RESTAURANT ADDRESS

53 Passage des Panoramas

Paris, France

+33 1 42 33 04 35

RESTAURANT STAFF

Executive Chef: Shinichi Saito

General Manager: Guillaume Geud

OAD HISTORY

First appearance in Top 100.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Passion comes in many forms. For Shinichi Sato, it meant being so moved by a meal at Astrance that he went back to the kitchen afterward and asked Pascal Barbot for a job. After doing a two-year stint at the restaurant, Sato left the safe confines of the 16th arrondissement for Spain, accepting a job at Adoni Aduriz’s kitchen at Mugaritz. Enter old friend Guillaume Geudj, who invited Sato to be the chef at a place he was opening in one of the oldest arcades in Paris. Now the two operate this award-winning, 20- seat restaurant that is so tiny the kitchen is located on the second floor. As expected, reviewers rave about “cuisine and service that are exceptional” and a tasting menu that is “all hits and no misses.” The interior, recently renovated, is an exercise in white; except for the black chairs, almost everything else in the restaurant, including the art on the walls, is white.

Salmon with citrus and turnips
Photo Courtesy of: Luxeat