Table Penja, already one of the best restaurants of the year in Paris

Still discreet in the big mute of the Military School district, this one should get people talking. This one, we definitely won't stick that damn bistronomy, suitcase formula today without wrist from having spent so much time in the room of lost words. This one, we will simply admit as… a kitchen!

A kitchen with this straight exclamation point when it offers to confess an encounter, a crush, a trip, a revelation. A kitchen and therefore a chef: Pierre Siewe, a quiet force whose journey crosses Cameroon as well as Camdeborde. From this nurturing country, from this mentor in the profession, he is installing, this fall, the unprecedented of a first author's cuisine from between France and Africa.

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