: Smoked Mackerel & Caviar
Three Michelin starred Restaurant Guy Savoy is the best dinner party in town – especially when it starts with a tower of smoked mackerel, salty ossetra and tart lemon pulp. Don’t even get me started on the pumpkin soup with poached egg and shaved white truffle…
The Secret to Bistro Paul Bert’s Steak-Frites
My buddy Bertrand Auboyneau, the owner of Bistro Paul Bert, shared the essential ingredient in the cream sauce that kicks his consistently “the best in Paris” rated steak-frites up a notch at lunch today. If the top quality beef, heavy cream, butter and Cognac aren’t enough to win you over, it is the “Sarawak” pepper [...]
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Frenchie’s Lamb Ragu
The lamb ragu at Frenchie just went straight to the top of the list for my best dish of the year, and so good it nearly took Guy Savoy’s black truffle artichoke soup with cepe brioche and truffle butter off the top of my list for the most memorable dish of my life. There is [...]
French Fried Chicken at L’Avant Comptoir
When I made a comment on Facebook and Twitter Saturday night that I’d just eaten the best fried chicken in Paris – word spread like a house on fire. Not because I was eating ag-ain, but because there is fried chicken, in Paris? During an eating marathon with Fashion Week press, I had to rub my [...]
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Baby Squid, Beetroot & Green Apple Cream
The best meal of the year at spectacular Restaurant Venissa, on Mazzorbo island north of Venice. Simply stunning produce and wine from the lagoon, garden and vineyards prepared by the beautiful and talented Chef Paola Budel. Go while you can, it is rumored to be the next NOMA. Full post in Travel + Culture, coming soon!
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Cauliflower & Roasted Squid Broth
I recently stopped by to congratulate my buddy Chef Jason Atherton on his stunning new place in London, the uber glam Pollen Street Social. He’s one of the most talented Chefs in London these days – and finally ventured out on his own after years of working with Gordon Ramsey. I’ll be writing about my eating [...]
Going Against the Grain: Baker Gontran Cherrier
When I recently caught up with 3rd generation baker & 4th generation entrepreneur Gontran Cherrier for breakfast in his first bakery it was anything but traditional. Although the rest of the Montmartre neighborhood seemed to be there queuing for the flaky butter croissants (in fact, they were taking them out of the oven just as fast as they were being [...]
Gettin’ Saucy with Béarnaise Chef Yves Camdeborde
Chef Yves Camdeborde is such a character. You’d think that one of the country’s most influential chefs (who has worked behind the best stoves in the city: the Ritz, Tour d’Argent, Hotel du Crillon, Régalade and Le Comptoir) would have an enormous ego – not so. He’s considered a mentor and big brother to many – [...]
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Pierre Hermé: Miss Gla’Gla’ Ice-Cream Sandwich
Available only in the Pierre Hermé boutique, these refreshing savory ice cream flavors slapped between his rectangular macaron cookies are so darned good they should come with a warning label. You can choose from this rose variety or the salted butter caramel, rhubarb and passion fruit and pistachio and strawberry.
How to Order Bakery Baguettes Like a Native
When I landed in Paris years ago fresh off the farm truck as we say in the South – the only words I knew in French were written on a piece of paper tucked away in my passport: the numbers 1-20, bonjour, baguette and s’il vous plait. Walking in to my first bakery I beamed, [...]