Paris Restaurants – Page 7 – Karin Shibata

Shabu Sha – Asian fusion “Shabu Shabu” hot pot

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in Asian fusion .

Shabu Sha – A Shabu Shabu in Paris? パリでしゃぶしゃぶ？

In the Marais, trendy district, a new cosy place…

Un shabu shabu à Paris ?

When China meets Japan…

A Wong Kai Wai mood but not for love… More for fun.

Nice and thought atmosphere and decoration.

The dishes-go-round like the kaiten sushi (回転寿司) is entertaining.

Shabu Shabu… Errr… But first what is it?

Shabu Shabu is the name of a Japanese dish. The original dish is the Chinese hot pot (shuan yang roy).

Shabu Shabu is an onomatopoeia evocating the sound of the ingredients stirring in the cooking pot.

Pretty menu with the history of Shabu Shabu.
L’histoire du Shabu Shabu….

Appetizers

Let’s start with some maki…
Quelques maki pour commencer…

All you can eat menu / Menu à volonté / 食べ放題のシステム

How to …

You have a pot of boiling water…

Shabu shabu-ing ingredients in a broth with vegetables and goji berries.

1) Choose the broth flavour: natural, spicy, miso…

2) Choose the sauce: Satay, peanuts..?

3) Choose and pour the ingredients you like to make a custom dish.

Different ingrédients (from left to right): Eggs, Dim sums, shrimps, Enokitake mushrooms, shrimps, kamaboko, noodles…

Drinks

Lemon honey tea

We took a refreshing lemon honey tea.

They is also a little selection of Japanese Saké and whiskys (Nikka, Yoichi) and even the Taiwanese, Kavalan Solist Sherry Cask.

REMARKS:

Take a look at the other room in the back. I don’t have pictures. But it is full of tin toys and other cute objects…

The desert menu should be ready for the summer but we finished the meal with a fortune cookie.

And my destiny is…

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This is not a Japanese restaurant. It is really a fusion of Asian dishes…

The concept is fun and the meal becomes a cool experience.

Nice decoration, nice service

Freshness and great variety of ingredients.

Vegan en gluten-free friendly.

The price

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Bad side of the price: all you can eat menu, the quantity of the ingredients.

Some ingredients were turning for a long time and seemed a bit tired (rare though).

18 € lunch & 25€ dinner all you can eat menu

Shabu Sha

72 rue des Gravilliers 75003 Paris 01 42 77 06 69

Mon: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Tue: 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Wed – Sun: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

www.shabusha.fr

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Paperboy – Never judge a place by its cover

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in Breakfast - Brunch, Paris Coffee Shops .

Paperboy !!! I feel so excited to discover this new place in the neighbourhood.

Paperboy has all the ingredients of the latest Parisian food trend.

1) OUT = A cool, modern design looking storefront. Black is the color of these last years.

2) IN = Quality products: Demory beer, jam from La chambre aux confitures.

3) Cozy interior and American products.

4) Home-made pastries.

BUT

Typical French welcoming !!!!

“Hello“

“I would like a latte please“

“Only one latte?…. Errrr… And you want to drink it here ? “

(I just had lunch at Sassotondo ! Yes it is Sunday and I keep my habit and I wanted to try this new place to test it fully later)

“Yes is it possible ?“

“Eeerr…. Then at the counter only…“

The counter is nice but as it seems to bother them so much, I decide to take it to go….

Of course, I can totally understand that a restaurant does not want to take a table for a latte at lunch time…

But it is 3 pm, the brunch time seems to be finished and the place is new and empty !!!

Never judge a coffee by its cover

Latte
3,50 €

Unfortunately the coffee is too watered. The taste is insipide, the foam had no consistency at all…

It is bad !!!

I really hate to write review like this about a place I have not tested fully, but I would not try the brunch there as I planned too.

It is 23€ and I will keep for another place.

I would be very interested to have some feedbacks of persons who tried… Hope good and yummy…

The logo is as cute as the place !!!
Very disappointed…

Paperboy

137 rue Amelot,

75011 Paris

Feyrouz – Lebanese cuisine at anytime

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in All day service, Lebanese, Open every day .

I am born and raised in the 15th arrondissement of Paris and Feyrouz has always been part of my landscape.

If you look for something good to snack after trip to the Eiffel Tour, it is the perfect place. It is open 7/7 from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.

I have not been here for… 10 years…Can you believe it is the first time I actually eat at the restaurant !

It was just next to school and home. We used to take out “Shawarmas” (شاورما‎), a delicious sandwich usually with spit roasted meat with my friend Sari.

It was not planned and we are in rush because it’s my birthday and some mysterious surprise is opening at 8:00 pm. Funny fact, the restaurant’s birthday was yesterday… WooW it’s kind of old… too ! )

I never do anything special the day of my birthday. It’s the 2nd of january… It usually rains in Paris and gastronomic restaurants are mostly closed and anyways after the gigantic food experience of Christmas I feel like wanting fresh and diversified food.

Appetizers: olives, pickled vegetables…
Amuse-bouches: olives, légumes marinés…

So, after my long life story… Here is a nice fresh appetizer to start with…

I love picked vegetables (we have some in Japan too that we call otsukemeno)

feyrouz_lebanese_restaurant_paris_assorted_mezze

Assorted mezzo
Assortiment de mezze

The assortment of various dishes is a good choice a larger range of the Lebanese specialities.

Taboulé, , hummus (chick pea purée) and moutabbal (eggplant purée), fatayer (A dough stuffed with spinach, meat or cheese…)

Jawaneh mekli maa toum
“Flambéed” chicken wings; garlic, lemon
Ailes de poulet flambées, ail et citron.

The dish is served with Lebanese salad, hummus (chick pea purée) and moutabbal (eggplant purée).

I was feeling nervous that the place has changed like so many others… But it 38 years the quality had not changed.

Everything is delicious. The ingredients are fresh and well made.

The prices are of course higher than the take out but the quantities are huge.

The service was efficient and agreeable even with me rushing them…

FEYROUZ

8, rue Lourmel, Paris, France

01 45 78 07 02

Métro : Dupleix

The service is 7/7

8:00 am – 2:00 am

Non-stop so you can grab a snack whenever.

http://www.facebook.com/restaurantfeyrouz

If you like sea food, they also have the sea version next door: Feyrouz côté mer.

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L’Enoteca – All the reasons not to go…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in Italian, Paris Restaurants, To avoid .

I discovered L’Enoteca during a walk near the river Seine…

And after having read very nice reviews about this Italian restaurant, its wine selection and the nice service. I am very excited to discover the wine selection and the food.

You can’t judge a book by its cover.
L’habit ne fait pas le moine.

As soon as we came in… The restaurant is dark and not as cosy as it seems…

Non-existent service

After giving us the menu not very politely, we had the time to nearly learn it by heart until someone dared taking the order… (There was only a couple of customers when we came in)

The ordering was as painful as the rest. The explanations for the dishes were unclear and with a total non love of food.

“We are out of stock of this dish, of this wine…“

1) Couldn’t you tell before? 2) Could you at least try to pretend you are sorry instead of saying that ? 3) Out of stock for the first service of the day? Realllyy???

We were about to leave… And we should have…

Pasta or Scrap ?

The menu is written in Italian and the pastas seems home-made… A hope?

14€ for scraps…
Maltagliati porri e pecorino
Maltagliati with leek and pecorino cheese
Maltagliati aux poireaux et pecorino

Maltagliati (meaning non regular) is usually the excess dough (after making other pastas). It is cut irregularly and are usually used in soup… As a SCRAP !!!

I am not against making hi-jacking non-noble products to make creative recipes…

But this was actually cheap pasta dough remaining with some leeks and cheese…

A fat pond…

: 17€
Vegetarian lasagna.
Lasagne végétarienne.

Aren’t lasagna always good ? Nooo when it is soaked into fat…

Is is necessary to mention that the wine we took was insipid?

TO AVOID !!!

L’ENOTECA

25, rue Charles-V

75004 Paris, France

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Les enfants rouges – The Red Children

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in French by Japanese chefs .

In the Marais trendy district

Next to the oldest market in Paris “Marché des enfants rouges” (The red children market), the restaurant “Les enfants rouges” !

A Japanese chef

I wanted to test this restaurant/wine bar for a while. The kitchen is led by the Japanese chef Dai Shinozuka who takes French traditional recipes to an upper level…

Cream of pumpkin soup and smoked bacon.
Velouté de potiron et lard fumé.

This amuse-bouches is a delight. It’s tasty, creamy but with a light constancy.

A shame we did not have bread to start…

Minestrone soup with seasonal vegetables, pistou and Japanese pearls.
Minestrone aux légumes du moment, pistou et perle du Japon.

The minestrone soup was classical and tasty. The Japanese pearls or tapioca pearls adds originality.

I like changes and twists in cooking but to be honest, I missed some beans in the soup…

Poitrine de veau braisé et rôtie, champignons de Paris crus et cuits.
Braised and roasted veal breast, raw and cooked “Paris mushroom”.

A traditional french recipe perfectly cooked. An excellent dish.

25€
Rouleau de tête de veau à la ravigote, coques et endives.
Rolled veal head, ravigote sauce, clams and endive.

This dish has different parts of the veal’s head… It was risky to order it… You have to tike glutinous textures…

The “raw” aspect of the dish is balanced by clams and the nice foam.

The service by his wife is good and caring but the place is a bit noisy.

As it is a wine bar, I had a big expectation about the wine. It was rather disappointing.

Menu: Starter Main Dessert 38€

A dish 25€

Wine 8€ the glass

It can seem quite expensive for a lunch (as there is no lunch menus) but for the area it is common.

The quality of the products and the work in each dishes worth it. Even if I expected slightly more… It was good but I was not surprised…

I would advice to go for the diner.

LES ENFANTS ROUGES

9 rue de Beauce

75003 Paris,

75011 Paris

Wed – Mon: 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm, 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Phone 01 48 87 80 61

www.les-enfants-rouges.com

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Guide Michelin 2014 – France – New starred restaurants

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in News .

Today the gastronomic world in France is boiling. It is the launching of the French Edition of The Guide Michelin 2014.

Who is on the famous list of restaurants awarded or losing stars…

For 2014, 610 starred restaurant from which 64 are newly awarded…

Arnaud Lallement, the only new 3 starred chef

Arnaud Lallement, chef of the restaurant Assiette Champenoise, near Reims was already awarded “Chef of the year” by the other famous gastronomic guide Gault et Millau. What a year for this 39 years old, young chef.

Paris young and trendy chefs !

Here is my top 3 of Paris winners…

1) Akrame who already had on star got his second one !!!

2) La Scène the restaurant of the Hôtel le Prince de Galles with chef Stéphanie Le Quellec and the pastry chef Yann Couvreur (an article about his Christmas cake) got a star.

Yann Couvreur

3) Trendy Septime with chef Bertrand Grébaut also won his first star.

Japanese chefs

Since few years, Japanese chef in Paris are really successful, with French or Japanese cuisine .

Two Japanese restaurant, Okuda and Jin got their first star.

A hair in the soup…

France is boiling because the Michelin is getting more criticised and questioned than previous years…

Few days ago the famous French food journalist, Gilles Pudlowski wrote an article titled “Le Michelin a perdu sa boussole” (The Michelin has lost it’s compass). According to him the guide lost it’s judgment since former director like André Trichot and Bernard Naegellen were replaced by directors with different point of views…

The new international director is Michael Ellis (American) and his deputy Juliane Casper (German) … They want to discover new young chef… Gilles Pudlowski is of course not against but not if monuments chefs are forgotten… Like… Marc Veyrat…

The Telegraph titled… “Are the French losing their taste for the Michelin guide?”

The articles quotes the chef Marco Pierre who questioned the integrity of the guide-book. “When I was a boy, winning a Michelin star was like winning an Oscar. Today they dish out stars like confetti. What does Michelin mean any more? Not much. I don’t think Michelin understands what it’s doing itself. It’s unhinged.”

Telegraph article

Here is a the complete list of 2014 Michelin Guide – Starred restaurants in pdf.

Shabnam Saveurs – Iranian gastronomy

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in Persian .

Persian cuisine

Persian/Iranian cuisine… Not very well know in France… In Paris, there are few restaurants you can taste it. And the best is to discover it through friends and family, like I had the chance to…

Ancient Persian Feast
Shah Abbas inviting Uzbek Vali Muhammad Khan…

Shabnam Hashemi – A culinary artist

Shabnam is a friend who cooks wonderful Persian food. She started to share her passion through gastronomic consultancy, culinary stylish but also food creations.

Shabnam Hashemi ! A wonderful creative culinary stylist !

Iranian cuisine is mostly familial dishes with big plates of rice and stews.

Shabnam totally re-designed the traditional dishes in the most contemporary way.

Shabnam Saveurs
Aperitif feast

Design, gastronomy and authenticity

Shabnam Saveurs offers a wide range of delicate Iranian-style finger food for dinners, parties, cocktails and events…

Fessenjoon spoonfuls Meatballs in pomegranate and ground walnut sauce

Fessenjoon (Usually a big stew served with rice) spoonful
Meatballs in pomegranate and ground walnut sauce

Really a stew in finger food ? YES ! And it is wonderful !

Shabnam keeps the authenticity of original persian regional recipes and adds her touch of glamour and creativity.

Tachin Canapés
Rice marinated with yoghurt and saffron.

It is a very smart shape to eat rice in a cocktail party. It’s crispy and tender. The saffron flavour is a delight.

Mirzaghasemi Tartlets
Tiny tartlets garnished with mixed aubergine, grilled tomato and egg.

Enjoyable and convivial to taste.

My favourite !!! Koukou sabzi spirals with smoked salmon and crème fraîche.
Koukou is delicious savoury herbs, fried…

If you have a traditional Iranian diner you would have the chance to taste 2 or 3 specialities.

Shabnam Saveurs gives you the chance to travel through a wide landscape of Persian gastronomy.

Kashk Bademjoon Shot
Eggplant with fermented yoghurt (kachk).

Shabnam can totally make a tailored menu for you.

Mini Kofta
Meat and grilled chickpea bites.

A voyage in the tastes and perfumes of the Silk Road…

The dishes are tasty but Persian cuisine is not spicy hot, it is spicy in the perfumes…

Delights…

Bereshtook
Grilled yellow-pea flour biscuits flavoured with cardamom and sprinkled with ground pistachio.

Bereshtook is tasted with dark black tea…

Baghlava flowers
Bite-size pockets of pistachio and ground almonds, bathed in a rose-water, saffron and cardamom-perfumed sirop.

It is crispy, perfumed, rich and airy… A wonder.

Saffron ice cream

Addictive ! A wonder ! The textures and the flavours are perfect !

Rose in Paradise
Rice flour, sugar, rose-water

This desert is silky, tender and the rose water transports you in Ispahan…

Shabnam kindly gave us her Recipe of Rose in Paradise.

خيلي ممنونتم عزيزم / khaili mamnunetam azizam

The work of Shabnam is truly amazing and unique… Visually and the combination of flavours, tastes, textures.

Here is a video to discover Shabnam Saveurs…

Mille et une saveurs from Shabnam Saveurs on Vimeo.

www.shabnamsaveurs.com

Iperiber – Spain in Paris

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in Spanish .

Opened last spring, Iperiber is a nice and delicious Spanish restaurant.

Spain is so close to France yet, it is not so easy to find an authentic Spanish dishes.

This is restaurant opened with passion by Hugues Chapal, after a career in aviation.

In the kitchen, Gloria Fernandez Lago cooks her contemporary vision of traditional Catalan dishes.

To start a tortilla. Simple but very well cooked and tasty. The potatoes are melty but still firm and the tortilla not too greasy.

The main dish is called “rice from the sea”. The rice is cooked with sea bass, codfish and shrimps.

Is it a paëlla? A risotto ? We don’t care… It tastes very good !

For lunch the prices are excellent.

A main dish and a drink is 13€ and a full course (starter, main, desert and drink) 19€.

Iperiber
46, rue de Montmorency
75003 Paris

Tue – Friday: 12:00pm – 2:30 pm, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Sat: 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Closed on Sunday, Monday and Saturday at lunch.

01 42 72 18 10

www.iperiber.com

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Sushiken – An authentic Japanese

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in Japanese .

Sushiken, an authentic Japanese sushi restaurant near the Parc des expositions at Porte de Versailles.

If you are in a business trip and going everyday to trade shows… You must be really tired of eating industrial sandwiches.

If you can take 1h lunch break, I strongly recommend you to take a japanese fresh lunch or a diner at Sushiken!

Beware there is a lot of fake japanese restaurant and Sushiken is a REAL one ! I insist because this restaurant is a Mr Saito’s family business and they put all their heart in it.

Chef Saito sama,

is a former of Orient Extrême, Nobu and Meiji in Paris.

Chef Saito san and his wife dishes are Japanese classics: sushi, sashimi but also yakitori, teriyaki and tonkatsu…

The products are super fresh, perfectly worked.

The tea 2.5 € per person.

The salad is fresh with a japanese sweet and sour dressing.

A delicious japanese green tea, at will. Deep aromas and this perfect smooth and thickness…

Not one of those watered colored flavoured water !!!

Chirachi course with miso soup and salad – 16€
Menu Chirashi avec soupe miso et salade -16€

The miso soup is dense, tasty with nice pieces of tofu.

The fish and all the ingredients are high quality.

Excellent tastes, textures, and freshness.

Sashimi moriawase – 19€

The fish is so fresh and with the perfect size, thickness and cut.

So lucky ! The chef had received someうに (uni), sea urchin and we had the luck to taste it. It was so fresh and so tasty.

The great service led by the daughter of Mr Saito is warm and with care.

SUSHIKEN

12 Rue Ernest Renan, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

01 46 42 58 18

I recommend to take a reservation. There is a take out service.

Mon: 12 pm – 2:30 pm

Tue – Frid: 12 pm – 2:30 pm, 7:00 pm – 09:30 pm

Sat: 7:00 pm – 09:30 pm

Closed on Sundays

http://www.restaurant-japonais-issy.fr/

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Sassotondo – My Sunday lunch in Tuscany

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Karin Shibata Posted in Italian .

Sassotondo has become my favorite Italian Sunday lunch…

Sassotondo est devenu mon déjeuner dominicale italien favori…

The place

There are a lot of italian restaurants in Paris. Good ones are rare and too often, you get oversold pizzas and industrial pastas.

Sassotondo has warm, authentic atmosphere with a twist of chic.

Michel Dalla Valle

The chef, Michel Dalla Valle friendly welcomes you in his “Taverna Toscana”…

Michele Dalla Valle makes you discover traditional dishes of Tuscany region and his city, Pisa.

Quality olive oil

The dishes are tasty, refined, and full of soul.

During Christmas, the courtyard for the restaurant…

At lunch you have an 18 € course with a starter and a main course.

Instead of having multiple dishes, the lunch menu has 5 starters and 5 main courses of the day.

There can be supplements for some dishes from 2€ to 5 €.

Starters

Nice Italian delicatessen: Fiocchetto with oven baked eggplants – Mortadella with roasted pumpkin

The meat is perfectly sliced by the chef (thiiiin !!!) with the splendid meat slicer.

Marinated swordfish, Borlotti bean salad / Espadon mariné, salade de haricots Borlotti

It’s fresh and so tasty.

Bruschetta with ricotta cheese and smoked duck / Bruschetta de ricotta et canard fumé

Sea brass fritters with tarragon pesto / Beignet de bar et pesto d’estragon

Duck breast and soft polenta – Magret de canard et polenta moelleuse

Main courses

Poultry with Nonna Soriana tomato / Volaille à la tomate de Nonna Soriana

Scallop, red kuri squash and Colonnatta bacon / Saint-Jacques, potimarron et lard de Colonnatta

The perfect fall dish ! The scallops are perfectly cooked.

Risotto with radicchio (Italian chicory) and gorgonzola cheese.

It’s soft, tasty. Rich but not heavy.

Rigatoni all amatriciana (tomato based sauce with pork and pecorino from Lazio region, in the south of Tuscany).

Very tasty and the pecorino spiciness is equilibrate.

Spaghetti with simmered cod / Spaghetti au mijoté de cabillaud

A delight ! It is like a light fish stew sauce !

And of course Italian wines.

An excellent Sicilian wine: SP 68 from Occhipinti Arianna.

Coffee with cookies.

Fresh, quality ingredients, smart recipes. Meats and pastas are always perfectly cooked (Al Dente !!!)

An equilibrium of authenticity and chic in the dishes. Excellente quality / price.

SASSOTONDO

40, Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud

75011 Paris

Wed – Sun: 12:15 pm – 2:30 pm, 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Phone 01 43 55 57 00

www.sassotondo.com

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Shabu Sha – A Shabu Shabu in Paris? パリでしゃぶしゃぶ？

Shabu Shabu… Errr… But first what is it?

Appetizers

All you can eat menu / Menu à volonté / 食べ放題のシステム

Drinks

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18 € lunch & 25€ dinner all you can eat menu

Shabu Sha

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Never judge a coffee by its cover

Paperboy

Non-existent service

Pasta or Scrap ?

In the Marais trendy district

A Japanese chef

Arnaud Lallement, the only new 3 starred chef

Paris young and trendy chefs !

Japanese chefs

A hair in the soup…

Persian cuisine

Shabnam Hashemi – A culinary artist

Design, gastronomy and authenticity

Delights…

Chef Saito sama,

SUSHIKEN

The place

Michel Dalla Valle

At lunch you have an 18 € course with a starter and a main course.

Starters

Main courses

SASSOTONDO

18 € lunch & 25€ dinner all you can eat menu

At lunch you have an 18 € course with a starter and a main course.