Le Fooding reveals awards for 2013
The guide’s favourite eateries are mostly in Paris - including a takeaway van - but ones around France are recognised
FOOD guide Le Fooding has revealed its top dining experiences in France
At the top of the list of the best from the 2013 guide, “best table” is the Roseval in Paris' XX arrondissement, which has been fully booked since opening its doors in July.
Le Fooding was established in 2000 by two food critics, Alexandre Cammas and Emmanuel Rubin, as an alternative guide to such institutions as the Michelin Guide Rouge.
All reviews come with a scan of the bill to prove that the restaurant was visited and diners paid their way – just one way to break with traditional restaurant reviews.
The guide believes that reviewers are too conservative in their choices of eating establishments and it has decided to include sandwich shops and other takeaway areas.
The "Fooding d'amour" award (for the critics coup de coeur - a restaurant they “fell in love with”) was again awarded to the Japanese-run Abri in the IX arrondissement – a bistrot specialising in “gastronomic sandwiches”.
However not all of the awards went to the capital. Guillaume Monjuré of the Palegrié in Lyon won the award for best chef and the “meilleur festin cru was won by the restaurant Sushiqui in Marseille.
Special mention should be made of the “Fooding d'honneur" award, which goes to the Camion qui fume, a take-away truck operated by Californian Kristin Frederick, which Le Fooding says produces the best burgers of whichever arrondissement in which it happens to be situated.
