This is where we tell it like it tastes. From restaurants and food tours to local festivals, craft beer, and market finds—these reviews cover the full flavour spectrum of France. Every review is written by a working chef, not a PR writer or influencer on a freebie. That means honest opinions, sharp insights, and a healthy obsession with quality.
We review food wherever we find it. That might mean an €80 tasting menu or a €4 galette from a Breton food truck. The only rule? It has to be real, rooted, and worth talking about.
If I wouldn’t bring my wife, my kid, or my hungriest friend there—I’m not recommending it. Life’s too short for bad bread and warm beer.
I walked in to La Grand Épicerie de Paris ready to hate it. Not mild irritation or a polite shake of the head. Full chef-mode disdain. I wanted to rip it apart—aisle by overpriced aisle—exposing it as the bougie food theme park I was certain it had become. And honestly? It is.But it’s also kind … Read more
Think Paris is just for wine lovers? Think again. The city’s beer scene is an intriguing counter-culture movement, a rebellion against the dominance of wine, fueled by passionate brewers and a growing community of beer lovers. Paris may not be a global craft beer capital, but it offers something different—a unique mix of creativity, subversive … Read more
If you’re a hop-head heading to Paris in the spring, forget the wine clichés—Paris Beer Week and the Paris Beer Festival are where the city really lets its hair down. Running across multiple days and venues throughout the city, this annual celebration of all things bière is a love letter to France’s booming craft beer … Read more
It starts with a table. Not a white-linen, flute-of-champagne kind of table—but a large foldable plastic table covered with thick red linen and surrounded by six flake-focused humans, each about to eat their way through the buttery dreams of Paris’ best boulangers. And I, somehow, had a seat. The Setting: A Cathedral of Crumbs The … Read more
If you think bread is just a side dish in France, you haven’t been to the Paris Bread Festival. For 11 buttery, flour-flecked days in May, the air around Notre-Dame turns into a symphony of crust crackles and rising dough. This isn’t your average foodie event—it’s a full-blown homage to the boulangers who keep Paris … Read more
Looking for the most trusted Paris restaurant guide in 2025? With the internet drowning in AI-written listicles and tourist-driven hype, it’s never been more important to seek out human-curated lists created by people who actually live and eat here. As a chef living in Paris, I constantly get asked where I eat, who I trust, … Read more
Porto is one of those cities that pulls you back in. Maybe it’s the warmth—not just of the sun, but of the people. Maybe it’s the food, cheap and honest. Or maybe it’s the wine, which, on this trip, I realised just how little I knew about. Either way, this wasn’t our first trip, and … Read more
To say I was mildly hungover on Monday morning would be an understatement. The dreary drizzle over Bordeaux wasn’t helping, nor was my capsule hostel bed that seemed to be a cocoon designed to trap me in my misery. But after some internal wrestling, I managed to drag myself into the grey world, driven by … Read more
I’m no runner, but a marathon that winds through the world’s most famous vineyards, with stops every few kilometres to feast on the best wine and gourmet food France has to offer, might just tempt me to strap up my gammy knee, lay off the fags and get running. Welcome to your guide to the … Read more
This is not just a review of the Adnams brewery tour, their beers or their pubs but instead a little exploration into the tasty palace of memoires Adnams craft beer has built in my mind. Find out why I think Adnams make the best craft beer in the world and what being an avid fan … Read more