Astrance

Booked the place quite late, but had an amazing experience with the lunch menu which was reasonably price for a 5 course meal. Interesting choices, especially for the sea food starters. Absolutely loved the dessert as well. The limelight of the day was when we had the amazing surprise of the chef coming around to say hi and even offered to have a picture with us. He was so caring and nice to us. Thank you for having given us such an honour.

Had a great dinner here. After having a 7 course dinner yesterday we knew it was the wrong way to go and expressed it to our waiter. He suggested we go with the 4 course, the Saison for $175 per person. Started out with some cracker and mini bread. Both very tasty. Then it was off to the oyster, clam, snail dish. The oyster had some chopped celery on the bottom that made the oyster that much better. The snail was great. The clam was cleaned and chopped up and served in a half shell with juice. Very good. Then on the side there was raw fish on some thyme seasoning. Delicious! Then they served a piece of mini toast with shrimp integrated into it. Love the taste! Reminds me of dried shrimp. I didn’t take a picture of the bread they served with butter on the side. But the outside crunch was amazing and the aroma when it is in your mouth, fantastic! Next was Japanese rice in lobster soup. Could have been a little bit more flavorful, but good. It was sourced with some cucumber in a roll. Very flavorful. Next was lobster. It was a little under cooked. But if you eat it with the garnish, it is an amazing combination. Different flavors with each combination. Very good. It was served with a bowl of fresh coco beans in broth. They were good. The broth was heavenly. Next was a fish dish. The chef served this to us because of what we told him before about not being able to finish the 7 courses yesterday. So he made the decision to serve us something lighter, fish. The fish was very tasty especially with the sauce with a soy sauce base. They also served some picked vegetables on the side. The petal had a lot of orange peel taste. Time for the dessert, first the apricot was ok. The next one was fantastic! The pear on some kind of cookie. The combination was amazing! There is also a side of pear sorbet. So good! We were approaching our limit. Couldn’t finish. When we asked for the check they gave us another three desserts! Mini grapes! Super sweet! The red flesh peach, my first time seeing and tasting. It was bland after we had the grapes. The drink in the egg was really really good. Had jasmine flavor! Lastly a chocolate leaf. So good! What an experience. We go to meat the chef. He came out to talk with the customers to see how they are doing and how we like the food. I love it when the chef takes some time out to interact with their clients. Bravo. Highly recommend this restaurant. This was the best of all the 4 Michelin restaurants we went to in Paris.

What an incredible experience in this restaurant. The restaurant itself was beautiful, the staff were so welcoming and made everything that much better, Chef Barbot is amazing and his kitchen staff are very talented. We enjoyed every single second of this Michelin restaurant and he definitely deserves 2 if not 3 Michelin stars.

This doesn’t really need a review from me. Exceptional experience all round. Loved it.

Our third time here, and first in the new location. The restaurant is beautifully decorated, and the food is excellent, despite dropping to one Michelin star after reopening. We had the lunch menu, with wine pairings. The dishes were plentiful and great, and the wine went perfectly with them. As a bonus, we got to meet Pascal Barbot in the kitchen.

#130 in my Michelin Challenge of trying every Michelin in Paris (done but some reviews to be published). Follow me for all the reviews and updates on every Michelin Stars in Paris and every 3 Stars in France. The return of the prodigal son What’s interesting here? The trivia is that this restaurant in its previous location had up to 3 stars (it had 2 right before he closed before COVID). Hence the pricing and the crowd. I never went to the previous version and for a first time I took the lunch menu. I know, I’m cheap… 125€ lunch menu cheap. But the good news is that the wine list is full of good surprises. I didn’t take advantage of the it that day but I noticed some interesting bottles. The other nice touches is that the chef goes and greets every tables. For the rest, I think I was still thinking of a two stars I was a few days before and I may not have been focused enough. The service was nice, I saw some familiar faces from a palace. The crowd matches the district. Deserves its star

Had the most amazing tasting menu to celebrate my wedding anniversary! The chef even came out to serve one of our dishes and chat with us! Definitely recommend and will be returning!

The meal started off really well with some nice amuse-bouches, and I'm particularly impressed with the dressed crab meat with thinly sliced cucumber layered on top beautifully. However the dishes that came afterwards had no 'wow' factor at all. Everything was just ok. We went for the more expensive menu that consisted white alba truffles in two of the 8 course meal, yet these two dishes did not stand out at all: 1. Pasta with white truffle: tastes what you would expect but nothing else. 2. Farm chicken with truffle: also nothing special. Chicken is high quality and tender but doesn't pair particularly well with the truffle. The desserts were a disaster, especially the burnt madeleines. All other dishes were just average, if this wasn't a michelin-starred restaurant I'd give it a 8/10. But considering it's 3 starred and on the list of world's 50 best restaurant, it only deserves a 6/10. The hospitality wasn't great either.