Pierre Gagnaire Review

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Pierre Gagnaire

  • Address: 6 rue de Balzac, Champs-Elysées, Paris
  • Phone: 01-58-36-12-50

Fodor's Review:

If you want to venture to the frontier of luxe cooking today—and if money is no object—dinner here is a must. Chef Pierre Gagnaire's work is at once intellectual and poetic, often blending three or four unexpected tastes and textures in a single dish. Just taking in the menu requires concentration (ask the waiters for help), so complex are the multiline descriptions about the dishes' six or seven ingredients. The Grand Dessert, a seven-dessert marathon, will leave you breathless, though it's not as overwhelming as it sounds. The businesslike gray-and-wood dining room feels refreshingly informal, especially at lunch, but it also lacks the grandeur expected at this level. The uninspiring prix-fixe lunch (EUR 105) and occasional ill-judged dishes (Gagnaire is a big risk taker, but also one of France's top chefs) linger as drawbacks, and prices keep shooting skyward, so Pierre Gagnaire is an experience best saved for the financial elite.

  • Keep in mind: Reservations essential.
  • Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V
  • Closed: Closed Sat. and 3 wks in Aug. No lunch Sun.
  • Metro: Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile

Member Reviews and Ratings

Reviewed by davidgreen72 from Stockholm, Sweden on 6/30/07
We had to book two months in advance for a table fot two and it was definatly worth it. We chose the tasting menu and as a chef myself, it was excellent and beautifully exicuted...... what an experience!!!!!!! I would definatly go back again....... TRUST ME GO AND ENJOY

Member Rating: 4.8
Ratings details: Food: 5.0 Atmosphere: 5.0 Service: 5.0 Value: 4.0
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