Restaurants reviews

With good food but below promise and catastrophic service, this long-awaited dinner at Drouant turned out to be a real wreck. I'm not about to return any time soon. I had eaten at Drouant in the past, in a...

Project offers fine, refined dishes that are not overly sophisticated, in a warm, friendly setting, without fuss. But the omnipresence of lemon in all the dishes during our dinner eventually became boring, and certain aspects of the service were...

The Aux Lyonnais restaurant in Paris offers Lyon-inspired cuisine revisited in an original and creative way, in a setting more than a hundred years old. Aux Lyonnais is a restaurant where I had already been several times years ago...

In Lille, Le Braque offers creative cuisine based on local produce, in a very convivial setting. For this last dinner in Lille, and after testing the two extremes (one estaminet and two starred restaurants), I'll finish with something in between....

Le Cerisier, in Lille, offers quality cuisine for a Michelin-starred restaurant, but it's hampered by laborious service. For my third dinner in Lille, after La Table du Clarance, I chose another Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Cerisier. Ideally I would have preferred...

La Table du Clarance's cuisine is quite inventive in its classic guise, with the quality you'd expect from a Michelin-starred restaurant, but with a few welcome creative touches. No more, but no less. For my second evening in Lille, I...

Chez Raoul offers simple, tasty and hearty cuisine typical of northern France, but the service is seriously sloppy. For my first evening in Lille I was looking for something typical, an estaminet, which is to local cuisine what the bouchon...

Miru offers quality Japanese cuisine, even quite fine, but the service and behavior of the staff spoiled our meal. For this last dinner in Chicago we had originally booked at The Vig. But at the last minute, Olivier, who was...

Takara offers authentic, top-quality Japanese cuisine in a warm setting in the heart of Paris. Some things are planned and expected, while others come as a surprise, as in the case of this totally improvised dinner party. As I was...

Cabra offers good quality Peruvian cuisine in a rather unconvincing atmosphere. It's been a long time since I've eaten Peruvian food, even though I'm an unconditional ceviche fan. As I was preparing for this trip to Chicago and putting together...