SHIRO | Restaurant Franco Japonais Fusion

Overall I was a bit disappointed. From the pictures I was expecting a much better culinary experience in terms of flavor combinations, and also dish presentation.

The mise en bouche, was a bit bland and had nothing exciting about it to start the 6 course journey. And it wasn’t because I didn’t have the cheese foam in my dish, because I also tasted the ones with lactose from my girlfriend’s plates, in order to remain true to my review. The sea bass tartare was ok, flavor was interesting, but it had too much of the jelly at the bottom, and nothing very interesting going on with the presentation. Seems like all it takes is to place a slither of radish on top of a plate and it makes it “fine dining”…

Next we had the fois gras with strawberries and pear. I must admit I really enjoyed the pear slithers, which were made crunchy and packed with flavor which combined well with the fois gras. However it didn’t blow my mind.

After that came my favorite dish, the cod, for this one I have nothing to say. Presented very nicely, with textures and flavors that really made your palate happy. Following the fish in one of our menus we substituted the “black angus” with a piece of “wagyu” for an additional 28€. Now I understand that the additional price is for the delicious quality of the wagyu meat, however when you present that plate with only some steamed vegetables on top of a velouté, exactly like with the black angus dish, we have some problems. Besides the fact that the meat was placed on the plate with nothing on top or any type of decoration which to be honest made the meat look very sad. Of course the wagyu was delicious but that’s not really the chef’s merit.

Finally we closed with a desert which was relatively tasty and presented well, ordering also one cocktail from the bar, and we received two as a mistake. I excepted to not have the extra cocktail on my bill but apparently I had to pay for the waiter’s mistake.

Overall I don’t suggest this restaurant since we spent way too much money for what we got, since we left disappointed and still a bit hungry.