14-03-2016
A group photo with the kitchen team from Papillon (tel. +33.01.56798188), one of the most interesting and celebrated novelties in Paris in the early months of 2016. In the middle, patron-chef Christophe Saintagne: after a long and prestigious career next to Alain Ducasse (and shortly also with Jean-François Piège) he decided to work solo
A few weeks ago in Wagram, 17th arrondissement, a snob yet that snob neighbourhood, Papillon took wing. It was the most awaited gourmet birth in Paris’s culinary jet set. It’s easy to see why: the patron-chef of this luxury bistro, studied in detail even though it kept a frill-less preciousness and elegance (the design was handed to Pierre Tachon, a habitué collaborator at maison Ducasse) is the very Christophe Saintagne. Born in 1977 in Normandy, previously working with Alain Ducasse (in order: 59 Point Carré, Lyonnais, director at Plaza Athénée and at Meurice, then New York, London, Japan and Mauritius reaching the outposts of the global empire of the French chef), and Jean-François Piège too (in the Ambassadeurs of hotel Crillons), Saintagne has finally become just himself, Saintagne.
Papillon entrance
Hay smoked lamb with fregola
Honey Madeleines
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Born in Versilia, after a degree and a doctorate between Pisa and Madrid, she moved to Paris. In Sorbonne she does research in the field of literature, when out of the University she tastes and describes the places that excite her.