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- The Tour d\u2019Argent, a Paris restaurant, is offering a front-row view of the renaissance of Notre Dame Cathedral and the 2024 Summer Olympics.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- The restaurant, a city landmark and inspiration for the movie “Ratatouille” has recently reopened after a renovation.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- The restaurant offers fixed-price menus, with lunch starting at $167 and dinner at $400, excluding the wine cellar’s offerings.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Tour d\u2019Argent already boasts a 320,000-bottle wine cellar, a world-famous duck recipe and a storied 441-year history. Now, the legendary Paris restaurant is about to serve up its “plat de r\u00e9sistance”: a front-row view of two of the biggest events of 2024 \u2014 the renaissance of Notre Dame Cathedral and the 2024 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n
A city landmark unto itself \u2014 and an inspiration for the restaurant in the movie “Ratatouille\u2019\u2019 \u2014 the Tour d\u2019Argent recently reopened after its own renovation, which preserved revered traditions while adapting to the 21st century.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019It\u2019s very reassuring for many customers to see that such establishments are still present in our history, and in French gastronomic history,\u2019\u2019 owner and CEO Andr\u00e9 Terrail told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
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The restaurant claims to be the oldest in Paris, its 1582 opening date embossed on the doors. It says King Henri IV ate heron p\u00e2t\u00e9 here; \u2018\u2019Sun King\u2019\u2019 Louis XIV hosted a meal here involving an entire cow; and presidents, artists like Salvador Dal\u00ed, and celebrities including Marilyn Monroe have graced its tables in the generations since.<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n\n\nCooks are seen preparing food at La Tour d’Argent restaurant in Paris, on Dec. 13, 2023. The restaurant will have a front-row view of the renaissance of Notre Dame Cathedral and the 2024 Summer Olympics.<\/span> (AP Photo\/Christophe Ena)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Today the Michelin-starred restaurant remains one of the most exclusive places to dine in the French capital, out of reach for most. The simplest fixed-price lunch menu runs to $167, and the most affordable fixed-price dinner is $400 \u2013 and that\u2019s without even peeking at the 17-pound book dubbed the \u2018\u2019bible\u2019\u2019 of its wine cellar.<\/p>\n
But the reborn Tour d\u2019Argent offers options for those who want to breathe in its rarefied atmosphere without investing in a full meal: A ground-floor lounge serving croissants in the morning, an adjacent bar serving fireside cocktails in the evening, and a rooftop bar open in the warmer months, where the restaurant\u2019s breathtaking views are on full display.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame Cathedral takes center stage in this Paris panorama, a construction site like no other. Artisans are mounting a new spire and roof on the monument, replacing those that collapsed in a 2019 fire that threatened to destroy the entire medieval cathedral.<\/p>\n
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Piece by piece, the scaffolding that enshrouds the site will come down over the course of 2024, in time for its planned Dec. 8 reopening to the public.<\/p>\n
For its neighbors at the Tour d\u2019Argent, the restoration of Notre Dame is welcome news.<\/p>\n
“Notre Dame is a landmark and probably had lost a little bit of attention to the Eiffel Tower,” Terrail said. After the fire, Notre Dame enjoyed an injection of funding, notably from the U.S. \u2019\u2019Lots of love coming from abroad, making sure that the cathedral was renovated,” he said.<\/p>\n
Terrail had been mulling a makeover for the Tour d\u2019Argent too, and finally made it happen after an 18-month closure prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
“COVID in a sense accelerated things, and also the Olympic Games, which are kind of an accelerator for everything in Paris,” he says.<\/p>\n
“We have a front-row seat on the opening ceremony of the Olympics. It\u2019s a great privilege. It starts just there,” he says, pointing at the spot where the unprecedented opening-day extravaganza will unfold along the River Seine on July 26.<\/p>\n
The restaurant reopened to generally positive reviews, after years in which it had been seen as resting on its laurels. Michelin says the cuisine and service were rejuvenated \u2018\u2019without taking away from its nature.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The Tour d\u2019Argent \u2013 which translates as \u2018\u2019Silver Tower\u2019\u2019 — has a redesigned dining room with an open kitchen, and a top-floor one-bedroom apartment that rents for nearly 9,000 euros a night.<\/p>\n
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Its signature dish remains pressed duck, cooked in its own blood and specially carved by servers in the air instead of on a board. Since 1890, the restaurant has been giving customers certificates with the number of each duck served. They\u2019re now well past the one-million mark.<\/p>\n
The bustling kitchen staff use locally grown products and closely held recipes, like a seductive “mystery egg” starter in truffle sauce.<\/p>\n
“You have to cook the egg white, but not the yolk,” explains executive chef Yannick Franques.<\/p>\n
“People, when they come to eat, are quite surprised when they don\u2019t know the mystery and often come to me asking how I manage to keep the yolk raw inside and the white part cooked. Unfortunately, I can\u2019t say, I just can\u2019t say,” he says, smiling.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019The secret\u2019s the secret. Voil\u00e0.”<\/p>\n
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- The restaurant, a city landmark and inspiration for the movie “Ratatouille” has recently reopened after a renovation.<\/strong><\/li>\n