Le Clarence

Keith E. • 5 reviews

July 4, 2024

10/10

Absolutely amazing experience. Not to be missed.

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Tony R. • 10 reviews

June 29, 2024

9/10

The service and atmosphere.

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Cosmin V. • 3 reviews

June 7, 2024

10/10

Services were incredible 👌

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Robert T. • 1 review

May 15, 2024

10/10

The food and service was spectacular. I cannot imagine what a 3 star Michelin restaurant is like if Le Clarence is 2 stars.

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Moe Y. • 1 review

March 20, 2024

10/10

Very great. In particular, the dishes specially arranged by the chef are the best in the world. Various breads are also good. This restaurant is worth going to from Japan. All the staff were kind and their explanations in English were helpful.

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Alex R. • 6 reviews

February 14, 2024

2/10

They tried to give us a fake invoice +10000 euro

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Martha H. • 3 reviews

January 18, 2024

10/10

The restaurant is gorgeous—seems like walking into someone’s elegant home. Service is impeccable.

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Sijie X. • 5 reviews

November 30, 2023

10/10

My favorite restaurant in Paris! Recommend for everyone! Surprise in everywhere.

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Gary Z. • 1 review

October 28, 2023

10/10

Has a excellent time, staffs are nice with humor, polite. Good wine suggestions.

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Kimberley T. • 1 review

October 7, 2023

10/10

Best meal of our lives! Every detail perfect. The ambience, the service and most of all the food could not be improved upon. We will remember and cherish our experience forever.

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Allan G. • 1 review

September 14, 2023

7.5/10

We enjoyed our experience at Le Clarence. The service level was excellent and the number of courses exceeded our expectations as they deliver about 3 items per course. The two downsides for us were the long gaps between courses on a couple of occasions and the choice of pigeon for the "meat course". Pigeon is not a food we like much, but it was delivered three different ways, including a raw pigeon breast. This was not what we expected in a meat course with all the other wonderful options available.

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Andrew M. • 1 review

September 2, 2023

10/10

Excellent food, service, and atmosphere. The staff was extremely welcoming and the 5-course tasting was immaculate. I would dine here again in a heartbeat.

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Sarah k. • 4 reviews

July 29, 2023

10/10

We loved our experience at Le Clarence!! The staff was wonderful and so friendly and the food was incredible!! We splurged with the 7 course tasting menu with wine pairings and it did not disappoint. Very fresh and small enough bites that you didn’t feel like you were going to explode at the end of the evening. Everything we tasted was so unique and delicious. We can’t wait to come back!!

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Haixiao C. • 3 reviews

June 21, 2023

10/10

Five-course menu is great. Each course often has multiple satellite dishes. The lamb is the best we have ever had (the dish also comes in three parts).

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Marc W. • 8 reviews

June 3, 2023

10/10

Absolutely one of the best restaurants in the world. They made a vegetarian menu for us on short notice too!

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Philip Y. • 13 reviews

May 31, 2023

9.5/10

Everything food wise was very good, using our experience at other Michelin 2 and 3 stars restaurants as benchmark. Love the appetizers especially the sea snail. The pigeon was perfectly cooked. The flavors of all the dishes were quite balanced. The staff was not stuffy as in some other Michelin 2-3 star establishments. However there are a few misses that the restaurant could work on: our water was switched from sparkling to flat half way through the meal and it took 4 or 5 reminders for our server to place the utensils on the correct side for my left handed wife.

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Terry D. • 2 reviews

April 19, 2023

6/10

Le Clarence was billed as the 27th best restaurant in the world. I just returned from the dinner this evening and have to say that it was mediocre at best. Food: The meal as an experience is challenging to anticipate as a diner. We opted for the meager 3-course dinner, but received an abundance of extra dishes. While some may view these as pleasant "surprises", the dishes were in no way connected to each other and made it challenging to understand the progression of the meal. Were we in the amuse bouche, or the starter, or the meat? As far as the food, its sparse delicious highs were balanced by lackluster lows. The amuse bouches were boring. And while the fish/prawn-related dishes increased in technique and flavor (which was welcome), there were still several mis-steps (e.g. puffed mochi that was a textural nightmare). The meat featured an array of three quail-related dishes, linked only by the fact that they were all quail (each of which was "good"), but ultimately followed by a toast containing a cheese of some sort and mortadella, a disappointing follow-up to the quail that we thought was supposed to be the pinnacle of our meal. Our dessert consisted of four separate dishes (all lackluster), followed by a chocolate dessert (chocolate crust and ginger on the bottom, buckwheat on top) that was an unpleasant mish-mash of textures and pockets of fighting flavors (we didn't eat more than a bite). Service: The service was bizarre. Perhaps it was the translation from French to English, but their sense of humor was awkward (e.g. they asked my wife to eat the remaining bread bite multiple times despite her refusal). Additionally, they frequently would drop dishes without instructing us on how to eat them (e.g. combine them), or strand us with a bread and wine but no entree. In other instances, while we were eating one course (e.g. quail and peas), they interrupted us by dropping the next course (quail and risotto) and the third course (fried quail) before we even had a chance to appreciate the first. The same with dessert (two drops of two dishes each, followed by the chocolate course while we hadn't even finished with the first four). And at the end of the meal, they left us stranded in the corner for a full hour (2240-2340) without checking on us once (we wanted the check so we could leave!). And at the end of the meal, our server did not come and ask us how it was - they stopped asking us about the food at the meat entree. Ambience: it's stuffy. Don't be fooled by "business casual" - all the men are wearing coats, and the women are wearing dresses. Interestingly, they did not offer my wife a black napkin despite her black dress, and despite the white table cloth, they did make us re-use silverware between courses, allowing them to touch/soil the tablecloth. Communication: This is really the hardest part we had with the meal. Due to a miscommunication, I was served the "Terroir" wine pairing instead of their top-end 500E pairing. When I was served a glass of Anjou to start, I figured maybe they were just slow to build. However, I should have recognized that the Rhone white, grand cru Riesling, '18 "Burgundy", and '09 Pinot Gris were definitely not top-end material - but by the third wine I realized it was too late to draw attention to it. While this was my fault at using the wrong wording (I specifically ordered the "premier" tasting instead of whatever they were calling their top tasting; I definitely did NOT say "terroir"), I did ask if any of the wines were coming from the proprietor's estate (hoping to see some aged Bordeaux), to which the server smirked and said no - now I know why: he was laughing at the audacity to suggest such a wine would be in the lowly terroir tasting. As I write this, I feel his contempt for us as his patrons. In the end, the food was forgettable (which is why I wrote this review tonight), the service was "average" for a restaurant of this caliber (with some clear issues as stated above), and the ambience was disproportionately stuffy for the caliber of food and service. If a member of their staff were to reach out to me, I'd be happy to discuss further.

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KANGYOUNG L. • 1 review

March 18, 2023

10/10

perfect. food, service, wine so nice restaurant in france. keep going to get 3 star.....

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howard g. • 2 reviews

March 4, 2023

5.5/10

The food was disappointing. There was not even one memorable dish. The fish dishes were too fishy and the lamb dish too gamey. The breads, however, were above average. I was seated in the ante room to the main dining room. The general atmosphere is quite austere. Service is brisk and proper but not especially friendly. A restaurant at this price level and with such high ratings should have many notable dishes. This restaurant had none.

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Angela B. • 1 review

February 16, 2023

10/10

I can not think of a better experience in food, ambience, service! A true gem in Paris! Like a new breath to a traditional cuisine! Excellent! Thank you and I can not wait to visit you again!

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