ONE TINY STREET IN PARIS
1 Comment | Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 6:00 am
It seems strange that two of the best restaurants in Paris could be tucked onto the same small street in the 6th, but it’s true: on rue de Christine, traditional French cuisine both reigns and hides behind the façade of the winding streets.
First, there is Le Christine. The fancier of the two, Le Christine is just as haute gamme as any of the Michelin starred restaurants, but this little gem serves its high quality menu prix fixe at a much more reasonable price than the more famous bistros. The food at Le Christine is prepared with care; a menu that changes almost daily ensures that even lovers of this restaurant will never be bored, and there is always a surprise in the amuse bouche that is served before every meal.
“My upcoming book is on my mind. I have been working on it for a year now and it is about connecting with food. As a society, we have disconnected food with culture and only care about cheapness, convenience and speed. This is a book to re-connect you with food values and features great stories about my childhood in Post-war France, the best time ever to live in France. It is a story mostly of a great woman named Maman Blanc who was my mentor in every facet of my life. She devoted her life to her family. The book is not trying to educate people but to re-connect them with food in a fun and celebratory way. We have created diets which are terrible for us when if we were eating well, we wouldn’t need diets. The book will give back respect to food while still being an enjoyable read.”