Restaurant Gemellus — Restaurant in Paris

A culinary grenade in your mouth

In the heart of Paris, Gemellus makes you wonder if the French have outclassed the Brits. The dining room is a marvellous mash-up of old and new, with painted mouldings, coffered ceiling chandelier and velvet chairs. If you're super observant (or perhaps just spending too much time staring at the ceiling), you can spot a Ferrari. Yes, you read that right - a small Ferrari on the ceiling! I guess someone decided to play Monopoly.

Now, the food. Well - It's Michelin-grade - which meant that it was fancy enough to make you feel like you're dining with the Queen, but tasty enough that you would not need to stop for fish and chips on the way home. Each dish was a work of art that made you feel guilty for destroying (eating) it.

It's a place where the culinary excellence was mixed with some inspired design and one of my favourite dining experiences this year.

So, if you're in Paris and fancy a meal that's posher than Posh Spice and more fun than a barrel of tipsy monkeys, go to Gemellus. Just don't try to nick the Ferrari on your way out - it is too...

Special restaurant - chef picked lobster, chocolate, ridiculous lime butter for the bread, Veal, sauce and more sauce and broth and white wine, and beautiful Chambriard knives from Thieres, and some kind of savory ice cream with soup and Crunchy sourdough, a little more wine, and a sweet mushroom, and a piece of Pollock the king of the sea and miniature flower bites, and figs, loads of in season figs with biscuit, and raspberry sauce and a yellow flower in blown glass, and a bell bottomed butter knife and a Partridge in a pear...

Outside of my Michelin Stars Challenges (tried every Michelin Stars in paris, 3 stars, etc… follow me for more), I also try Michelin Guide restaurant.

So an extremely quick review. Nice Michelin guide restaurant. Not a star. But a Michelin guide with some local crowd. I’ll recommend the mushrooms dish and the chocolate dessert. It does deserve to be in the Michelin, but it’s not currently aiming at a star. To be fair, the young waitress that I had was Star level trained (if not,...