WHAT?
Pan-Asian food by an esteemed chef served in a super chic, white and wood streamlined space designed by Cigüe.
WHO?
Japanese chef Taku Sekine (of Dersou) and restaurateur extraordinaire Florent Ciccoli (of Jones and Café du Coin) teamed up after becoming friends as co-restaurateurs in Paris’s 11th arrondissement.
WHY?
Because Cheval d’Or combines more or less everything that Paris has done right in the last few years. A space worthy of a beautiful spread in Milk Déco (France’s coolest bobo design magazine), a Japanese chef who could impart a few culinary lessons to his French counterparts (and he’s not the only one: more and more excellent French spots are run by Japanese chefs), and cuisine that’s less interested in originality above all, and more interested in the pleasure that the talented Taku takes in preparing the dishes he likes most in this world.