François Simon, France's least recognised but most respected and most feared restaurant critic thanks to weekly columns in Le Figaro, Figaroscope and disguised appearances on the cable channel...

Sunday lunch at Lao Lane Xang a few months ago was full of surprises: the range of the Vietnamese and Laotian dishes on the menu; the fact that our first courses were served in far less time than...

Paris currently generates one immediate question among those who write about restaurants: is it still interesting? This scepticism is based on the premise that Paris as a restaurant...

Le Repaire du Cartouche in Paris’s 11th arrondissement is one of the most unusual restaurants I have ever visited. Firstly, it is impossible to miss. Exit the metro...

At the end of an excellent meal last November at Auguste, a chic new restaurant in Paris’s seventh arrondissement, the waitress delivered our coffees and four individually wrapped caramels....

As we left Agapé, which opened earlier this year in Paris’s chic 17th arrondissement, I congratulated Laurent Lapaire, its maitre d’ and co-owner, on what had been an excellent dinner. As I...

As we left Agapé, which opened earlier this year in Paris’s chic 17 th arrondissement, I congratulated Laurent Lapaire, its maitre d’ and co-owner, on what had been an...

By the end of dinner all four of us had managed to leave our hearts at Itinéraires, which opened in April just off the Boulevard St-Germain in Paris’s Latin Quarter, albeit for very...

French and British restaurants have already suffered two body-blows this year, even before any significant fall-out from a faltering global economy.   The first was the death of...

Warren Winiarski confirmed Monday what previously had been unthinkable: that he is selling his ground-breaking Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in Napa Valley. And the buyer is not the typical...

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A fortnight ago, New York restaurateur Danny Meyer was in London to give a talk on the philosophy of enlightened hospitality which he expounds in his book ‘Setting the Table’ to a...

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  Our evening at the Bistrot Paul-Bert in Paris’s 11 th arrondisement, not far from the Bastille, was memorable for many reasons.   Our friends, who had defied my...

My reasons for choosing to review Taillevent restaurant in Paris were initially quite flippant. Although I would be the first to admit that restaurant correspondents are the last people to...