Want beautiful Thai cuisine, without cheap exoticism or adventurous reinterpretations?
Want a table in an elegant setting, which escapes the fashionable street food canteens displaying Paris-Bangkok poke bowl or pad thai under the Chinese flag?
Just as we go to Sébastien Bras for his Gargouillou or to Guy Savoy for his artichoke soup, we find at the Norman hotel the dishes that have made Apiradee Thirakomen famous, since the opening of its first restaurant in 1984, the Thai Orchid
,
boulevard Saint-Germain.
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Thai chef Apiradee Thirakomen.
YANN DERET
Quick flashback: in 1997, the chef worked at Bains-Douches before opening her own establishments called Thiou, her nickname.
It is the Bertrand group which, today, has given it an address on rue Balzac, a few steps from Place de l'Etoile.
Passing through the revolving door, we head towards a large, bright room, tastefully decorated in the spirit of an esthete's apartment.
Light colors, nobility of materials, objects chosen in reference to Norman…
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