Septime is their sister restaurant and his wife is the chef owner of Le Servan
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I was reading on hungry onion servan was quite popular but its French Thai food, it seems intriguing but also too far out there I’ve only been to Paris once for about a day or so.
So here is my opinion and that’s all it is, an opinion but younger French Chefs seem to be exploring a more personal cuisine and international flavors are really seeping into places they weren’t in the past, Paris has very good Arab, Algerian, Moroccan, among other regional African cuisine, Thai; There are several Japanese Chefs working upscale restaurants some as owners as well. It’s a good time to eat in Paris
Le Fooding is the magazine of what’s been called the Bistronomy movement of Chefs leaving fine dining to open these kind of less formal, seasonal, personal places. A lot of these Chefs come from the kitchens of Alan Passard (Aperge), Pascal Barbot (Astrance), Stephane Jego (L’ami Jean) -Highly recommended but prolly very hard to get into, Yves Camdebord (Le Comptoir); Inaki Aizpitarte (who is friends with Ludo) ect. For example Tatiana Levha (Le Sevran) and Bertand Grebaut (Septime, La Cave, Clamato) meet at the Aperge and Levha also worked under Pascal Barbot at Astrance
Others to look out for are Sota Atsumi who worked for Robuchon then became famous as chef of Clown Bar and now has Maison Sota https://en.maison-sota.com
Chef Dai Shinozuka who worked for Yves Camdeborde (one of the godfathers of Bistronomy) and now owns LES ENFANTS ROUGES | Site officiel, avis, réservation en ligne
Just something to think about! Of course there is still great French fine dining as well as more traditional French food (I think I included 1 or 2 in the other post) and the David Lebovitz link includes more!
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This is an awesome rec! I’ll check out le fooding and I would rather have less stuffy more casual new age restaurants I’ll check out the ones you mentioned.
But this being my first real time in Paris I might check out some of the good oldies too!
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And if you really want to go local you can try a ‘French Taco’ which is really more of an North African burrito lol
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Chartier.
And drink lots of wine!
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I wouldn’t take kids to Frenchie’s Bar a Vin, or go back myself. I ate very well there but as detailed in the topic I linked to it wasn’t very comfortable or very French.
Au Coin de Malte is family- and budget-friendly. Happened across it because we randomly stayed in a hotel around the corner.
Le Wepler is a solid bistro - not in any way mindblowing, but it’s open until 30 minutes past midnight and does all the classics well (solid seafood tower, pig trotter, escargot, onion soup, baba au rhum, crepes suzette flambeed tableside, etc. etc.). good backup option
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Not sure what family friendly means…
Here is our last fall trip Paris report - Pages, Granite, Montee, Flocon - France - Hungry Onion
Also, my daughter (who first dined in Paris as a 10 year old - L’Ami Jean was her favorite back then) now visited as an adult (sort of) and really enjoyed Les Parisiens and Origines
Lots of useful info on Hungry Onion
Topics tagged paris
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Thanks beam I joined and have been perusing and posting there!
I’ll look at your thread and get back to you with specific questions about places!
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I plan on that for sure!
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Sorry - I now see that family friendly means 2 year old. Forget anything I said…
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No problem!
In your experience are most casual but good dining friendly to 2 year olds? Or should we stick with super casual places?
Uh, I’d stick to super casual places while in France. Spain is far, far more friendly towards families dining with toddlers/infants.
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I’ve hardly ever seen children in restaurants in France.
Kids are OK in France as long as they are well behaved, e.g. running around etc. (It’s the typical expectation in most parts of Europe that kids early on learn to behave well in public in general, including restaurants - same also with kids (and adults) eat what everybody eats and no substitutions (but that is more an adult problem in the US)
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Don’t expect high chairs.
Just noticed Tom Meyer got 1* in the latest Tire guide at Granite he was sous for Ann Sofie Pic, been following him on Insta for a while. Haven’t been but this is the kinda place I would love to check out.
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Thanks yes I’ve got granite on the list. People on HO are really into that place!
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