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Chef Kei Kobayashi earns his 3rd Michelin star

On Monday January 27, the famous Michelin guide unveiled its new list of winners, as it does every year. While some tables have lost a star, three others have entered the very closed circle of three-starred restaurants. Among them, chef Kei Kobayashi's Kei restaurant. – A Franco-Japanese journey After a first experience of French cuisine in Japan between 1993 and 1998, Kei flew to France in order to perfect his knowledge. There he explored the different terroirs to better understand the richness and diversity of expression of gastronomic cuisine… Once in Paris, he joined the cuisine of Alain Ducasse and learned about haute cuisine. Perfect mastery of cooking, millimeter finishes, high precision of gesture... He then discovered all the secrets of starred Parisian cuisine and cut his teeth with the great name of French gastronomy but also with chef Jean-François Piège and Christophe Moret. – The opening of his first restaurant On March 3, 2011, Kei Kobayashi realized his teenage dream and opened his eponymous restaurant at 5 rue …

Chez Hanafousa, between Japanese inspirations and a culinary show

A place of excellence, Paris is full of restaurants, each one more hyped than the next. Their culinary know-how and their select design attract all of Paris and in the World Cuisine category, Paris Select takes you to Hanafoussa, the most inspired Japanese restaurant in the capital. A stone's throw from Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the restaurant Chez Hanafousa is one of the oldest Japanese restaurants in Paris. A true pioneer, he is one of the best ambassadors of Japanese cuisine in the capital. Its great particularity? We taste Teppanyaki specialties, cooked under our astonished eyes – on a large hot plate – by real jugglers of meat and other seafood: lobster, fillet of beef or even pan-fried foie gras… This mythical table makes you live a real culinary journey! The show Pleasant culinary discovery, this show of another kind obeys a series of ancestral gestures that fascinate as much as they whet the appetite... Subsequently, an excellent tasting allows you to discover a rich and varied Japanese gastronomy, highlighting honor a farandole of iodized products...