Winner of the Fooding d’amour 2017 award
Behind the untreated wooden bar of this tiny café located off the buzzing Faubourg Saint-Antoine, you’ll find Omar Koreitem (ex-Sergent Recruteur, with the savory eats) and Moko Hirayama (ex-Yam’Tcha, with the sweets) casting a spell over the neighborhood with their comforting cuisine infused with Levantine details. The day we went for lunch, we had all of the following: fera from Lake Geneva prepared as a crudo seasoned with garlicky pistou made with green tomatoes, spinach and arugula, all topped with sumac-spiced slivers of raw cep mushrooms; free-range pork chop with blue foot mushrooms, roasted yellow carrots and jus de viande ¬– or a lovely line-caught swordfish plated atop pepper coulis and paired with coco de Paimpol beans and Romanesco broccoli; before Moko’s glorious cookies, an absolute must, made with oats, miso and black sesame or buckwheat flour and cranberries… // Rosa Poulsard
FEELING THIRSTY? Homemade orange blossom lemonade (€4 a glass), toasted buckwheat sobacha tea (€4 for an individual teapot) and a few natural or organic wines: an Austrian white from Meinklang (€30 a bottle), a Roussillon red from Matassa (€40)…
PRICE: Breakfast €4.50 to €13, à la carte €38-52 (lunch), set menu €70 (dinner).
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