Restaurant Reviews: Taillevent in Paris

by Ian D’Agata

Taillevent

15 Rue Lamennais

75008 Paris

Tel. +33 1 44 95 15 01

The dishes

Royal prawn “carabinero”, warmed with brown butter, white beans, wild purslane, saffron sauce and caviar

Flambed Lobster with Whisky, squash and chestnuts, sunflower seeds, lobster’s head in the “Thermidore way”, Bigorra black ham

Pigeon roasted with black garlic, candied potatoes and sweet onions, with pigeon’s les “charcuterie way”

Founded by André Vrinat in 1946, Taillevent in Paris is, very simply put, one of the world’s truly great Restaurants. That’s right, Restaurant, with a capital “R”: for when it comes to dining destinations, there are the good, the bad and the ugly, the very good to outstanding that try really hard, and then the outstanding that don’t really have to, because everything about them flows freely while oozing easy-going charm, natural ability and savoir-faire.

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Ian D’Agata
Ian D’Agata

Ian D’Agata is an internationally famous, multi-award winning author who has been speaking and writing about wine for thirty years. His latest books (Native Wine Grapes of Italy, Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs, Italy’s Grapes and Wines: The definitive Compendium Region by Region and the most recent, Barolo Terroir) are considered the bibles of Italian wine and have received numerous prestigious awards such as the Louis Roederer International Wine Awards “Book of the Year” title, the Gourmand World Book Awards “Best European Wine Book” and being named to the “Best Wine Books of the Year” lists of newspapers and magazines such as the NY Times, the Financial Times and Food & Wine. For eight years, Ian has also been the co-author of the Italy section in Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Book of Wine, the world’s best- selling wine guide with 46 editions to date and over 12 Million copies sold all over the world; he has since been also put in charge of the Alsace and Malta sections.
He is the is currently the President of Ian D’Agata Wine Culture, one of China’s wine education platforms, that includes the Ian D’Agata Wine Review and the Ian D’Agata Wine Academy. Ian is a former staff writer at Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar, Contributing Editor of Decanter, and Senior Editor of Vinous. His writings have always focused on the wines of Italy, France, China and Canada, for which he has won numerous international awards and accolades, including the Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia “Best Youngest Wine Journalist of Italy” and the “Best Wine Journalist of Italy” awards, as well as Canada’s 2018 VQA award (Out of Ontario section) and 2017 Cuvée Award of Excellence.
Intensely devoted to the research and study of native wine grapes, Ian was officially named in 2015 to Italy’s prestigious Accademia della Vite e del Vino (Italy’s official association of wine academicians, researchers, and university professors) and is currently the Vice President of the Association Internationale des Terroirs.

Contacts: Instagram: @ian_dagata; Email: iandomenicodagata@outlook.it

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