Restaurants - Paris e-guide: The Travel Guide with its Own Website - page 35

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9 C2

Lucas Carton haute cuisine
9 place de la Madeleine, 8ème • 01 42 65 22 90
www.lucascarton.com
Open lunch & dinner Tue-Fri; dinner only Sat & Mon

Alain Senderens believes passionately that fine food
merits fine wine: he looks for hints of dried fruit, herbs
or toasted nuts in wine and then marries them with the
real thing. Thus, each dish here is accompanied by a
wine that harmonizes perfectly with it; a late-harvest
Gewurztraminer with its rose-lychee bouquet teamed
with roasted foie gras in an exotic fruit vinaigrette is a
match made in heaven. The food is the perfect
partner for one of the most lavish dining rooms in
Paris - boasting curved Art-Nouveau wood partitions
with glass-encased butterflies and rich, merlot-
coloured banquettes. Senderens bought the
restaurant in 1985, perhaps as a nostalgic nod to the
time he spent here as a young saucier for the
renowned chef Soustelle. Twenty years later, the
apprentice is now the acclaimed master. Expensive

8 G3

Savy regional traditions
23 rue Bayard, 8ème • 01 47 23 46 98
Open lunch & dinner Mon-Fri
An old-fashioned bistro, both in decor and disposition,
that provides welcome relief from the 24-carat
designer shops and salons of nearby avenue
Montaigne. Comfort food, from coddled eggs to rib
steak with bone marrow and matchstick potatoes, is
served up in comfortable surroundings. Moderate

3 C5

A Toutes Vapeurs all steamed up
7 rue de l'Isly, 8ème • 01 44 90 95 75
Open until 11pm Mon-Sat
Waistline-watchers and the health conscious love the
little paniers (baskets) of vegetable, fish and meat
combinations at this self-service eating house - all
cooked while you wait. Choose a pre-prepared basket,
a flavoured oil and, presto, it's in and out of the
chrome “dry” steamer in minutes. Cheap