The Mr. T at the trendy Paris restaurant of the same name is not a bulked-up wrestler with a warrior’s hairstyle and gold chains, but a rather petit Japanese chef, Tsuyoshi Miyazaki, who is scarcely visible above the countertop in … Read More
I try to avoid “trendy” restaurants in Paris because the noise levels are generally high and the food standards low. But when asked to choose a place for a reunion of a group of friends, I decided to give the … Read More
The Café du Coin is the corner café/restaurant everyone wishes they had in their neighborhood. In fact, it is worth leaving your neighborhood to eat in. First of all, the price of the lunch menu can’t be beat: €19 for three … Read More
My friends and I were lucky enough to turn up at the restaurant Salt (first reviewed here in 2015), in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, only a week after chef Antoine Tonon had taken over the kitchen. It’s usually a good idea to … Read More
Eels seems like a funny name for a Paris restaurant, but the humble eel, once scorned and nearly completely forgotten, is très à la mode in Paris right now, slithering onto menus in many restaurants, especially those with Japanese chefs. My … Read More
Across the street from the Gare Saint-Lazare are two stately brasseries specializing in seafood that one might tend to ignore because they are located so close to the train station. Paris Update’s former reviewer Richard Hesse tried Mollard, founded in … Read More
Lately, everyone has been asking me when I will be reviewing Paris’s new nudist restaurant, O’Naturel. The answer is never. I prefer to remain dressed while eating (though I am tempted by nude bowling, which is also possible in Paris). … Read More
I hadn’t done my homework properly and was rather shocked when I was handed the dinner menu at the new restaurant Yoshinori and discovered that the only options were a three-course set menu for €70 and a tasting menu for … Read More
Since I am no expert on the cuisine of New Orleans, I went to Nola with three Texans who know their gumbo. We soon discovered, however, that there is much more to Nola than Louisiana’s famous state dish. Nola, owned by … Read More
I have always maintained that it is a bad idea to order pasta in a French restaurant, since it is usually overcooked and served with an uninteresting sauce. Now William Ledeuil, one of Paris’s leading chefs, has set out to … Read More
