Le Meurice Alain Ducasse

Beautiful location with pastries from Cedric grolet. Brunch was 120 euros if I remember correctly, book ahead of time. The building itself and service is 5/5. Food was good but since it’s traditional french- nothing that surprises you. That being said it’s definitely a full meal with lots of options. Desserts by Cedric were the highlight for me. They gave us so many and most of us took the desserts home as you simply can’t finish them all :) great spot for a special occasion

An amazing experience! A magnificent Degustation Menu with Champagne. Every dish was a unique sensorial and flavourful experience perfectly complemented with champagne. The service was outstanding and super nice. The chef was very nice and super talented. Well worth and well deserves the two stars Michelin. I truly recommend this restaurant!

If I can put a ZERO on this review I would. Disgraceful handling of our dinner reservation for a 2 Michelin star (formerly 3-star) restaurant!! Absolutely disingenuous!! We arrived with reservation email to proof, but they shockingly pretended we cancelled our reservation, but I believe they in fact very likely overbooked!! Their flagrant dismissal of proof of our reservation, disrespecting of our time, and nonchalance of us giving a poor review (we highlighted this be done), proves their arrogance and that their brand is beyond recovery. I truly hope my review and others highlighting similar experiences gets picked up by Michelin, and factored into the next Michelin Star review. This is no Michelin Star behaviour! My advise to those with reservations is to visit the restaurant in-person a few days prior to your booking and ensure that they have not cancelled your confirmation without informing you. Suggest you also take a photo of your reservation flashed on their tablet to ensure they cannot cancel under the pretence you did. This really leaves a terrible taste in my mouth and shows how they think their reputation is above the customer. I wonder what Mr Alain Ducasse himself would think of this type of behaviour…

The food started out amazing. Then all of a sudden it just got terrible. Food Duo of tartlettes - Great start to the meal; appetizers were on point and subtle flavors to tickle the tastebuds. Oyster with kiwi relish - Refreshing. Salty sweet oyster balanced with macerated kiwi. Sea bream / beet root / smoked yogurt - Delight for the senses. Presented on a pillow made of ice, the sea bream was served like sashimi on top of a bed of chopped beetroot swimming in a yogurt and beetroot soup. Warm mallard and foie gras pâte / bitter salad - The duck and foie gras pâté was deliciously balanced. Chunks of mushroom and duck mixed with the creamy pâté in a crispy crust. The bitter salad of arugula also helps keep it light. Savory without being too heavy. Sea bass from Opal coast on the griddle / gourd / sea urchin/ lemon - This was okay. A chunk of sea bass paired with sliced squash ribbons and squash sauce. The sea urchin didn’t really add anything other than texture. I didn’t get enough acid in this dish. Crispy blue lobster / celery / chanterelle mushrooms / bone marrow / lovage - Amazing; herby chanterelle mushroom sauce added depth of flavor and the crispy chips placed on top of the lobster was an amazing textural contrast. Both elements enhanced the lobster meat. Clam with horned melon - This is where the meal started falling apart. They show a display of large clams and horned melon. They then present everyone at our table with the tiniest single clam. It pretty much had no taste and just chewing on the tiniest morsel of clam meat and some seeds of the melon. There was no flavor from the clam, and no discernible sourness or sweetness. Boiled chicken with riced cauliflower and black garlic sauce - One of the worst things I have ever eaten. Chicken was dry. Black garlic sauce was bitter and tasted disgusting. I’m not even sure how the cold riced cauliflower was suppose to complement the dish. Herbal soup - While this was intriguing from an experience sense of bringing a reverse siphon apparatus to the table, the herby mix of lemongrass, rosemary, ginger, and other spices - this tasted like Chinese black chicken medicinal soup. Cheeses - These were fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Coconut ice cream with shredded coconut and some pepper? - This tasted almost amazing. The coconut ice cream? Yes. The shredded coconut? Yes. The acidic pepper gel drops? Yes. Except they were too sour and blew out my palette. Conceptually made sense but they needed to temper the sourness on the drops. Cocoa pod flower - This was delicious. Coffee ice cream inside a solid chocolate shell. Deceptive visual presentation of a giant coffee pod shell surrounded by regular coffee beans was delightful. Atmosphere The restaurant is located in the magnificent and palatial architecture of the hotel of the same name, Le Meurice. The paintings and chandeliers add to the air of expected opulence and accented by glass sculptures to add a modern flair. Service First of all, what kind of a Michelin starred restaurant tells you there’s a menu and then says you’re not allowed to choose what items you want? This is atrocious considering how much the cost of the meal is. Most of the staff was fine, but there were a few that had really poor attitudes. We asked a few of the staff presenting the plates to repeat what they said because they were either too fast, too quiet, or had a really thick French accent. Some of the staff got really annoyed when we asked to repeat because we couldn’t understand them. I don’t think repeating a sentence two or three times with complicated ingredient names is an unreasonable request. The staff also didn’t check in enough after some plates were presented. We would have sent the chicken dish back but no one came to our table for over 10 minutes and it was getting late. When they finally came to check on us we just wanted them to take the plates and move on. Inability to choose any plates felt like being held hostage a little bit. Refusal of requests for individual choices is a bit extreme for the restaurant’s price point.