Cookoon, welcome to the club!
This is the tempting proposition of this club for lovers of the art of living: enjoy a gastronomic experience in exceptional settings and feel right at home. The refined dishes of 25 renowned chefs – from the great starred names to the rising young guard – find a setting to suit them in residences opening […]
Marcel Ravin: from the Caribbean to Monaco
At the sumptuous Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, the chef of the Blue Bay restaurant serves an innovative and exotic cuisine that has won over the Michelin Guide for a second time. Awarded a second star last March, Chef Marcel Ravin invites you to travel with his cuisine. Based in the Principality, where he has […]
Yakuza Paris by Olivier, the festive Japanese of Maison Albar Hotels – Le Vendome
After the Monumental Palace in Porto, the Maison Albar Hotels group has opened a second Yakuza in the latest of its Parisian hotels, Le Vendome, near the Opéra Garnier. One enters here as in a speakeasy to discover first a bar with explosive cocktails, facing the garden, then a room with a muffled decor spiced […]
Like at home at Petit Pierre
Each plate is a unique creation. When you decide to opt for the four- or six-course tasting menus, you give carte blanche to chef Pierre Augé, who has a star on his record and won the famous Top Chef culinary competition (2014). A creative bias that he proudly displays on his menu with “I do […]
The Domaines de Fontenilles take to the sea on the Ile d’Yeux
And one more address for Domaines de Fontenille! The hotel collection that combines luxury and zenitude celebrates the arrival of a new domain on the Ile d’Yeux, called Les Hautes Mers. In addition to the seventeen rooms that make up the place, a restaurant with an incredible view of the bay of Ker Chalon will […]
Assaf Granit: his memories of Jerusalem
The jerusalem chef delights the taste buds from the Holy City to Paris via London, mixing Eastern and Western inspiration. Recently, he opened Tekes, a new trendy restaurant with Israelite flavors. Acumen looks back on the career of this chef who has made his hometown his primary inspiration. “I was born and raised in Jerusalem […]
Sketch : Psychedelic Restaurant
Sketch is the place to be for gourmets in the heart of London. Born from the collaboration between the restaurateur Mourad Mazouz and the French chef Pierre Gagnaire, it mixes incredible decoration and unforgettable flavors. Divided into five rooms with resolutely different atmospheres, this atypical restaurant has the gift of weaving a perfect harmony between […]
Oiseau Oiseau, the new nest of Sven Chartier in the Perche
Settled in the Perche for three years, Sven Chartier, the former starred chef of Saturne, in Paris, and his wife Marianne, opened Oiseau Oiseau last October in their adopted region. Three days a week, they welcome an eclectic clientele, which mixes locals and Parisians on weekends, in a warm place that they renovated together. At […]
Stedsans in the Woods, escape in the woods
In the south of Sweden, here is a place out of the ordinary… and out of time! Stedsans is the playground of two Danish chefs, Mette Helbæk and Flemming Schiøtt Hansen, who used to run a restaurant of the same name in Copenhagen, in the heart of the ØsterGro district. New life, new setting: it […]
The Calandre, an Italian family institution
Chef Massimiliano Alajmo’s restaurant, founded in 1981 by his parents, Erminio Alajmo and Rita Chimetto, is the place where he delivers Michelin-starred cuisine in Padua, Veneto, in northeastern Italy. Despite their success on the international scene, Massimiliano and his brother Raffaele have maintained the authentic spirit of the restaurant they inherited, reinterpreting the classics of […]
L’Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet, an ultra-confidential interlude in Shanghai
Unusual: that’s the least you can say about the experience that a handful of “happy few” (10 customers per evening) can enjoy in Shanghai, at the address kept secret until the last moment by French chef Paul Pairet. Awarded three stars in the Michelin guide, this table is like no other: the lucky ones who […]
French gastronomy in the world’s cuisines
One thing is certain: the reputation of French gastronomy is well established. And if it has the merit of delighting the taste buds of the locals, it also shines abroad. All over the world, chefs like to put dishes from the French traditions on their menu. Here, Acumen presents three restaurants honoring the French cuisine. […]
At Mugaritz, a high-flying gastronomic experience
As much a chef as a creator, the Basque Andoni Luis Aduriz delivers a colorful and flavorful cuisine at Mugaritz, a two-starred restaurant on the border between France and Spain. A short distance from San Sebastian is a culinary laboratory like few others in the world: since 1998, the Basque Andoni Luis Aduriz has been […]
Perception
In the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Perception, the first table of Korean chef Sukwon Yong, has all the makings of a gourmet restaurant, with original recipes and an impeccable mastery of flavors. Perception is open for lunch and dinner, but it was at lunchtime that we fell in love with this new Franco-Korean enterprise, with […]
4 tables to taste the dolce vita in Italy
With its rich soil and ancient culinary traditions, Italy is a popular destination for food lovers. With extremely varied regional specialties, transalpine gastronomy offers a wide range of antipasti, dishes, and dolce. From Milan to Florence and Rome, here is our selection of four restaurants that are sure to please us in the boot! L’Acquolina, […]
Lamia’s Fish Market: dive into this unusual restaurant
Twenty thousand leagues under New York. That’s the idea behind the amazing Lamia’s Fish Market restaurant, which opened in 2019 in Brooklyn. Two years of work were necessary to give life to this titanic address, spread over three levels, offering several tasting spaces, all following the same guideline: a maritime overdose. Octopus in fresco, rock […]
Antonin Bonnet: an outstanding chef
Antonin Bonnet is a master of the culinary arts. A former disciple of Michel Bras – having also worked at L’Oustau de Baumanière – he arrived in Paris and brought with him his first star at the renowned Sergent Recruteur. His childhood spent in Lozère, immersed in nature and surrounded by animals, forged an eco-responsible […]
Restaurant Sylvestre, the new star of Courchevel
Eighteen months after the closure of Thoumieux in Paris and nine years after leaving the Strato hotel in Courchevel, where he won two Michelin stars, Sylvestre Wahid is back in the prestigious Three Valleys resort. He has just opened the new gastronomic table at the 5-star Les Grandes Alpes 1850. The setting: a perfectly elegant […]
Shiro: a meeting of minds between Japan and France
Bridges between France and Japan, in terms of cuisine, are often a success. This is the case of Shiro (in French: blanc) nestled near the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where the Japanese chef Hiroyuki Ushiro pays tribute to his native village Yamaguchi. Bordered by the Sea of Japan, the chef spent his childhood there surrounded by […]
Jujube, at the confluence of various influences
Halfway between the Sacré Coeur and the lively streets of Pigalle, chef Senda David Waguena offers an initiatory journey that mixes the different cultures that he embodies: Togolese touches first, in reference to his country of origin, but also Italian notes – he lived in Venice, from where he brought back a passion for seafood […]