Located inside the Pont Royal Hotel, L'Atelier de
Joel Robuchon embodies the concept of a decadent culinary experience. The
restaurant has no tables, but a bar which encloses an open kitchen and red
leather stools for its audience.
L’Astrance,
named for a wildflower.
Gastronomes here were taken aback when L'Astrance
won three stars in the recent Michelin guide, because it did not meet the usual
three-star requirements at all.
It's hard not to be excited by Le Chateaubriand. It is effortlessly cool, understated yet accomplished, democratic, affordable and, perhaps most importantly, fun. Its lack of airs and graces – hard chairs and bare tables, the take-it-or-leave-it five-course fixed-price menu and the championing of natural wines – is not to everyone's tastes, but Le Chateaubriand doesn't really care.
