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About that New Eiffel Tower Restaurant

January 4, 2008 at 12:01 PM | 1 Comment

Yesterday we told you about Alain Ducasse's new restaurant at the Eiffel Tower. It has an interesting back story, and it's certain to be better than the previous tenant. But those two pluses aren't making it any more palatable to Jaunted's Paris correspondent Monica Guy:

Okay, so the view's good. But for €155 or €190 (not including wine) you'd get a far better meal--or six--in a proper modern French restaurant. Such as my favourite-of-the-moment, the canal-side Hotel du Nord.

You want proof this place is just for tourists? For one thing, it closes at 21:30, which is when most French diners are just considering an aperitif.

And for another, Ducasse claims his new place is "100 percent French...in harmony with French wines." But the French aren't interested in 100 percent French any more--least of all in the matter of wine.

There you have it. Le Jules Verne restaurant: Great for rich tourists, bad for savvy Francophiles.

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Where: avenue Gustav Eiffel, Paris, France, 75007

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  1. ladidida

    Jaunted Member
    January 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM




    Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester

    Ducasse's restaurant at the Dorchester got fried by Jay Rayner in the Observer last week: "The festive lights are still twinkling down the lobby of the Dorchester Hotel right now, and if what you want is a rush of seasonal cheer, stay there and order a cocktail. For God's sake, do not open the door on the left, for through there is the nightmare of Christmas present, and probably of past and future, too. Through there, dressed in funereal shades of grey, is a restaurant called Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, and it is enough to make even the happiest of souls run screaming for the Prozac. Jolly it is not. Expensive and disappointing it most certainly is..."
    See:
    http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2232923,00.html

    Brilliant review to read, providing you're not Monsieur Ducasse of course.

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