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Fooding Awards 2012

kvdb — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:00:48 +0000

Last night at a typically over-the-top champagne and sausage fueled party, in the garden of Les Frigos, Le Fooding launched the 2012 edition of their fab national food guide – with English tips! – (9.90€, buy it online here), and presented their annual restaurant awards. The winners this year for Paris are:
Best Table: Chatomat, 6 rue Victor Letalle, 20th.
Best Wine Bar: Frenchie bar à vins, 6 rue du Nil, 2nd.
‘Love’ Fooding Award: Au Passage, 1 bis passage Saint-Sébastien, 11th.
Honorary Fooding Award: Bertrand Grébaut, Septime, 80 rue de Charonne, 11th.
“Dig In!” Award: L’Agapé Substance, 66 rue Mazarine, 6th.
Best Cookbook Award: “En cuisine avec Alain Passard”, with illustrations by Christophe Blain (Gallimard)
Best Interior Award: Pier Schneider & François Wunschel (1024 Architecture) for Les Grandes tables de l’île Seguin, Jardin de l’île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt.
Best Bistrot Award: Le Pantruche, 3 rue Victor Massé, 9th.
Another year’s worth of gastronomic adventure awaits you!
www.lefooding.com/

La Cambuse Effervescente by Le Fooding

kvdb — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:43:56 +0000

Our favourite food crew are getting ready for a busy month. As well as their annual awards ceremony (14 Nov), and the publication of the 2012 edition of their restaurant guide to France (17 Nov), Le Fooding will be celebrating Paris’s new generation of talented chefs with a floating dinner aboard 2 boats the Victoria and the Acte III sailing down the Seine. Each chef – David Toutain (L’Agapé Substance); Daniel Rose (Spring); Giovanni Passerini (Rino); Bertrand Grébaut (Septime); Sven Chartier (Saturne); Nicolas Darnauguilhem (Neptune, Brussels); David-Vincent Loyola & Mathieu Perez (Aux Deux Amis); Franck Baranger (Le Pantruche); Keda Black; and Pierre Jancou (Vivant) – will take as inspiration for his dish a Paris monument! Dessert will be prepared by Hugues Pouget, the pastry maker at Hugo et Victor, and Rue Martel whiz Ludivine Billaud (Le Look) is decorating the tables. Sign up for your chosen chef/ menu (30€) online the week of the 14 Nov; as usual, all profits are donated to charity.
Fri 18, Sat 19 Nov.
www.lefooding.com/

La Bazarette Fooding

kvdb — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:52:47 +0000

Our favourite gastonomic crew Le Fooding return this summer with their pop-up travelling charity food market La Bazarette. The Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson will curate the event this year, and he’s also developed a cocktail for the occasion, the Mauresquimau. He’ll be bringing a selection of France’s better small producers - butchers, bakers, farmers - to three of the country’s summer festivals throughout July. You’ll find La Bazarette at Days Off in Paris, at the Cité de la Musique, on Fri 1 Jul, then in Arles for the photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles on Fri 8 Jul, before finishing up at Biarritz for the Big Festival on Sat 23 July. Reserve your tickets 15€ for the Paris event via Le Fooding’s website (tickets on sale from next Wed). All profits go to the Enfants du Congo Béthanie orphanage.
www.lefooding.com/

Veillées Foodstock

kvdb — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:53:20 +0000

Our friends Le Fooding are back with Les Veillées Foodstock, another round of acoustic gigs accompanied by fine food and cocktails for 500 lucky punters. This season it’s all happening in the gardens of suburban art centre the MAC/VAL (currently showing Idéo by Eric Duckyaerts). The musical program features: Sat 23 April Fredrika Stahl, Zach Miskin & Alister; Sat 7 May Brigitte, Black Minou & Benjamin Biolay; Sat 21 May Nach (Anna Chedid) & Camelia Jordana, and Gregory Marchand from top Paris restaurant Frenchie has invented the official cocktail ‘James on the Carrots’, a citrussy mix of carrot, orange peel, lemon and whisky. Tickets go on sale (50% of the proceeds are donated to the orphanage Enfants du Congo Béthanie) the Wednesday preceding the concert, on Le Fooding’s website.
www.lefooding.com/

© Jacques Floret

Le Fooding guide 2011

kvdb — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:26:53 +0000

A special 10-year edition of the only French restaurant guide that matters, including brief English texts, is on sale now (9,50€) on newstands and via Le Fooding’s website. You can also download from the App Store and until the end of the year their 2010 iPhone app for free!
www.lefooding.com/

Le Fooding’s 10th birthday celebrations

kvdb — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:14:00 +0000

So, ten years already that Le Fooding’s been giving a new, contemporary flavour to the Paris eating scene, supporting those places that have a commitment to food, of course, but that also have ze ‘feeling’. For this special birthday celebration Le Fooding are setting up a pop-up restaurant in Montmartre, open round the clock for 72 hours from Fri 1-Sun 3 October. A homage to a famous 18th-century Parisian restaurant La Marmite Perpétuelle, ‘Les Ébullitions perpétuelles’ invites 18 of the city’s best chefs representative of the Fooding attitude (Inaki Aizpitarte, Yves Camdeborde, Pascal Barbot, Eiichi Edakuni…) to play tag around the couldron for 3 days straight in fabulous dining rooms designed by the graphic designer and foodie Ludivine Billaud and the collective Change is Good. Sign up on the website from 30 Sep.
Galerie W, 44 rue Lepic, 18th. 30€ for a set menu including wine (Côtes du Rhone). www.lefooding.com/

La Bazarette Fooding and Days Off

kvdb — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:04:18 +0000

This summer, Le Fooding is taking a producer market around France to feed the hordes at a couple of the summer’s best music festivals. First stop, Paris, tomorrow!, for the new festival Days Off. There’ll be an acoustic gig from excellent local act Lilly Wood and the Prick, plus graphic design duo Change is Good on the decks, and a delicious summer menu featuring tomatoes, tapenade, root salad, 2 year old Salers cheese, apricots and Joyeuse macaroons. Mixologist Olivier Bon of the Experimental Cocktail Club will also present his version of the ‘Tomate’ (Ricard + berries + green tomato + lemon).
7-11pm, 15€ entry fee (profits donated to Action Contre la Faim). Salle Pleyel, 252 rue du Fbg-St-Honoré, 8th.
www.lefooding.com/

Le Fooding à la Ville

kvdb — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:52:16 +0000

For their tenth birthday, le Fooding are celebrating with a series of culinary events throughout France: you missed ‘à la neige’ last Sunday at Val d’Isère, but from this weekend begin ‘à la ville’, 3 consecutive Sundays of outdoor BBQ frolics with top Paris chefs, in the leafy, secret garden of the Hôtel Particulier in the 18th. This Sunday 2 May features Eric Frechon from the Bristol and Federica and Fabrizio from Caffè dei Cioppi; Sun 9 May it’s Giovanni Passerini from the restaurant Rino and Grégory Marchand from Frenchie , and Sun 16 May it’s Alberto Herraiz from Le Fogon and Cedric Casanova from La Tête des Olives. Plus there’s champagne and ice cream, and Maxence Cyrin on the piano.
6-10pm. 15€. Book your seat via the website.
L’Hôtel Particulier, 23 ave Junot, 18th.
www.lefooding.com

©Asako Masunouchi.

Veillée Foodstock® whisky party

kvdb — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:08:28 +0000

An outdoor whisky party from Le Fooding with Jameson, at the bucolic Chalet des Iles in the Bois de Boulogne this Wed 24 March! Gather around the camp fire and enjoy Irish tapas from new Irish chef Donal Skehan (Irish Chowder with smoked salmon, Black pudding salad with Irish blue sauce, Coffee meringue, vanilla cream à la Jameson…) while listening to an acoustic gig from Hugh Coltman, Pacovolume and Mina Tindle and throwing back the ‘Jameson driiiiiiiink!’, a refreshing concoction of whisky, mint and ginger!
From 7pm. 10 euros entry fee (entirely donated to Action contre la Faim). To be one of the lucky 500 to get in, sign in on the Fooding’s site from tomorrow, Tuesday.
www.lefooding.com/

Fooding Awards 2009

kvdb — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:01:21 +0000

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, cognac cocktails… Oh la la… A happy crowd.
Anyway, this year’s prizes were awarded to:

PARIS
Fooding® 2009 de la Meilleure Cuisinière (best female chef)
Adeline Grattard, YAM’TCHA, Paris

Fooding® 2009 du Meilleur Cuisinier (best male chef)
Grégory Marchand, FRENCHIE, Paris

FOODING® 2009 du Meilleur Décor (best interior design)
DERRIÈRE, Paris

Fooding® d’Honneur 2009 (Honorary Fooding)
WILLIAM LEDEUIL, Paris

Fooding® d’Amour 2009 (Love Fooding)
CAFFÈ DEI CIOPPI, Paris

PROVINCES
Fooding® 2009 du Meilleur Petit Luxe (Best little luxury)
PHAM, Toulouse

Fooding® 2009 du Meilleur Bistrot à Vin (Best Wine Bar)
VIGNE EN FOULE, Gaillac

Fooding® 2009 de la Meilleure Cave à Manger (Best Cellar Door)
LE GIBOLIN, Arles

Fooding® 2009 du meilleur Objet Vaillant Non Identifié (Best Unidentified Valiant Object)
LE 7ÈME CONTINENT, Rixheim

Fooding® 2009 du Meilleur Bistrot (Best Bistro)
BISTROT D’EDOUARD, Marseille