Every Friday, a gastronomy actor entrusts his five favorite addresses in the capital. This week, it’s chef Amandine Chaignot’s turn.
By Laurence Gounel
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PAssessed by the greatest starred brigades, Amandine Chaignot was quick to impose her “joyful” cuisine in a place in her image – both pretty and quite raw – with Pouliche, one of the best bistronomic tables in the East of Paris (10e). Enduring, this mountain climber inaugurated her Café de Luce in Montmartre in 2021, and set up her Rosy & Maria table in the Carita beauty house last fall.
Next craving? Inaugurating “girls night” every month with winegrowers and dinners with four female hands. This leaves her little time to test new Parisian addresses, but this spontaneous chef claims anyway those who “smell the smile”, preferring a warm welcome to complicated dishes. For the rest, she relies on her habits…
His bakery: Bärä
“At the controls of this small corner: Timothy, the son of Thierry Breton who has provided us with the bread since the beginning of the Pouliche adventure. The selection is deliberately short, between its large breads with French flours and long fermentations, and a few pastries. It is delicious. Buckwheat gives breads that little toasted and brioche taste. There are also a few bakery pastries…”
6, rue de Belzunce, Paris 10e.
His pastry: Again
“My friend Ophélie Barès inaugurated her pastry shop in Asnières barely a month ago, and it is very generous. We worked together at the Hôtel Meurice a long time ago, and I remember it as a great technician. She delivers here a “simple” pastry (the most difficult to make), desugared, with clean and seasonal products. I like his vanilla flan, his great classics, as much as his few very sophisticated creations. »
5, rue de Belfort, Asnières-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine).READ ALSO The Paris of chefs – The good addresses of Thierry Marx
His market gardener: The Zingam Martyrs
“It’s my fruit and vegetable ‘shop’, but that’s not all. In addition to ultra-local and mature harvests, I also find small groceries and a selection of natural wines and craft beers. THE sourcing is irreproachable and the reception, exclusively female, very friendly. »
74, rue des Martyrs, Paris 18e.
His grocery store: G.Detou
“It’s the pantry of all the chefs in Paris. I have been coming back with pleasure since Benoît Bourloton took over this institution six months ago. You can find everything there, absolutely everything: salty, sweet, fresh truffles in the height of the season, unimaginable spices, all the good chocolate references… There are things that cannot be found elsewhere and I like hanging out there to get inspired too. . »
58, rue Tiquetonne, Paris 2e. 01 42 36 54 67READ ALSOThe Paris of chefs – What Pascal Barbot eats
His wine merchant: Caves Auge
“It is Jérôme, former head sommelier of the Hôtel Bristol, who welcomes and offers this cellar all its exclusivity. It has every possible reference, from low budget treasures to large flasks, to the most difficult to obtain allowances. There is also what he wants to display on his beautiful wooden shelves… and then the “deserved” nuggets, which he only sells to those he finds sympathetic, with whom a real exchange takes place. installed. He is a character, always on the lookout! »
116, boulevard Haussmann, Paris 8e. Phone: 01 45 22 16 97