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Gaya Rive Gauche

  • Address: 44 rue du Bac, St-Germain-des-Prés, Paris | Map It
  • Phone: 01-45-44-73-73

Fodor's Review:

If you can't fathom paying EUR 200 and up per person to taste the cooking of Pierre Gagnaire, the city's most avant-garde chef, at his eponymous restaurant, book a meal at this, his fashionable fish restaurant, instead. At Gaya Rive Gauche, Gagnaire uses seafood as a palette for his creative impulses: expect small portions of artfully presented food, as in a seafood gelée encircled by white beans and draped with Spanish ham, or cod "petals" in a martini glass with soba noodles, mango, and grapefruit. Don't miss the desserts, one of Gagnaire's great strengths. Aim for the main-floor room, with its fish-scale wall, natural lighting, and bar for solo diners.

  • Keep in mind: Reservations essential.
  • Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V
  • Closed: Closed Sun. and Aug. No lunch Sat.
  • Metro: Rue du Bac

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