Hachis parmentier is as a rustic dish. Mashed potatoes with minced beef baked in the oven (sometimes topped with cheese) make perfect comfort food for cold winter nights. But the hachis parmentier created by Jean Pierre Vigato from Apicius in Paris is not rustic at all. Jean Pierre Vigato redefines…

Last holiday season, Pierre Hermé invented macarons with foie gras. This year the pastry king presents two new macarons – with black truffles and with 25-year-old balsamic vinegar of Modena. What is most surprising though is the price of these small treasures. Each macaron (small size) costs 8 €. I…

I don’t know how about you, the perfect risotto for me is when the rice grains are separate and slightly al dente, it contains very little cheese and cream… And if the risotto is generously sprinkled over with fresh black Périgord truffles its a paradise! You can taste this perfection…

I saw these beauties yesterday in a shop in place de la Madeleine. The price of white Alba truffles this year is crazy!! Maison de la Truffe (19 Place de la Madeleine, 75008)

Christophe Adam of Fauchon continues his “club cake” tradition and this autumn he proposes the classical “forêt noir” cake in a not so classical form. I love this cake so much that last week, despite all the strikes, I went to Fauchon (place de la Madeleine) three times just for…

I guess this is what defines a three Michelin stars restaurant(at least in France)- every single dish in Yannick Alleno’s “palace” restaurant was perfection. Dining in a top restaurant is being a little bit lazy. Usually, there is no place for errors, all you have to do is to sit…

As I expected the dinner in Le Pré Catelan was flawless like last time. The only problem was that the autumn menu didn’t differ that much from the spring menu. Also, the choices in the menu were quite small, so unless you want to eat the same dishes every time,…

Bistrot Paul Bert is already a legend – great food, Parisian spirit. And, even if there were some “food tourists”, I wouldn’t call it touristy… When looking at some people eating there you could feel that they were just enjoying their ordinary lunch in the bistrot next door…

Yesterday I had lunch in the most gastronomic street in Paris. Rue Paul Bert is the home of three famous and highly praised Parisian restaurants. The number 13 – Le Temps au Temps (01 43 79 63 40), number 15 – Unico and number 18 – Le Bistro Paul Bert.…

I guess that all the most genius French “chef pâtissiers” pass through the legendary Fauchon house before receiving their worldwide glory. Once there was Pierre Herme, now -its the turn of Christophe Adam. And even if he has been working in Fauchon only for few years, this young pastry chef…