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Arpège (restaurant)
Restaurant in Paris, France
| Arpège | |
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| City | Paris |
| Country | France |
Arpège (French pronunciation:[aʁpɛʒ], Arpeggio) is a 3 Michelin-star French restaurant in Paris. The chef is Alain Passard. It was previously known as L'Archestrate by Alain Senderens. Passard bought the restaurant from Senderens in 1986.[1]
It earned one star in the Michelin Guide in its first year, and earned two soon thereafter. It earned three Michelin stars in 1996, which it has maintained since.[2][3]
It was voted the 8th best restaurant in the world, in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2018.[4]
Arpège is noted for being suitable for vegetarian and vegan dining.[4]
In popular culture
[edit]Two of its chefs have been challengers on Iron Chef, the popular cooking competition show on Fuji TV in Japan. Passard represented France in the 1997 Iron Chef World Cup in Kyoto and beat American Patrick Clark with homard lobster as the theme in the Western semifinal before tying Iron Chef Japanese Komei Nakamura in the final with foie gras as the theme. Passard then faced Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai as the final challenger with long gang chicken as the theme in a battle to determine the world's best
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Arpège
Awards: 3 Michelin Stars
Rating: 97/100
Verdict: There may not be a more divisive three-star restaurant in France than Arpège. Most Michelin restaurants stamp out any unpredictability, striving to find precision and perfection in the predictable (see The Table for the best example of this). That is not the case at Arpège where Chef Alain Passard and his kitchen team fly by the seat of their pants, sending out a stream of dishes seemingly at random while taking advantage of whatever is a season. This approach means depending on the day, you get a very different experience. The focus on fresh produce delivered daily from Passard’s garden means certain ingredients repeat themselves throughout the meal. If that ingredient is tomato, you are thrilled. If that ingredient is onion or potato, you might have a different feeling.
This Russian roulette style of fine dining means my experience will not be yours. There are plenty of people who did not like Arpège (just look at this scathing click baiting review by eater). That said, I was enthralled by the meal. Food was actually cooked a la minute rather than in water baths. The staff listened to your input and incorporated requests into the dishes sent out. The kitchen even went off the menu, preparing raw lango