Arpège
Creative · Vegetable-forward · Paris 7th · €€€€
Alain Passard has led Arpège, on Rue de Varenne close to the Musée Rodin, since the 1980s. He made history by putting vegetables at the heart of a three-star menu, supplied by his own kitchen gardens outside Paris and cooked with remarkable precision and simplicity.
The dining room is intimate, the menu follows the harvest day by day, and each dish shows how much flavour can come from a carrot, a beetroot or a tomato. A pilgrimage for anyone interested in modern French cooking.