• The latest Top Chef winner last week launched a six-month collaboration with Ladurée for "royal nights."
  • Its unique five-step menu is peppered with references to The Great Gatsby, Alice in Wonderland and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.
  • A succession of dishes more intriguing and surprising than strictly speaking succulent, despite some first-choice pieces.

It is to "Royal Evenings" that Louise Bourrat, the latest winner of Top Chef, invites. And not just anywhere since we are at Ladurée, tea room best known for its macaroons, transformed for six months into an ephemeral restaurant for the time of an unprecedented collaboration with the young winner of the M6 show. "Louise brought her ideas but we really refined this menu together," Hadrien Lorotte de Banes, executive chef of Maison Ladurée, told 20 Minutes.


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"When I enter rue Royale, in Paris, love at first sight is immediate between the Marie-Antoinette style and me," says Louise Bourrat. The velvet and fringed lampshades invite relaxation and a certain trickery emerges from the leopard print benches... We expect the winner of Top Chef to bring to this gently classic address a little bit of madness, her punk attitude.

In this regard, it is quite successful with an evening menu inspired by The Great Gatsby, Alice in Wonderland and Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette to cite the chef's cultural references. Clearly, a succession of mounted pieces and neat plates, full of flowers.

Octopus and harissa hot dog with rose

To start strong, cocktails are adapted to each of the four small royal bites offered as appetizers (but we do not advise you to chain cocktails at this stage of the meal). Among these appetizers, our favorite: the octopus and harissa rose hot dog, served in a black bao bread. It is explosive and much more convincing than the nun with cake and creamy poppy that will follow. The pastry piece is certainly very pretty on the plate, but the taste of the cake fades under a cabbage paste too thick.

The royal highlight of the evening is rather the duck matured with spices, hibiscus, lavender, turnip, radish, lovage, on two plates to present the poultry on the one hand barely seared, on the other hand in confit. There are flowers everywhere. It's beautifully done, stylish and really delicious.



Honor to sweet tooths for the rest of the evening with coconut rice pudding, jasmine sorbet and yuzu. A minimalist dessert in its round shape and its meringue finery which, for once, are indeed reminiscent of Marie-Antoinette pecking at macaroons at Sofia Coppola. It is both very pretty and very good.

And then, we finish with a two-tiered tray of fairly classic sweets, a tartlet, a small cookie, an iced candy... Not enough to overturn the table, but it's a nice way to finish a meal that will cost you 85 euros, without the drinks. For a "royal night", it's almost a bargain.

For those who wonder if the selfie with Louise Bourrat is included in the price, it will be warned that the champion of Top Chef is not present every night, far from it, because she continues her activities in Portugal. But the executive chef of Ladurée has assured us that she will be back on May 17 to make, with the team, some adjustments taking into account the first feedback from customers.

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