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"After stints in the kitchens at Racines des Prés, Le Saint James, Le Meurice, and Lasserre, chef Matthias Marc, 25, has opened this chic restaurant with indigo walls and white marble tables in the silk-stocking 16th Arrondissement. There’s a a superb list of Champagnes, including the cuvee by winemaker Jacques Selosse from which it takes its name, and a daring modern bistro menu. Working in an open kitchen behind a counter of red Italian marble, Marc sends oysters poached in their own juices with horseradish cream and pickled beets; free-range Normandy chicken with celery root, roasted in a crust of salt, alongside scorched onions and peppery nasturtium leaves; and tart tatin made with cider and fermented apple juice. The restaurant’s immediate popularity proves that this sedate eastern Parisian neighborhood is getting a new gastronomic zeitgeist." - Alexander Lobrano
