Michelin-starred restaurants

This corresponds to the restaurant's rating at the time of our visit.

La Mère Brazier in Lyon: an excellent experience at this monument to French cuisine

La Mère Brazier, Lyon's double Michelin-starred restaurant, has taken the concept of the ‘bouchon lyonnais’ to a gourmet level for an experience of the highest order. For this second dinner in Lyon, unlike my previous stays, I planned well in...

Restaurant Gia in Hanoi: a good Michelin-starred restaurant that struggled to embark me on a laborious journey

Gia, in Hanoi, is a Michelin-starred restaurant offering creatively reinterpreted Vietnamese cuisine. It's good, but creativity has its limits: the property had a hard time drawing me into its dining experience and almost lost me along the way. Unlike...

Anan Saigon Restaurant: fine, creative Vietnamese cuisine

Anan Saigon fully deserves its Michelin star, offering fine traditional Vietnamese cuisine with a touch of creativity. As usual, I try to find restaurants in different price ranges in each city. As for finding a gourmet restaurant in Saigon, my...

Restaurant Project in Gothenburg: a Michelin-starred restaurant with a monotonous tone

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...

Restaurant le Cerisier in Lille: good but boring

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 in Lille: a good Michelin-starred restaurant

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...

Restaurant Au Crocodile in Strasbourg: a great experience in this prestigious venue

Au Crocodile, Strasbourg's iconic restaurant, offers traditional but not boring gourmet cuisine, and seems well on the way to regaining its former lustre. When it came to finding a Michelin-starred restaurant in Strasbourg, I hardly gave it a second thought....

Restaurant 100 Maneiras in Lisbon: a surprising gastronomic journey

100 Maneiras takes you on a gastronomic journey into the world and life of chef Ljubomir Stanisic. It's an experience that's as surprising as it is impressive, and one that's easier to live than to talk about. It's been several...

The Samuel Restaurant, Copenhagen: Excellent but staggering prices

While in Copenhagen for business purposes, I chose to dine with colleagues at The Samuel restaurant, located a bit outside the Danish capital. As a reminder, here is the itinerary followed: The concept It is a gastronomic restaurant, decorated with a Michelin...

Restaurant Cura in Lisbon: a very good and creative gastronomic restaurant

Cura in Lisbon, the restaurant of the Ritz Four Seasons is a very good gastronomic offering a rather inventive cuisine on classic bases. For this dinner in Lisbon the choice was not complicated. For my birthday, I had made...