VAISSEAU d’Adrien Cachot — Restaurant in Paris

An enjoyable experience. The presentation was lovely, the dishes, glassware, and cutlery were beautiful. The bread was exceptional.

However I do feel like the amuse bouches were the highlight of the meal. They really sparked my curiosity and left me anticipating what was to come. The mains that came after (including the supplemental dish), whilst well executed, didn’t quite hit the same notes as the amuse bouches.

The techniques were great but the flavours were perhaps a little less daring - a little less “knock your socks off”. It’s a bit sad to plateau and even regress right off the bat. Finally, I found the signature cacio e pepe underwhelming: the flavours are simply typical of the dish and I don’t see what mochi adds.

I will say that the amount of mushroom in the dessert was expertly chosen. Just enough to communicate the season and the sous-bois, not so much that turned into mushroom pudding. Worth a visit for lunch.

Equally, be aware that the “accord mets boissons” is just that. Not just wine, but drinks. I expected only wine but that’s on me as I misread. On the other hand, what does bother me is when you pay (quite a bit) for an accord, but the amount of wine served is (much) smaller than what is served by the glass. I feel like this should be presented up front as it would have influenced my choices at the beginning of the meal.

In summary, it was a nice experience. I see the appeal. I would have been incredible if the explosive flavours from the amuse bouches could have...

It’s a new and much lauded restaurant by a very charming chef, Adrien Cachot. Yes, the ingredients can be unusual here and, sure, there’s enough fancy stuff going on, but we appreciated most of it and felt that the restaurant is actually devoted to food and not the show.

You won’t know the ingredients until you are done with each dish here so decide for yourself whether it’s a dealbreaker for you. To us it was great because we actually got the enjoy the taste and thought the approach excellent to allow for a more honest reaction.

There’s a good mixture of fish, meat and vegetables on the extended menu and offals are quite dominant on the meat side of things.

The wine list is excellent and you should be able to satisfy your urge for both classical and natural. I would rather not drink natural unless it’s supremely elegant as it may impede on the taste of the food. In fact, we always prefer an aperitif and water to go with a multi course meal.

Gai’s Seay is very good and very much worth...

Very good value for money. A lot of food (including 14 amuse-bouches) for 120e and 80e wine pairing with generous quantity (compared to other 1-star Michelin). And the chef spent a lot of effort to try pushing the creativity. Appreciate the ambition. However, as a regular visitor of fine dining comparing this gastronomic journey vs those in other 1-star 4.7 note restaurants, I feel a lack of story and the combination was sometimes confusing and/or didn't work. The service was quite good. However, there were still some issues to highlight: forgetting my mignardise (it was me to remind the waiter after verifying the list of courses) !!!, spilled wine then coldly and roughly cleaning without saying a word, roughly cleaning...