La Cuisine on the second floor is a fine dining area. Its menu consists of L’Atelier’s menu plus a few more dishes. Although we did not dine at La Cuisine, we asked the restaurant manager to take us to have a look. Disappointingly, it does not look very appealing. We found the concept of L’Atelier more innovative and intriguing. Needless to say, dining at L’Atelier is less expensive than La Cuisine. The bar at the top floor is only accessible by diners.

About Our Meal

We both had the 8-course tasting menu (Menu Découverte). Our amuse-bouche was foie gras terrine. Although it seems a bit strange to have foie gras as amuse-bouche, the top quality terrine plus a piece of warmly toasted bread definitely stimulated our palate.

Foie gras terrine	Velouté of avocado on a vegetables fondant

Our first course was avocado on a vegetable fondant served in a transparent cup accompanied by fresh tomato on the side. I love avocado, but this avocado blended with vegetable gives a rather strange taste. Nevertheless, the tomatoes were remarkably fresh and tasty, combined with the thick vegetable soup, it reminded us of V8 vegetable juice. We noticed that there was a big decorative jar containing these lovely tomatoes. It would be nice if we could have the whole jar…