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Michelin Red Guide for France 2008


John Talbott

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I was there a couple of years ago and didn't find it very impressive. I'll have to try again.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it." ALFRED JARRY

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Le Restaurant was mentioned in The Daily Telegraph today : Michelin star for Paris Marmite hotel

"A Paris hotel famous for serving Marmite for breakfast won a Michelin star yesterday. The Michelin guide, whose 2008 French edition was published yesterday, awarded the culinary accolade to Le Restaurant at the British-owned L'Hotel, the Left Bank establishment where Oscar Wilde spent his final days.........The palate behind the Michelin star, however, is not British. The head chef Philippe Bélissent is a 30-year-old rising star from Burgundy. He came to Le Restaurant from the three Michelin-starred Ledoyen in Paris, where he was sous-chef. His six-course degustation menu starts at £70 a head......."

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I just bought Michelin's latest endeavor, the magazine "étoile".

This first edition features articles on Jean Georges Vongerichten, Gérald Passédat and Jean Luc Rabanel, a recipe and story on Paul Bocuse's truffle soup, articles featuring London, Burgandy, Turin, Marseille and the Luberon. I've just started glancing through it, but would definitely buy it again.

www.parisnotebook.wordpress.com

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For those who can't get it, here's the link.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it." ALFRED JARRY

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