When school starts again, it's time for kids to get their pencil cases, textbooks, and new cartoons... And for you, it's time to discover the new restaurants in Paris. Want to try a cool new restaurant in the capital? Here are a few places you'd be wise to hurry up and make a reservation...
And on the banks of the Seine, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, be sure to try La Passerelle, a delicious restaurant that is well worth a visit.
Article in partnership with A Food Tale
In the recent past, Julien Duboué was eliminated from a televised cooking competition. This did not prevent him from delighting diners with Afaria and Dans Les Landes, both of which have since been sold.
In early September, he launched A Noste, which means "at home." In a decor featuring bare light bulbs dangling from long red wires, he is reviving the tapas menu that proved so successful at his previous restaurants (soft and melt-in-the-mouth fried baby squid with Espelette pepper, ravioli with foie gras, wasabi cream and passion fruit, BBQ chicken from the Landes region smoked with vine shoots, etc.).
He also offers a tasting menu that promises to be spectacular and Taloa (Basque galettes topped with whatever takes his fancy) sold from a truck!
Practical information:
6 bis, rue du Quatre Septembre
75002 Paris
For more information about A Noste (tel, budget, etc.)
And glug, glug... L'Esquisse is emptying La Baignoire (the previous establishment). Enter Thomas, previously seen at Agapé Substances (during the David Toutain era), who knows his stuff when it comes to wine.
And Laëtitia, who worked at the Ritz and Le Bistral, draws her inspiration from the bistro tradition: a beautiful and delicate pig's trotter terrine with vegetable pickles and gribiche sauce; impeccable mackerel marinated in rice vinegar with redcurrant and radish vinaigrette; superb rib steak for two, matured for three weeks, seared then cooked at low temperature, accompanied by smoked eggplant; appetizing pork cheeks in a tomato vinaigrette with wok-fried vegetables. 
The same goes for the desserts: Camembert aged with calvados, admirably paired by Thomas; apricot tartlet with tarragon... Delights to be discovered.
Practical information:
151 bis rue Marcadet
75018 Paris
For more information about Esquisse (tel, budget, etc.)
The whole of Paris's foodie scene was at the beck and call of the brilliant duo (Michael and Simone) who opened Roseval two years ago. But when one of them left to open a fish & chips shop on the banks of the Canal Saint-Martin, the most promising restaurant of recent years went through a "slightly more uncertain" period.
So it is Simone (the one who stayed) who has taken over the bistro on his own since September, concocting a unique menu that showcases each ingredient to perfection: sweet eel served in an emulsion on a broccoli velouté; crystalline langoustine, sprinkled with mini balls of fried breadcrumbs that crunch under the tooth and drizzled with a very fine thread of oil; melt-in-the-mouth, flavorful bonito accompanied by smoked eggplant and creamy, rich stracchino cheese; etc.
Also worth savoring: the chocolate cake with vanilla mascarpone and peach. And in your glass? The excellent natural wine selected by Martin (formerly of Noma in Copenhagen).
Practical information:
1, rue d'Eupatoria
75020 Paris
For more information about Roseval (tel, budget, etc.)
André Chiang's restaurant "Chez André" in Singapore can be considered the cream of the crop in Asia. And now he is opening Porte 12 in place of the former Café Panique, in the upper10th arrondissement, with Vincent Crépel at the piano (a former member of the team who previously worked at Rochat and Violier).
The menu gives carte blanche to the French chef, who distills the French excellence that has made Chiang's reputation on the other side of the world.
Three-course lunch menu, and much more in the evening: Duck hearts, onion broth, and salicornia, clean and precise; Chinchard, Ratte du Touquet, and smoked basil like a salty slap in the face; Veal, parsnips, and raspberries to roll around on the floor for; etc. All this while hydrating with very affordable wine (Patrimonio Domaine d'E Croce 2011 at €7.50 a glass) or much less.
Practical information:
12, rue des Messageries
75010 Paris
For more information about Porte 12 (tel, budget, etc.)
In a neighborhood declared gastronomically dead, a former KGB member of William Ledeuil and Romain Tischenko's Galopin serves up cuisine that is crazy in the best possible way: sea bream sashimi with cucumber and redcurrants; feta and strawberry tempura; a generous tuna/rates/cockles dish with a hint of iodine; and a perfect, superbly sourced pincanha.
Added to this is Nina's centerpiece, a " barbecue " table, where guests can choose from different cuts of Wagyu beef (in keeping with Galopin tradition, the meat comes from neighbor Carlos Gutierrez) and grill them to their liking over vegetable charcoal embers (no smoke, no smell).
Practical information:
139, rue du Château
75014 Paris
For more information about Nina (tel, budget, etc.)
