L'Air du Temps

Carine and Sang-Hoon have taken a demure house on a main road and created one of our country’s hidden treasures of haute cuisine. Some find the style of furniture, the colours and the lighting arrangements somewhat surprising. We liked their daring. Starting out as a wine waiter, Sang-Hoon Degeimbre took his innate love of wine with him when he passed into the kitchen a few years ago. Skilfully combining dishes and wines, herbs and spices, moving from discovery to creation, he offers diners a wealth of surprises. He is incessantly thinking, creating, inventing. From his kitchen that opens onto the restaurant - and especially onto the world - his light dishes fill us with wonder, veritable explosions of flavours cleverly arranged into sensitive and refined symmetrical designs. Then of course there are the wines. Like any self-respecting chef today, he visits all the wine-producing continents to offer his guests superb bottles from all corners of the globe. L’Air du Temps is a precious and sumptuous address. A diamond.