Le Pré Catelan

75016 PARIS

19/20
Exceptional Restaurant

12 PHOTOS

Chef Frédéric Anton

Cooking French | Gastronomic | Signature cuisine

Services Children's Menu | Disabled access | Pets allowed | Private Parking | Valet parking

Price Indicative price per person (excl. drinks)

185€ à 390€

Gault&Millau's review

19/20

Exceptional Restaurant What a magnificent place! What a hymn to French prestige! Frédéric Anton's table, this Belle Époque salon with its scintillating atmosphere and exceptional service, can't do without superlatives because it accepts them all. Better still, it's one of those rare places where eating caviar and lobster isn't vulgar. Because the chef, through his experience, his career and his talent, has definitively set his sights on a certain idea of France. That of the Eiffel Tower, where he runs the Jules Verne, of cruising along the Seine on his yacht "Don Juan II", and of the Pré Catelan, so dear to Marcel Proust, where he takes an astonished public through some of Paris's finest evenings. And there's not an ounce of bad taste in this luxurious debauchery, quite the contrary. The starter of tomato mozza, a superb two-course speckled plate with tartelette and candied cherries, precedes a fishless bouillabaisse, made only with an exceptional rouille (one of Paris's great 5-toques warned us of the incredible power of this cheeky dish). Each plate is a unique work of art: the tourteau caviar is obviously there, evolving over the years; the cod reinvents the brandade with finesse and just the right amount of spice, as does the salmon, delicately smoked with cherry wood, a bewitching perfume accompanied by a wasabi sesame emulsion; a melting squab with a roast whose extreme quality will be appreciated by game lovers. For the desserts, which are not very sweet, we found an inspired Max Martin, who has already won awards at Yoann Conte's, and who is as brilliant with rhubarb as he is with chocolate. The palatial cellar is almost original: no 5-figure bottles to show who's got the biggest, but a beautiful, vast panorama across the entire vineyard, enough to indulge in the great pleasures of connoisseurs, from €100 to €400 for most bottles, and nearly twenty choices by the glass.