Top 10-20 Restaurants in France - 2008

[John Talbott]

It's the time of year when everyone lists his or her top 10 or 11 or 20 tables.

Here are some that have already appeared.

Please add your list.

The best 20 tables of 2008, according to Figaroscope, were:

Best Bobo Mama Shelter

Best bistro Jadis

Best Thai Oth Sombath

Best snob Bar Laduree

Best Ducasse Jules Verne

Best haiku Shu

Best palace Le Cinq

Best one room Jeu de Quilles

Best reconversation Les Terrines de Gerard Vie

Best Kyoto/Montmartre Guilo Guilo

Best move Itineraires

Best shock Pizza Chic

Best annex La Veranda

Best Korean Sobane

Best comeback 153 Grenelle

Best face B Etc.

Best reprise l’Assiette

Best BCBG l’Agapé

Best open kitchen Bigarrade

Best Chinatown Lao Lane Xang 2

The best 11, according to Le Fooding, were listed as follows:

New wave Japanese – Guilo Guilo

Best haunted house – Hotel Faurie in Saint-Agrève

Best chef - Christophe Pelé, La Bigarrade

Best bistrot – Le Chat in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire

Best little luxe – Al Taglio

Best “Station-Sandwich” – Gouter l’Aveyon in the rest area at the Millau Viaduc

Best troquet – La Cantine du Troquet

Best blow-out – Chez Navarre in Toulouse

D'Honneur - Rose and Jean-Charles Carrarini Rose Bakery

Best “Planque Verte” – Le Grand Couvert / La Colline Du Colombier in Iguerande

Best Paris Bistrot – Jadis

The best 10 by Francois Regis Gaudry of l’Express:

The palace table - Le Cinq

Best bistro – L’Endroit – in Honfleur

Chic cantine - DZ'Envies – in Dijon

Best Japanese - Shu

Best pizza - Al Taglio

Successful move - Tartarin – in Le Havre

Young hope - Rémanence – in Lyon

Bistronomic - Itinéraires

Best troquet - La Cantine du Troquet

Best price-quality ratio - Bistrot Angélique – in Versailles

For what it’s worth, my top 11 meals (11 because no one, including me, can get into Adrien any more) were at:

Auberge des Saints Peres – in Aulnay sous Bois

Chez Lena et Mimile

l’Agassin

La Cantine du Troquet

Le Jeu de Quilles

L’Entêtée

l’Idee – in Levallois-Perret

Les Bouchons aka Le Restaurant de Philippe et Jean Pierre,

Hide aka Koba’s Bistro

La Table d'Adrien

Jadis