Restaurant Anne - Place des Vosges, le Pavillon de la Reine — Restaurant in Paris

#46 see my MichelinStarsChallenge Paris list Star within a luxurious boutique hotel

The great thing here is that you’re in a very high end hôtel. The service is palace and high end hotel is always a notch higher than the average. I have an anecdote to demonstrate the dedication. We made a mistake when ordering. It was a small confusion, but it was on our end. At one point the dish arrives and my colleague realized it. They changed the dish. Without hesitation, without any discussion. Honestly, I would not have done it. But they did. The High end Michelin star restaurant have always a different atmosphere. It’s also always more cosmopolite. Their challenge (especially the one star, may be less the 2 and 3), is that they have to please every palates… An American palates is not like a Japanese, nor European, Asian, etc.. (I’ll explain one day). it’s a daunting task. The chef manages to ride this fine line and delivers a pleasing and refine cuisine. The crowd was definitely international and business. You can definitely have a casual lunch after a Marais visit outside, or a business meal or a romantic dinner in the library. Dress code/mood: smart international My experience: A great lunch where I was well taken care of and really isolated from the heavy crowd just a few meters away

Update 2022: Went back one year and less than month after. As you can see the menu completely changed, both for lunch and à la carte (the pictures, menu and videos are directly online because for some reasons can not be added to this review). The difference with another 5 stars hotel one star restaurant is that it’s a “boutique “ hotel, so the restaurant has 8 tables, so it’s 16 clients maximum. The service is the service of a 5 stars hotel. The restaurant does...

I enjoyed this restaurant very much - my third time at a property by M. Pacaud, who is a brilliant and truly gifted chef. But this time, I was a little disappointed by two dishes - the beef entree and the pigeon. It was fairly simple: the beef was not melt-in-your mouth tender (as the perfectly cooked pigeon was) and as for the pigeon dish that should be the pinnacle of the meal, I failed (perhaps in my culinary ignorance) to understand the connection between the arancini with mushrooms and satay sauce (not sure if I got that right because it didn’t really taste like satay), which was served in a separate bowl (why? So inconvenient and made the arancini seem like an afterthought) and was somewhat too hard, ie it didn’t break apart easily. The arancini spoiled the pigeon perfection, in my view. I would dine here again - the service and ambiance...

I can’t fault the food in this restaurant. Cooking is very competent and all of the food served were delicious. I think the service could be improved though. While the waiters were not rude, my partner and I found the service too formal and distant. I understand they have 1 Michelin star but we have been to similar restaurants where the service was way warmer. Additionally, they were very slow in serving the courses. We waited around 45 minutes for our main course which somehow killed our appetite. The interior of the restaurant also needs to be improved in terms of lighting. The courtyard was beautiful though (shame we had to go inside as it...