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Near the Arc de Triomphe, off the Place de l'Etoile
is another superb restaurant, Sormani. Owned and run by
Jean-Pascal Fayet since January 1985, it has always been considered
as one of the best Italian restaurants in Paris. Jean-Pascal Fayet is one
of these chefs who keep renewing the Italian cuisine. He is a truffle
lover, and you will not be surprised to find these mushrooms in many
specialties. You may go for them as they are exquisite. Everything here is
original and a subtle mixture of tradition and new tastes, where the
authenticity of the ingredients is always respected. As starters, you
might be tempted by a salad of lentils with clams and squids in a basil
cream, or the soup of white beans with bacon and scampi, or a simple
carpaccio of tuna. Then you will want a fish, the catch of the day,
or sea robin fillets, with mashed potatoes in olive oil with basil. Or
you will prefer pastas, ravioli with duck foie gras and mushrooms,
ravioli with lobster and tarragon, tagliatelle with bacon, white beans and
black truffles, or with mashed onions and veal sweetbreads, ravioli with
goat cheese and black truffle, cannelloni with cod and leeks. For meat
you will chose between a hot beef carpaccio with black truffle, a
grilled veal kidney with mashed potatoes and olive oil, a grilled veal
liver with mashed onions and spinach, or a subtle piece of veal stuffed
with black truffle. Since you are not on a diet, you will want a
dessert, a splendid tiramisu, a hot chocolate pyramid with caramel
sauce, or an assortment of sherbets and ice creams. The wine list will
fulfill all your expectations, with wines from many Italian regions.
White: Pinot Grigio della Staffa (Friuli), Conte della Vipera (Umbria),
Nozze d'Oro (Sicily), or red : Venetia (94 Amarone Luigi Righetti),
Piedmont (94 Barolo Pio Cesare, 95 Barolo Marcarini La Serra, 98 Dolcetto
d'Alba L. Sandrone), Tuscany (97 Santa Cristina, 97 Peppoli Chianti
Classico, 96 Sassicaia, 94 Sangioveto, 96 Cabreo, 96 Pomino Rosso).
For two, you will pay about $160, and for lunchtime, there is also a 3
course menu at $35 per person, without wine.Jean-Pascal owns also 2
smaller Italian restaurants worth trying, Le Vinci and La Cafetière.
In the heart of the Saint-Germain des Prés quarter, in one of the very
typical streets of Paris, the Pizza Santa Lucia offers pizzas among
the best ones in Paris. If you have cocktails before your meal, and if it
is not too crowded (as it is not on the menu), ask for a pizza
pane, a plain pizza with nothing on it. You will find it much better
than any crackers. At the entrance, a large antipasti buffet raises your
appetite. Then you can see in the back a true wood fire heated oven in
which the pizzas are cooked, and which gives them this special and
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You can have all kinds of pizzas, 4 cheese,
Neptune (tuna and tomato), Cantona (sea food), Mimmo (tomato, mozzarella,
eggplant), Mollicone (sausage, ham, egg, tomato, cheese), Napoletana
(tomato, cheese, anchovies, capers). For pastas, the choice between
the typical Italian specialties is also very wide, spaghetti with
tomato and basil, with clams, parpadelle with prosciutto, with salmon,
penne all'arrabbiata or with mushrooms and ham, tortiglioni with tomato,
eggplant and mozzarella. You may also ask for fish (grilled or
fried squids, fried scampi, mussels) or meat (beef fillet with
Gorganzola or pepper, scaloppini, bocconcini). To drink, you will
chose within a short but well selected Italian wine list : Chianti
classico Villa Antinori, Lambrusco Amabile, Barbera, Cabreao or Yago
Valpolicella. For two, you will spend about $70.
In the rue du Bac, just across from the Bon Marché department store,
you will find Le Petit Tiberio. It is a small authentic Italian
restaurant, like any trattoria you would see in a small town in the South
of Italy. Apart from the specials of the day, the menu list may seem
short, but you can find in it everything you want: as starters, a choice
between a tomato and mozzarella salad, prosciutto di Parma, mozzarella
alla Tiberio (tomato, mozzarella, anchovies, olives, peppers), carpaccio,
eggplants and tomatos parmigiana. Then the home made pastas confirm
that you are really in Italy: tagliatelle Bolognese or Carbonara, penne
alla Tiberio (with tuna, olives and grapes), fettuccine with tomato and
basil, ravioli with spinach and ricotta, spaghetti alla putanesca (tomato
sauce with olives, capers, anchovies and peppers). For meat, you will
chose between a fegato alla Veneziana (veal liver), piccatina al limone
(veal steack with lemon), or with Marsala sauce, tomato and capers sauce,
mozzarella or mushrooms.For two, the cost will be about $50.
Not very far away from the Place de la Bastille and its Opera, there is
a superb restaurant and pizzeria in the rue de la Roquette, which leads to
the Pere Lachaise cemetery. It is called Il Farnese, run by
Giorgio and Marilena Tano. It is a very friendly
atmosphere where you will feel at home, in Italy.
You will eat there a true Naples pizza, with a thin crust in the
middle, and a thicker and crispy one on the sides. There are all kinds of
pizzas, with anything you want on them. Besides pizzas, you will of course
have also a wide choice of pastas, prepared in a frank and authentic way:
penne, spaghetti, tagliatelle, ravioli, lasagne, with all the
Italian fillings and sauces you may dream of.
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For meat, you can try the superb saltimbocca alla Romana, or
any of the scaloppini (alla Milanese, with ham and cheese, or with lemon
and cream). Don't forget to ask for the specials of the day which are
always a good surprise. The Italian wine list will help you to have good
classical Italian wines to drink with your food (Chianti, Valpolicella,
Barolo, Barbera). When
going there, if you run into a man looking like Rocco Siffredi, don't be
surprised, as chances are it is the genuine Rocco, who happens to be a
close relative of the owners. For two, it will cost about $50.
Beato
8 rue Malar - 75007 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 47 05 94 27 Fax: 33 (0)1 45 55 64 41
Métro: Invalides
Il Delfino
74 quai des Orfèvres / 29 place Dauphine 75001
Paris - Tel: 33 (0)1 43 54 16 71
Métro: Pont-Neuf / Cité
Il Cortile
37 rue Cambon - 75001 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 44 58 45 67 Fax: 33 (0)1 40 15 97 64
Métro: Concorde
Sormani
4 rue du Général Lanrezac - 75017 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 43 80 13 91 Fax: 33 (0)1 40 55 07 37
Métro: Charles de Gaulle Etoile
Le Petit Tiberio
132 rue du Bac 75007 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 45 48 76 25 Métro: Sèvres-Babylone
Santa Lucia
22 rue des Cannettes - 75006 paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 43 26 42 68
Métro : Mabillon / Saint Germain des Prés
Il Farnese
45 rue de la Roquette - 750011 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 40 21 65 91 Fax: 33 (0)1 40 21 89 17
Métro : Bastille / Voltaire
Le Vinci
23 rue Paul Valéry - 75116 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 45 01 68 18 Fax: 33 (0)1 45 01 60 37
Métro : Victor Hugo
La Cafetière
21 rue Mazarine - 75006 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 46 33 76 90 Fax: 33 (0)1 43 25 76 90
Métro : Odéon |