On a food website recently, a poster under the title of Fusion Food asked for suggestions on places that “that had the best of both worlds: French food for me with a Japanese flair for her." Many of us plunged in with ideas but I realized there was really a spectrum of places and here I’ve tried to codify them. All are places I’ve been to, most since 2010.
Restaurants that are almost purely French cuisine cooked by Japanese chefs:
L’Office
Au Passage
Vivant
Kei
Chez la Vieille (Adrienne)
58 Qualite Street
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Ribouldingue
Breizh Cafe
Restaurants that are almost purely Japanese cuisine cooked by Japanese chefs:
Yuzu
Concert de la Cuisine
Guilo Guilo
Enishi
Abri
Restaurant that is almost purely Japanese cuisine cooked by French chefs:
Qui Plume La Lune
Restaurants in between that have some Japanese products, herbs and spices:
La Clarisse
H. Kitchen
Les Degres de Notre Dame
Clandestino
Restaurants in between where French food is influenced by Asia/Japan:
Monjul
Carte Blanche
Restaurants with French chefs inspired by trips to the Orient:
MBC
Ze Kitchen Galerie
Restaurants in between that are ½ terroir ½ Japanese:
Passage 53
Le Kolo of Asafumi Tamashita
Restaurants in between in using raw veal & fish more than the usual:
L’Agape
Stella Maris
Atao
Restaurant whose original mission was to offer French and Japanese food separate but is more now like French food cooked Japanese style:
Sola
Japanese chef cooking French food with a Japanese flair or French food cooked by a chef who happens to be Japanese:
La Table d’Aki
