'Chicken breast in coconut milk, fruit curry and lemongrass rice, 17€.'
Because it looked like a funked-up school canteen we’d never been particularly inspired to eat here before – but once you’re inside all thoughts of cold mashed potato disappear. The Palais de Tokyo’s restaurant rocks, especially on summer evenings when you can sit outside on the terrace. The inside space with its flying saucer lamps and weird and wonderful loos has the benefit of The Human Juke Box who proposes a parallel menu of eclectic hits; you can order David Bowie with your beef tataki and Coldplay with your croustillant de chocolat, and suddenly they’re playing your song! The menu is a round-the-world ticket with distinct flavours – the chicken curry is real curry and the beef teryaki brochettes were fabulous. They also serve ambrosial ice-creams with flavours such as caramel à la fleur de sel or honeyed gingerbread, and our Mont Ventoux red went down smoothly.