Tonight was the Fooding awards, inside the Piscine Molitor, an abandoned Déco swimming pool at Auteuil. Le Fooding have a knack for discovering hidden gems. Each corner of the concrete and graffiti bunker harboured a gastronomic surprise: oysters, chips, ice cream, pumpkin soup, Bellota Bellota ham, Haagen Dazs ice cream, vegetable inspiration from Alain Passard, [...]

Just after the release of the 2010 edition of their national restaurant guide, it’s time again for this annual week-long celebration of gluttony, which marries fine ingredients, excellent alcohols, surprising venues, Paris’ best chefs and a hungry public, all brought to you by that uncouth bunch of gastronomic hipsters Le Fooding. This year their theme [...]

Paris’s 21st-century riposte to the Michelin guide, Le Fooding was (I’ll let them tell the story): “born in 2000. In Paris. On the seventh floor of Radio Nova, in the rush to meet an article deadline. ‘Food’ + ‘ing’ to make food rhyme with feeling… A barbaric gerund in English. An outrage in French. A [...]