Cool Paris

From Fodor’s travel blog :

Owner Pierre Jancou painstakingly restored the Art Nouveau tiles of a shop that once sold exotic birds to create Paris’s most beautiful new bistro a vins. Dishes typical of the chalkboard menu here include foie gras with artichoke salad, and grilled hen wit baby organic vegetables. Pierre Jancou is alive and well, back in Paris, militant passion intact, doing what he does best: Offering the very best products, prepared “sans chi chi,” (his words), and natural wines.

Vivant, 43, Rue des Petites Ecuries, 75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle, tel 01 42 46 43 55 , hours: closed Saturday and Sunday