🦞Street Food Edition: We all need some street food from time to time, accessible to everyone looking to eat well injected with a little fun & personality from the chefs. My favorite places in Paris to eat can be tacos, Vietnamese & Spicy Korean fried chicken, bao buns, smash burgers, doner kebabs and more … as ALWAYS, only fresh quality ingredients and something fresh to drink: 🥃 craft cocktails, 🍷natural wine, 🍺 artisanal beer. Check my street food highlights for all of these. 📷 Pictured is my absolute favorite « Why do, when you can overdo » sando at 👉 @moisesfez_homer ….just a little buttered lobster, spices and warm mayo on a homemade toasted brioche « roll » dressed with a LOT caviar. #sexystreetfood 🫶 #parisstreetfood #wheretoeatinparis #parisismykitchen #homerlobsterroll #parisstreetfoodtour #caviarprincess

💯 Sabrina Goldin and Stéphane Abby’s Carboni’s in the Marais is ridiculously good. Rich savory handmade pastas like this 1.) one big pasta sheet w/braised oxtail, mimosa egg mayo-lemon foam 2.)long raviolo with creamy blue cheese stracciatella & chili sauce 3.) lamb anolini & yogurt are just a few of the savory dishes they’re doing… and don’t even get me started on their veal milanese w/beurre noisette, capers, anchovies & lemon zest. The vibe is young and buzzy, the room is understated with candles while tilted mercury mirrors add glam. Perfect for date night or groups of friends. 🍷The natural wine list is deep too, with stunners like vintage Beru. 🥃After dinner head downstairs for craft cocktails at their Bar Sotto to drink under period brick vaulted ceilings and dance to their vinyl juke-box. Yes I know some of you aren’t coming to Paris specifically for Italian but they are using local French products - and lets face it, you can’t eat steak frites for every meal no matter how much you want to. 🙋‍♀️ Its popular with locals so advance rezzies are essential. Reserve directly in their site too, but don’t wait until its too late. 📷👉 @carbonis.paris @barsotto #carbonisparis #barsotto #wheretoeatinparis #wheretodrinkinparis

Viet cahn bap cai-style chou farci beauty from Chef @marine_gora at the new Gramme Paris 11th: using pig/shrimp stuffing & broth & a “secret” green oil. 👉 @grammeparis11 📷👉 @rtellier @marine_gora 🥃🍷 Open Wed-Sunday 9-15:30h/18-00h 🥳 #96 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 11th arr #newopening #choufarci #grammeparis11 #romtellier #marinegora #vietnamesefoodinparis #wheretoeatinparis #wheretodrinkinparis

🫶 Chef Sota and I have known each other for such a long time (way before Clown Bar.) A meal here makes me think of so many chef friends in Paris who came here from a faraway place…watching them arrive unknown, without friends, without a language, only a visa, a suitcase and a dream, then found their path without giving up… they grew and become entrepreneurs and consider themselves French chefs, rightly so. To pigeon-hole them as Japanese, or Mexican, Italian or American… not truly fair because the journey they’ve risked away from their home & family to endure & thrive is incredible. They are now French chefs. Part of a Paris family. Sota’s restaurant is Maison simply because he wants everyone to feel at home, with every seat, part of the heart of his home, his kitchen. Tonight we were all together. A kitchen team, clients who were strangers, and then friends. A team that shows up every day and puts in the work perfecting technique, flavors - everything in their craft. People who crossed town, oceans and continents to be here. And Sota’s courage to bust out of his Clown Bar menu so good no-one would let him change it. Now here we are. Rare for Paris, he cooks in a wood burning oven, its embers transferred to an Extebarri-esque grill. Its been a long time since I’ve been in because to be quite frank, I haven’t been in the mood for fine dining since Covid. Tonight I wanted to see my friend but in fact, it reminded my why I fell in love with restaurants and hospitality. Seeing a team work together seamlessly balanced with direction from a leader, and, laughter and camaraderie that goes from the kitchen to each guest’s face and experience blew me away. I simply forgot in our immediate gratification world of popups and social media what it means to be brave & constant. Highlights: smoked peas & caviar, Brittany lobster poached in butter, and a three hour indirect heat smoked Pyrenees trout with a texture like cream. Congratulations to the entire team @maison_sota and merci for bringing me back to my restaurant roots - extraordinary to be home. Maison. Maison Sota. 👉 @maison_sota #maisonsota #wheretoeatinparis

Chef Adam Purcell is Early June’s current chef-in-residence. Irish-born, Adam is my long time friend who worked at 🌟 Frenchie before joining Matt Orlando’s AMASS team in Copenhagen. The last few years it was a must to visit him there, learning about sustainability and latest fermentation discoveries. While precision cooking has always been his forté - his time at Amass bringing produce direct from their garden to the kitchen utilizing a zero-waste ethos and mostly 🌿 produce, plants & seafood - Adam’s menus are delicate, powerful and flavorful. He’s made his move back to Paris and his first week at Early June was a packed house night after night. "This experience is insane, so many people! I am loving it!" - what Adam said when he hugged me at the door. 👉 Slide in to his last week there (on Early June’s site if you are more than 4ppl), otherwise its a first-come first-served basis. 🚀 Pro Tip: Parisians eat dinner at 8-9pm and enjoy their meal for hours. If you "walk in" at 8-9pm there isn’t much chance of finding a free seat. I always say for the ‘no reservation’ places: Go early, go late, but in the middle you’ll probably wait. Early June is a vibrant buzzing wine bar, service is sharing plates on the table as they are ready. Check out our a la carte/sharing plates: - challons duck liver mousse & rhubarb chutney -fine de claire •3 oysters, cucumber granita -Landes region green asparagus, oyster emulsion -barbue crudo "dome", creamy cabillaud tarama underneath, dressed with sunflower seeds & squash-chili oil rayu (OMG) -broccoli & lemon agnolotti, toasted grains, parmesan -confit merlu fish, fennel hollandaise & sweet datterino tomatoes (main photo, WOW) -roasted challons duck breast, shitake & brilliant tonkotsu broth (brilliant) -chrysanthemum & cardamome ice cream (not pictured because I can’t eat dessert 😩) 👉 @earlyjuneparis @adampurcell91 🍷Natural, small producers ⏰ Dinner Wed-Sun 🚀 No reservations unless you are more than 4ppl, reserve on their site #earlyjune #earlyjuneparis #adampurcell #wheretoeatinparis #wheretodrinkinparis

Happy Fry-day!

🌶️ What a great night! Double Dragon & Manu Peña Fritto Club collab was insanely delicious! Rare gift for a restaurant to deliver an experience that makes you feel happier than when you arrived. Follow Manu for future popups followed by some big news for Paris. 👉 @maniu_ #manupena #frittoclub #doubledragon #parispopups

🙌🙌 What a night! In London for the first ever Septime-Frenchie popup dinner with Septime’s Co-Owners Chef Bertrand Grebaut & Somm Theo Pourriat and Frenchie’s Chef Owner Gregory Marchand - together at Frenchie Restaurant in Covent Garden. Thank you to the teams and to everyone who came. So many great dishes but here are some favs: -Warm Bacon & Maple Syrup scones with Cornish Clotted Cream -Isle of Mull Cheddar & Vin Jaune Gougeres, Hazelnut Craquelin -Beef Glazed Bbq Carrots, Morels, Egg Yolk Cream & Sorrel -Cornish Turbot, Elderflower Beurre Blanc, Spring Garden Greens 🫶🎬👉 @septimeparis @frenchiecoventgarden #septimeparis #frenchiecoventgarden

🔥🧨🌶️ Turning the heat up with Chef Erica Paredes shown here who is a guest at the table in her own restaurant on its first birthday 🫶 Menu dishes go to the 🚀 next level at her award-winning pretty little restaurant REYNA - which started as an apartment pop up but just celebrated one year. Her Filipino culinary roots top off this creamy burrata, the sticky kacap manis (an Indonesian sweet soy molasses sauce) with ginger, chili oil & chilis. Dairy + major heat = big time winner so popular she can never take it off of the menu…. and those spicy chicken wings? 😳 Congratulations Erica and team! Hard to imagine the Paris culinary family without you. 🎯 Advance reservations a MUST 🎬👉 @reyna.paris @ericaparedes 🙋‍♀️ #41 rue de montreuil, 11th arr (Same area as Septime/Bistrot Paul Bert) #reynaparis #ericaparedes #wheretoeatinparis #wheretodrinkinparis

🍝 One of the most enjoyable memorable meals in recent months - hours that passed at Early June without knowing it, words on a menu I didn’t recognize, handmade dishes and flavors created by a Chef I’ve never met, shared with new friends and the only photos taken until the last two courses of seven when we realized we’d been eating with gusto and simply didn’t think about photos. Grazie Chef @mitchelldamota and the entire team @earlyjuneparis for fostering and encouraging bringing together a new family, new knowledge and new experiences. Putting down the phone and letting go is my new new. 🫶 👉 @earlyjuneparis #wheretoeatinparis #wheretodrinkinparis #earlyjune #mitchelldamota #lettinggo

🎯 Starting tonight, Chef Mitchell Domata (P. Franco, Burro e Salvia Alum) is up next on the Early June pass for only weeks… you do not want to miss his trademark regional Italian cuisine. As always, Early June only accepts walk-ins starting 6pm and reservations for 4+ people directly on their site. Bienvenue a Paris Mitchell 🫶 📷👉 @earlyjuneparis @mitchelldamota 🎵Dream On - Aerosmith #earlyjune #mitchelldomata #wheretoeatinparis #wheretodrinkinparis

☀️What a delightful lunch at Cafe Les Deux Gares with one of my favorite humans @alice.feiring on her fast stopover en route to Georgia - she can make me laugh out loud like no-one else. 🫶 Love you sister. Merci to @fred_lavalise for the perfect table for us to catch up and to Chef @jonathanschweizer, I could eat this white asparagus dressed with vin jaune & toasted hazelnuts every, single, day. @timothyschweizer truly enjoyed your company and thoughts on moving the stereotypes of wine forward in a positive authentic way. Let’s not wait too long to do this again - an absolutely perfect lunch with friends, family, great food and beautiful wines. 👉 @cafelesdeuxgares #wheretoeatinparis #wheretodrinkinparis #cafelesdeuxgares #whiteasparagus #vinjaunesauce