Le Grand Restaurant - Jean-François Piège

Location in reality looks less bold, table arrangement a bit boring, service sometimes hectic. Food was too experimental for my taste, I couldn't entirely enjoy. It seemed as if the menu was fully designed to follow a cause, and the food taste got lost on its way. Presentation was beautiful though - and different. [Visited in June 2024, restaurant had 2 Michelin stars at that time]

Very nice place excellent service but overall the food experience was not good enough for a 2 star Michelin restaurant. Certainly not for its high end pricing. The 12 dishes menu included more than 20 different items. Each of them was a piece of art. Complex portions from the best ingredients cooked to perfection, and served beautifully. But the end result which is the taste, was a little disappointing. Some dishes were very good, others were only good, But on none of them we could say WOW. That WOW for which one dines in a Michelin stared restaurant. This WOW for which one is willing to pay so much for a meal was missing this evening.

I had the pleasure of dining at Le Grand Restaurant, and it was an exceptional experience that transported me through the flavors of France. Each dish was a delightful surprise. The food quality was outstanding, the attention to detail was remarkable, and the presentation was a work of art. I couldn't help but appreciate the creativity and passion that went into every course. I highly recommend!

A very enjoyable experience. Interesting flavors, great service and presentation and the dishes told a fun story. Mind you definitely on the higher end of 2 Michelin star pricing !

As a Michelin 2 star restaurant, it's great especially the service and creative cuisine. The restaurant has excellent cuisine delivered in a unique way, and has something exceptional to offer — it's “worth a detour” to visit while traveling. Nice experience being here for fine dining and stunning tableware.

The food was really amazing & creative. The plates, pitchers, etc were all fun and creative as well. We had a course in the kitchen with the chef.

The pros : great cuisine, great service. An effort to innovate in the presentation, an impressive variety of products, all carefully sourced, prepared and presented. Bringing to your table the authentic flavors of nature, with dishes evoking the sea and the earth. Chef was present in the kitchen as we left. The cons : on the pricey side, a glass of champagne for fifty four represents a very high multiple.

I went to the restaurant with no particular expectation. I didn’t know the chef and the location was not at the top of the Eiffel Tower :) But what a surprise, such a delightful experience. First the service and staff, just perfect. Friendly, communicating the passion of the chef, and just attending to every detail. I rarely pay particular attention in reviews but here it really elevated the experience. Of course the food is the showstopper. Visually impressive but it’s the delicate balance of flavours, the choice of amazing ingredients and the art of bringing out the best out of every elements. The langoustine is my personal favorite and a dish that will stay with me forever. A true delight of the senses and a must stop in Paris.

Phenomenal Michelin 2-star experience. Chef Jean François Piège has created an overall journey that combines the ultimate in artistic, biophilic, and culinary uniqueness. He has redesigned the kitchen at the front of the restaurant, and you are greeted warmly by those in the kitchen as you enter. Suchly a lovely start to the experience. Also, he is the only head chef in my experience who invites each person to come visit the kitchen for a tasting, making it personal and interactive. The thoughtfulness and unique touches put into the surroundings are exquisite: chairs that swivel comfortably, the Dior water carafes with their hand-blown animals & flowers, the salt boxes with their weekly changing salts, exquisite knives, and of course the faceted geometric ceiling is the crème de la crème. The culinary experience is all that you would expect from a Michelin 2-star restaurant -- but it is everything else about Le Grand, Chef Jean François Piège and the kindness of his entire team that make this one of the most unique experiences you will have in your lifetime.

The service did not match any other two-Michelin-star restaurants in Paris; food would fall over when presented to the table, and staff would forget what they were supposed to do, even opening the front door that had to be buzzed in. The atmosphere is great but staff would leave things scattered on empty tables, and the food was sometimes great, but sometimes also did not live up the concept. Overall, it was an okay experience, very distracting, and could do without. We started people watching and noticed our neighbors weren't enjoying themselves either: someone just shook his head at the end of the meal after throwing his napkin on the table; we were more polite.

Let me begin by reminding readers that: 1. This restaurant has 2 Michelin Stars 2. An abridged menu, and wine pairing, with coffee, costs 516 Euros. Any evaluation has to be based on the above premises. And I have to say that I have NEVER been more disappointed by ANY restaurant on the Michelin Guide as much as I have been by Le Grande, let alone one rated 2 stars by Michelin! To begin, let's talk about "portion sizes". I have never experienced such appallingly small (almost non-existent) portion sizes at ANY fine-dining restaurant. It's an immediate pathway to annoy someone who is paying north of 500 euros for a dining experience. I have never left a fine-dining venue "hungry", except this one. Literally, if you come here, you need "dinner" after this. Second: this is perhaps the only venue I have been to where "bread" and a spread is counted as a "course". What a joke! Several (every single one that I have been to in Switzerland, for example) Michelin star restaurants give you choices of different types of home-made bread, with different spreads, without even writing it on the menu! Instead, here, they rip you off by using bread as (at least one, and I would say two, if you dissect the menu carefully) "course(s)"! Third: You will be paying for the "chef's collectibles", in part. They will show you his collections of "salt and pepper containers", "steak knives", etc. Instead of attending to provide a "culinary" experience to remember, they will try to impress naive people with silverware! If you do an audit of their pricing structure, they will surely include this as part of the "experience", somewhere in their "accounting". Fourth: probably the biggest--and one that I alluded to before--the price, and the value you get for it! By God's grace, I am one of the fortunate ones for whom money isn't an issue. Yet, for many people, such fine-dining experiences are once or twice in a lifetime! And if you choose this place, based on the Michelin Guide, boy, will you be disappointed, feel CHEATED, and left with a bitter taste in the mouth towards the fine-dining industry! To me, this is a disservice and a disgrace to the outstanding chefs out there, who really do provide "out of this world" experiences to people who step inside their venues! Let me give context here, so that people realize what's going on, and why I took the time to write this. Take a train trip of 4 hours from Paris, and reach the town of Lausanne in Switzerland. Take a bus to Crissier, and you will find a "3 Michelin star" restaurant: "Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville de Crissier". Make yourselves a booking there! For a full menu, wines, and coffee, you will pay 489 CHF. And I cannot even EXPLAIN the difference in experiences you will get! At Crissier, you will remember the experience for a LIFETIME; you will be treated to one "substantive" course after another; there will be unlimited (diverse, flavored) bread--NOT counted as a course; and boy, will you feel "satisfied" after the last dish has been served. And I cannot even begin to describe the "taste", "presentation", and things of that nature here! Another "expensive" city in the world: San Francisco, USA. Take yourselves to the 3-star rated Atelier Crenn, or the 2-star rated Acquerello or Californios. You will see that it is literally a NIGHT AND DAY difference. And all three cost LESS than this place! To Michelin: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH YOUR QUALITY CONTROL? How does a restaurant like this get 2 stars? You need to check, as to how much bias exists in your ratings, when it comes to Paris! Send the SAME judges to the restaurants I mentioned, and have them provide a comparative rating. Take price into consideration! This place does not even deserve to be on the guide, let alone have "2 STARS"! The Michelin Guide used to be "sacred" to me till this day, as ALL the restaurants I have been to before (several that I don't even have space to write about in detail here) are above a VERY HIGH bar! How does a cheat of a restaurant like Le Grand get into such a coveted list? It's a pathetic outlier; a disgrace to fine-dining!

One of the best restaurants I've been in Paris in terms of service and the quality and creativity of food.

It's not a big rather small cozy restaurant, probably about 10 tables, the restaurant's decor is pretty simple but with a cool geometric ceiling. Be aware when the wine connaisseur come to you with selections of champagnes, it may seems like it's on the house but it's not, it will cost £52 for a small glass. We were three for lunch and we opted the most top menu $450€ plus wine pairings. The menu we picked it's chef's inspiration plus better ingredients than the one below so we didn't have names for some of the savory dishes. The waiter explained us, the chef has created each dish inspired from different region, mostly seafood except the sweetbreads, every dishes has a fun fancy names and artistic presentations, unique plates , serve wares and each one of us got a knife from a different region made from a local craftsmen. Everything was good with rather simple ingredients, the dish we all enjoyed the most (even our waiter said so), was the langoustine unique presentation with very buttery flavor, and the last savory cours was sweetbreads which was our least favorite, my daughter and I we took one bite and we couldn't take a second so that kind of forced my husband to finish his but he didn't really appreciate the taste either. Sweetbreads is considered a delicacy but it's not everyone's taste and serving a whole giant piece on a plate like that looks pretty on the presentation but when you taste a bite in your month it's like eating a piece of fat raw taste in the center plus the rich sauce that didn't go well in my opinion it's not a pleasure in your month. Desserts are great, again to me they rather simple ingredients served in a unique way or in a nice presentation. they also give a tour of the kitchen for the guests, the sous-chef prepared a light simple tuna ice-cream like dish for guests to enjoy while watching the kitchen crew working. I'd said over all the experience was ok, the service was great it's a stander for 2 Micheline stars restaurant, the food wise, there's not enough substantial and high quality ingredients that are worth for the price.

Very creative food. Nice in general though salty at times. Service hospitable but not as attentive as expected given size of venue, status and price. (Eg White wine left unchilled for three hr dinner). All very kind and nice experience but should be just a bit more refined all around for price

I'm obsessed with this restaurant! My best friends were visiting from Atlanta in which I've heard are incomparable. However, I brought her to Le Grand and she was beyond impressed. Our lovely waiter not only was impressive, but he also gave us skincare lessons while at it. The steak was my favorite!!! Love Le grand! Coming back!!! Xx

Beautifully choreographed service, the food was amazing, not "amazing" but truly amazing. We thought we dropped the mike with the selection, but they dropped the mike with the good and service.