Japanese chefs, cuisine and sensibility in Paris.

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

Comments

[exquisite lollipop]

just visit Les Degres de Notre Dame today, very nice discovery. and was told that they are from the same group of sola.

as the owner of sola opened a sake bar just beside pantheon, have you visited it already?

Thanks for the idea

[John Talbott]

Actually lollipop, I have not; I heard about it but since I'm an idiot about wine, I'm an imbecile about sake.

But I did not know about the Sola connectuions - one of my top places of 2011.