Racine

Amazing experience with Racine. We book for lunch on the counter and watch the whole process how the chefs are preparing each dishes. Service is 5 stars and food is amazing! Definitely worth the price. Highly recommend to book ahead of time as we have seen people walk in and didn’t get a table. Thank you chef Kazu for the amazing food and presentation.

Excellent, definitely in our list of best Michelin star restaurants. All dishes were amazing, especially the starters and the desserts. We also took the champagne parring which was very good. Service was also on point and very friendly.

Excellent 2 star restaurant with every dish very meticulously prepared and crafted. Price is aligned with other 2 star. You will definitely taste and see the Japanese influence. Professional and warm service and you get to speak to the chef and he also cones to serve you too. We opted got cheaper wine and the sommelier was very helpful and great suggestions

Incredible journey between France and Japan in minimalist and small setting. We went there with 5 others guests for my sister’s 30th birthday at lunch time. Arrived at 12:45 and left at 5:45 with the 9-course menu which is actually a 12/13 courses menu. The combination of French & Japanese cuisine, two high precision ones, always create special emotions and this menu was another one, similar to Kei, that we tried before he got his third star. If I were to highlight two things it would be this: the cooking technique, with probably the most beautifully cooked lobster & langoustine that I have every tried. And the boldness of flavors, with for instance strawberry & beetroot mixed with pigeon. A special mention to the sommelier who succeeded in guiding us throughout the meal and proposed decently priced wines that paired superbly well with the meal (we went for bottles instead of the pairing) Food wise, this was worth a 3* restaurant to me. I’ll definitely come back.

I'm not disappointed at all, they have things more than I could imagine. Really, really good.

Did the 6 course tasting and the experience lived up to the bill of a 2 Michelin star restaurant. The food was exceptionally creative, with lots of unique flavors but the most impressive thing to me was the plating. Each dish was pure art. Read some recent reviews re: the staff and chef being unfriendly but I did not have that experience. The staff was highly professional and did not engage in a lot of banter, but were friendly and did their job exceptionally well. Spoke to the chef after dinner who asked in detail how our meal was. The whole experience lived up to the elegance that you’d expect from its stature.

What a great restaurant! Surprising dishes and I love the champagne pairings. We chose to go for the Suki menu with champagne pairing. We started with a lot of mise en bouche (small one biters) followed by not 1 but 2 amuses bouche! Every dish was great, bold flavors and very beautifully plated. I really loved the capers and anjovis in the dessert with raspberry and lychee (yes, in the dessert and it was great!). I would love to come back! A must try restaurant in Reims!!

We came with the highest expectations (not really a surprise given it is a two star restaurant), but left rather disappointed. The seven cause menu turned out to be about 20 individual dishes, all very intricate and complicated. And that was really the biggest challenge: dishes that were barely more than bite size consisting of 10 and more ingredients, sometimes with competing flavors. Of all the dishes we tasted, there was literally only one where we thought " wow, this is great, I want more of this". The rest just kind of floated along, it was clearly not bad but nothing was a culinary highlight. We ordered the individual wine with each course for 95 Euros, only to find out that we were charged for the champagne during the amuse bouche courses (3 of them) extra. One feels slightly cheated, not that the additional 40 euros per person really matter at a total price of $750 for two people for dinner, but it didn't feel right. Service was okay, but not more than that. It had none of the perfect orchestration one would find at a Bocuse or Robuchon where the service and the incredible attention to detail matches the perfection on the plate. Most disappointing however, was the arrogance of the chef. Racine is it tiny restaurant with six seats and less than 10 employees. The Chef came to the table twice to pour some sauce, never once bothered to say hello or to utter a word and did not have the gratitude to come to the table at the end. The team at Racine appears to have fallen in love with the fact that they have two Michelin stars and they are playing with food rather than celebrating flavors. Most importantly, they have forgotten that they are in the hospitality business and none of the dinner felt this very special touch, the spirit of warmth and generosity of arriving at someoned house and feeling just wonderful about the whole thing.

We had an absolutely incredible experience at Racine for my birthday dinner. The reservations open up several months in advance and fill up quickly, but if you keep checking the website, there are often cancellations within a week or two of the date. I ended up snagging one of these cancellation for my birthday, which was amazing! Racine does a single seating per evening, with only about 15-20 guests spread around tables at the restaurant. You are seated promptly, given a couple of options for a tasting menu, and offered both a by-the-glass and bottle wine list. Since we were in Reims, the by-the-glass champagne options were interesting and thoughtful, and we went with those rather than doing a wine pairing. The dinner itself is actually a series of individual bites of food, with each of the courses consisting of several different items. It was all absolutely beautifully designed, and the taste was phenomenal. The staff were exceptionally attentive, which is to be expected when there are only a few guests, and Chef Tanaka serves several of the courses himself, which was a nice treat. The ambiance of the restaurant is quite serene. It's a quiet place, it looks over a garden, and the tables are spread far enough apart to give a lot of privacy. It was a very relaxing meal overall. Despite the cost, I would definitely go back to Racine if I visited Reims and could get a reservation.

I've eaten here a couple times and it is a culinary experience that is so incredibly unique. There are three dining options. We chose the 165€ option. It was a 3-hr meal that was as beautiful visually as it was delicious. There are many Michelin starred meals I don't remember. I will not forget Racine. Truly special. Highly recommended.

We had one of our worst experiences ever at a restaurant today. Our reservation was cancelled an hour before our scheduled time. Our day was ruined, experience in Reims blemished and we left the region with a bad taste. We never received a confirmation email from the restaurant to confirm the reservation. On the day of reservation, the restaurant called us but we were in the wine caves and the phone call dropped seconds after it connected. We attempted to call back immediately after we came above ground but no one answered the phone. An hour later at reservation time, we arrived at the restaurant. We were told our reservation was cancelled and given to someone else. I have screen shots of my phone showing the call logs. The matradee insisted we failed to follow their rules. Even though we were the only party damaged in this experience, we received no apologies, no sympathy and only a lecture on the restaurant confirmation procedure. The service and experience are as important as the food for any restaurant. This review rating reflects our experience today.