Timothy Noonan
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Pure Astonishment. Astonishment until realization that this place belongs to Emmanuel Kouri, who has decamped from Paris to a farmhouse in Brittany for his next magic act.
He delivers the magic, and how! The population of restaurants worldwide worth traveling the world to visit is IMHO maybe 200. This is one of them. Its facade is a country house on a country road, a chicken coop at the end of the car park, an ambience that gives Merchant and Ivory colliding with Yves St Laurent. Class without ostentation.
The cocktail list is surreal, including artisanal
Vermouths that will make you feel that this is your very first, very best Negroni. The menus are Japanese in their flavor precisions, proportions and sequence. The service staff do not feel trained, they feel enrolled in Emmanuel’s commitment to this setting and experience - which legitimately blurs the line between gastronomie and performance art.
Absolutely unforgettable. If you can go there, go there.