What?
Pierre Gagnaire
6 Rue Balzac
75008 Paris, France
The Good
A very good tasting menu supplemented by some of the best service in the world. The fruit-flavoured bordier butter on brioche, the medallion of doe and the Pluma pig were standouts
The Bad
While there is no doubting that everything was perfectly prepared and plated with precision and excellent technique, the menu lacked any particular “wow” factor that I would have expected at its price point. I am certainly willing to return to the restaurant to give it another chance, but not at the expense of missing out on the other good restaurants Paris has to offer.
Notable accolades
Three Michelin Stars, Michelin Guide 2012
Number 16, S. Pellegrino’s The World’s Best Restaurants 2011
The Meal
Amuse Bouche #1
Amuse Bouche #2
Amuse Bouche #3
Bread selection
Large carabinieros shrimp Algarve flavoured with chestnut’s oil
Lettuce stuffed with autumn’s flavours, Pardailhan turnip and a quince infusion with badiane
The scallop
Corolla of scallops, water of Jerusalem artichoke and salsify with pink berries
Kernal cooked in the shell, broccolli mousseline, parmesan cheese gnocchi
Salpicon wrapped in a cucumber jelly; avocado, thai grapefruit and cambucci red pepper
A thick piece of pan-fried sole, juice of farm cider cut with foamy butter; velvety soup Pourpe and radicchio
Grilled duck foie gras, Gillardeau oysters speciales no. 4 flavoured with ginger
Crunchy vegetables and iced pulp of tamarillo
Red beetroot syrup with lime
Medallion of doe, juniper berries/cumin/Sarawak pepper, glazed Pluma pig
Marmelade of chicory and pineapple in bitterness
Crystallised thin slices of green apple and Agria potatoes
Brillat-Savarin cheese with gingerbread, a drop of Calvados flavoured with coffee, some Paris mushrooms
Stichelton
Stichelton cheese, marmelade of eglantine and morelllos, fermented milk
Caravac and sweet rave wrapped in a rice pancake with a blackcurrent juice
Les desserts Pierre Gagnaire – course 1
Les desserts Pierre Gagnaire – course 2
Les desserts Pierre Gagnaire – course 3
Les desserts Pierre Gagnaire – course 4
Les desserts Pierre Gagnaire – course 5
Migardinises
