Course I — Ouverture
Oyster, in Shadow
Gillardeau oyster lacquered in a veil of fermented elderflower, finished with a whisper of buttermilk snow and Périgord black truffle shaved over candlelight.
Pairing · Chablis 1er Cru, 2016
No. I — The Pour
A single vintage, decanted in darkness.
Est. MCMXC8 · Paris
Maison Doré
Two Michelin Stars ✦✦
An eighteen-movement tasting menu composed in shadow — where each course emerges from the dark like a painting lit by a single candle.
The Atelier — Chef Aurélien Vasseur
We do not cook with fire.
We cook with patience.
Every service begins before dawn at the markets of Rungis, where the chef selects by hand the roots, game and shellfish that will define the evening. Nothing is plated that has not first been understood — its season, its soil, its silence. The kitchen at Maison Doré works under low light, as the old masters painted: letting the eye find form in shadow.
What arrives at your table is not a dish but a movement — a single, deliberate gesture in an evening composed like music.
“Restraint is the rarest of all luxuries.”
— A. Vasseur, Chef de Cuisine
The Carte Blanche
The Tasting
Journey
Five of eighteen movements, revealed one candle at a time.
Course II — Terre
Celeriac, Cooked in Ash
A single root buried for nine hours in embers, carved tableside and bathed in a sauce of aged comté, brown butter and toasted hazelnut.
Pairing · Jura Savagnin, 2014
Course III — Mer
Langoustine, Gilded
Brittany langoustine barely warmed in shellfish butter, draped in a saffron emulsion the colour of late afternoon, crowned with sea herbs.
Pairing · Meursault, 2018
Course IV — Gibier
Pheasant & Quince
Wild pheasant roasted on the crown, its jus reduced with quince and bay, set against a purée of smoked chestnut and a single fermented plum.
Pairing · Gevrey-Chambertin, 2015
Course V — Final
Honey, Burnt & Cold
An iced parfait of acacia honey scorched to amber, dusted with toasted oat and finished with a thread of bitter caramel — the last candle, extinguished.
Pairing · Sauternes, 2009
The Epilogue
Reserve Your
Place at the Table
Seatings for two to six guests. The menu is served at a single fixed time each evening.
Address
12 Rue des Ombres
75001 Paris, France
Hours
Wednesday — Sunday
One seating, 19:30
Enquiries
+33 1 42 00 18 98
concierge@maisondore.fr
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