French Food Guides 2006 - Part 3 -

[John Talbott]

French Food Guides 2006 – Part 3 – Pudlo

This year’s Pudlo Paris and France 2006 just came out and there is lots of news. I am unable to relate verything, but will try to choose items most of interest to our members.

The big awards were as follows:

Les Ambassadeur’s Jean-Francois Piege as Chef of the Year

Goumard’s Philippe Dubois as Restaurateur of the Year

Le Comptoir du Relais and Yves Camdeborde for Event of the Year

l’Absinthe’s Caroline Rostang and Chez Serge’s (St Ouen) Caroline Montaldo as Hostesses of the Year

Les Racines as Bistrot of the Year

Au Vieux Chene as best price-quality ratio of the Year

Il Carpaccio as best foreign resto of the Year

The Duke’s Bar as Best Place to Meet of the Year

Arnaud Delmontel as best pastry-bakery (9th and 18th) of the Year

Sebastien Dubois (St-Germain-en-Laye) as Best Cheese maker of the Year

Then there are the Coups de Coeur:

1st Willi’s Wine Bar

2nd Gallopin

3rd l’Ambassade d’Auvergne

4th Napoli Food

5th l’Estrapade

7th Le Vin de Soif + La Taverna

9th l’Art des Choix

10th l’Hermitage

11th Le Temps au Temps

13th l’Appennino

14th Le Fils de la Ferme

15th l’Ami Marcel

17th Chez Cedric + Goupil

18th l’Oriental

19th La Cave Gourmand

20th Le Baratin

95 Auberge d’Enghein

There are also new places that got a plate (eg star): Auguste, Gaya par Pierre Gagnaire, Dominique Bouchet, Citrus Etoile, Il Ristorante, La Belle Epoque (in 78 - Chateaufort), Les Armes de France (in 91 – Corbeilles-Essonne) and Le Village (in 78 – Marly-le-roi) as well new places considered a good value: Temps au Temps, Vieux Chene, Fils de la Ferme, l’Ami Marcel, Chez Cedric, Goupil, + Caffe Peoria (in Boulogne-Billancourt - 92) and Le Clos Levallois (in Levallois-Perret – 92).

And finally, in the Schadenfreude Corner, are some of those places that were involuntarily demoted or eliminated: Hiramatsu, Jamin, Les Muses, Le Dome, Thierry Burlot + l’Amphycles or that lost their price-quality edge: Pre-Verre, Bistrot d’a Cote + La Famille.

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Looks a little shakey to me... then again when I met Pudlowski recently, he asked me to get him a three-star Michelin at the last minute on a busy night, and when I did, he said forget it, I feel like Vietnamese and went to Diep.

French Food Guides 2006 – Part 3 – Pudlo

This year’s Pudlo Paris and France 2006 just came out and there is lots of news.  I am unable to relate verything, but will try to choose items most of interest to our members.

The big awards were as follows:

Les Ambassadeur’s Jean-Francois Piege as Chef of the Year

Goumard’s Philippe Dubois as Restaurateur of the Year

Le Comptoir du Relais and Yves Camdeborde for Event of the Year

l’Absinthe’s Caroline Rostang and Chez Serge’s (St Ouen) Caroline Montaldo  as Hostesses of the Year

Les Racines as Bistrot of the Year

Au Vieux Chene as best price-quality ratio of the Year

Il Carpaccio as best foreign resto of the Year

The Duke’s Bar as Best Place to Meet of the Year

Arnaud Delmontel as best pastry-bakery (9th and 18th) of the Year

Sebastien Dubois (St-Germain-en-Laye) as Best Cheese maker of the Year

Then there are the Coups de Coeur:

1st Willi’s Wine Bar

2nd Gallopin

3rd l’Ambassade d’Auvergne

4th Napoli Food

5th l’Estrapade

7th Le Vin de Soif + La Taverna

9th l’Art des Choix

10th l’Hermitage

11th Le Temps au Temps

13th l’Appennino

14th Le Fils de la Ferme

15th l’Ami Marcel

17th Chez Cedric + Goupil

18th l’Oriental

19th La Cave Gourmand

20th Le Baratin

95 Auberge d’Enghein

There are also new places that got a plate (eg star): Auguste, Gaya par Pierre Gagnaire, Dominique Bouchet, Citrus Etoile, Il Ristorante, La Belle Epoque (in 78 - Chateaufort), Les Armes de France (in 91 – Corbeilles-Essonne) and Le Village (in 78 – Marly-le-roi) as well new places considered a good value: Temps au Temps, Vieux Chene, Fils de la Ferme, l’Ami Marcel, Chez Cedric, Goupil, + Caffe Peoria (in Boulogne-Billancourt - 92) and Le Clos Levallois (in Levallois-Perret – 92).

And finally, in the Schadenfreude Corner, are some of those places that were involuntarily demoted or eliminated: Hiramatsu, Jamin, Les Muses, Le Dome, Thierry Burlot + l’Amphycles or that lost their price-quality edge: Pre-Verre, Bistrot d’a Cote + La Famille.

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