Tag: michelin
Loiseau des Ducs in Dijon: an excellent Michelin-starred restaurant in a very pleasant setting
Loiseau des Ducs is certainly the best Michelin-starred restaurant I've tried in a long time. In addition to its cuisine, which is both traditional and creative (but not too much so), the restaurant offers a very pleasant dining room...
IN Diferente in Porto: a fine Michelin-starred restaurant and an ode to seafood
In Diferente offers fine gourmet cuisine that makes the most of local produce, all in a simple, refined setting.
So, after three evenings of upmarket dining, here I am, at the final dinner of this Portuguese escapade, with this...
Cortile Spirito Santo in Syracuse: a refined Sicilian Michelin-starred restaurant
Cortile Spirto Santo in Syracuse, awarded a Michelin star, offers refined Sicilian cuisine of excellent quality and attentive service.
To occupy my two evenings in Syracuse, I wanted to try a Michelin-starred restaurant and a simpler gastronomic one, and so...
Are convivial places dying out in Europe?
Every day in France, cafés and bistros close without finding new owners. The causes of the decline of bistros in France are well known, and we mentioned them last week: new consumer habits, increased competition from fast food, unbearable...
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...