Le Gabriel - La Réserve Paris Hotel and Spa

75008 PARIS

18/20
Prestige Restaurant

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5 PHOTOS

Chef Jérôme Banctel

Cooking French | Gastronomic | specialty | Traditional

Services For people with disabilities | Valet parking

Price Indicative price per person (excl. drinks)

98€ à 338€

Gault&Millau's review

18/20

Prestige Restaurant It's almost an understatement, but we've rarely seen Jérôme Banctel so relaxed and fulfilled. A chef nominated for the title last year, rewarded by our friends from Clermont-Ferrand this year, it's a great time for the master of the Elysian spotlight in the beautiful Hôtel particulier on Rue Gabriel. The chef's confidence is evident: he can start the scenario with a tomato, and everyone understands that it will be the best in the world; he can play with carrot and ginger, before sending in the cavalry: abalone and Kristal caviar lentil salad, langoustine white peach and verbena, a great delicacy, an unsuspected harmony, red tuna eggplant and arugula pesto before the very "banctelian" reference dish, tasty surf and turf between squid tagliatelle and duck jus... The princely setting of the home of Michel Reybier (owner, among others, of Cos d'Estournel and the Geneva and Tropezian "Reserves"), under the signature of Jacques Garcia (admire the neo-classical details, the superb library) is matched by equally noble, precise and attentive service to accompany these flawless dishes, with pleasures that are sometimes almost primal (suckling pig from Burgos with black rice and tamarind jus....) to desserts just as intensely crafted (a beautiful variation on vanilla). A flawless cellar, highlighting the estate's Bordeaux wines of course, but covering all the great vineyards with erudition and depth.