Ibrik Kitchen

The 15 Hottest New Restaurants in Paris

"This new Romanian restaurant in the Sentier district — formerly Paris’s garment industry neighborhood and now one of its livelier and younger neighborhoods — looks a lot like an art gallery, with white-painted walls decorated with folk art, spotlights, and oak parquet. Working in an open kitchen, two award-winning young Romanian chefs are serving up what they describe as “neo-nostalgic” dishes, or riffs on traditional Romanian eats like pastramă, the roasted brined beef known as pastrami in most English speaking-countries, which comes to the table here covered with Transylvanian truffle shavings in a smoked-filled bell jar. There’s also sarmale, fermented cabbage rolls with meat-and-rice filling and a side of mămăligă cu smăntănă, a polenta-like cornmeal porridge with lashings of sour cream, and a rich nut-studded pistachio cake for dessert." - Alexander Lobrano