While elsewhere in Paris, festive restaurants blare their cool with loud blasts of kitsch playlists and dishes that are especially good to be photographed, Alice Arnoux has opened a gem of a bistro at the antipodes of this rowdy trend.
Trained at Alexandre Couillon's Navy and at Noma, the chef who had once delighted at Le Perchoir and very briefly at Mermoz, wanted a place that was “really simple, where my friends could come and have lunch all the time without being embarrassed to ask them “bill on the table,” she says on her Instagram. A completely successful bet for this Café de l'Usine which she took over in the fall.
A good workshop
A former hidden workshop on Passage Piver in Belleville, behind the impressive gate of the former Spring Court tennis shoe factory. Two levels under overhead light, a wood stove to unlock the “warm” bonus and the chef's delicate cuisine offered around a menu anchored in the season and reasonably priced.
A break of sweetness that feels good, like when you come home after a winter walk along the North Sea.
