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Three Reasons to Experience a Remarkable Chef: Part I

Symbols, stars, numbers, and other restaurant rating systems can provide a culinary relief map of a city, but they’re inadequate in revealing the particular interest of dining out in one restaurant or chez one chef over another. A few well-chosen words go much further in whetting the appetite for experiencing a chef and his restaurant.

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My World Cup Runneth Over The west central African nation of Cameroon may have lost early in World Cup competition in South Africa this summer but the spirit and style of Massaï Mara, a worthy Cameroonian restaurant in Paris’s 19th arrondissement, plays on. Cameroonian cuisine is inspired by both the sea and the land, and Massaï Mara widens the palate to the cuisines of African neighbors, some of which will be familiar to those who know Creole cooking. Read More
Ethnic Paris: Urban and Suburban Adventures in Indian Restaurants For urban residents and travelers, a trip from the big city into the suburbs is often disorienting. The mere suggestion of going into the suburbs for dinner can sounds like an invitation to go on a hard trek into the unknown. But there is a special taste that comes with a meal at the end of a long suburban journey. To borrow wine terms: Read More
Patricia’s Casual Cooking Class in the Town of Versailles The Town of Versailles is often ignored by those visiting the Palace of Versailles. That’s understandable in that the palace, the gardens, and the Trianons in the park can keep a visitor well occupied for most of a day. Yet the town, as a planned adjunct to the palace, merits a visit as both an uncrowded extension of the royal domain and, for all its 17th-18th-centuriness, a welcome bit of contemporary, local French life during a visit otherwise devoted to historical and monumental France. Read More
La Ferrandaise: An Ode to a Cow and to a Region Even after living in Paris for 30 years, Gilles Lamiot, proprietor of this highly satisfying restaurant near the Luxembourg Garden, sounds as though he’s just come in from branding cattle. As it should be in a restaurant that is an ode to both a rural region—Auvergne—and a cow—the Ferrandaise. “I buy my calf directly from the farmer—130 to 140 kilos, five months old. I pay the slaughterhouse. I get it delivered.” Read More
Picnicking on the Pont des Arts Over the past ten years Parisians and visitors alike have gotten into dinnertime picnicking as a way of enjoying the nonchalant beauty of Paris in spring and summer. What had previously been isolated Seine-side clusters devoted more to afternoon sunbathing than to evening picnicking, has now developed into a popular ritual whereby, picnickers both French and foreign congregate at various choice setting in the capital. Read More
An Ode to Guy Martin, Chef of Le Grand Véfour From his youth as a rugged boy in the mountains to his position at the heights and forefront of French cuisine in Paris, Guy Martin has always brought energy and intensity to his passions. Chef since 1993 at Le Grand Véfour, the perennially great and unwaveringly elegant restaurant by the garden of the Palais Royal in Paris, he continues to develop his craft and extend his reach. Fabien Nègre brings his own talents as interviewer, portraitist, and gastronomy commentator in this ode to an “elusive and singular man.” Read More