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Restaurants

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La Famille globe-trotting hit
41 rue des Trois-Frères, 18ème • 01 42 52 11 12
Open dinner only Tue-Sat, dinner 1st Sun of each month,
brunch 2nd-4th Sun of each month

resulting in dishes such as pan-fried foie gras with
miso sauce, gambas pan-fried with passion fruit, and
chocolate custard with Espelette chilli pepper. Not
everything works all the time but any culinary near-
misses are easily compensated for by the fact that
dinner here is guaranteed fun. This is especially true
of the first Sunday of each month, when the entire
menu is served in tapas-like portions so that you can
really do Aizpitarte's creative endeavours justice and
graze your way through every dish. A help-yourself
all-day brunch of French pastries and egg dishes is
served on the other Sundays, making customers feel
that they are really part of the family. Since the spare
space is rather limited and word has already been out
for a while, it's essential to book. Moderate

Few Paris chefs have come to grips with fusion food,
which is why La Famille, in newly fashionable
Montmartre, has become such a hit. Young Basque
chef Inaki Aizpitarte has had his passport stamped
around the world, particularly in Latin America and
Morocco, and also worked with the inventive Gilles
Choukroun at Le Café des Délices before opening this
restaurant with his cousin (he's the one in charge of
the bar and the hip music). The short, constantly
changing menu combines French (and especially
Basque) ingredients with more tropical flavours,