Jules Verne restaurant, the much-famed restaurant in Eiffel Tower, opened on Saturday, after a four month closure for renovation work. The restaurant serve French food, headed by French top chef Alan Ducasse, and is situated on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower, some 125 metres above ground level. Ducasse and Sodexho, the French catering-services giant, took over management of the Jules Verne and the tower’s other restaurants earlier this year.
The ambiance of the restaurant, along with the menu have been designed to offer locals and tourists a truly French experience. Ducasse, who heads a range of restaurants around the world, has garnered a record 14 Michelin stars, created an underground ‘cooking laboratory’ in this restaurant to prepare some of the dishes and keep a large wine cellar because the tower kitchen was only 45 square metres. This they felt was too small to serve 120 guests. Besides this, the furniture in the restaurant had to be weighed to meet the tower’s weight limits. Fearing fire risks, the kitchen does not even use flame-producing gas.
The new menus proposed are: 75€ for lunch and from 155€ to 190€ for diner. Reservations for the restaurant opened in mid October. On the eve of the opening, Ducasse and his staff bustled about the restaurant nestled amid Gustav Eiffel’s iron girders, with Paris breathtakingly laid out below.
This iconic restaurant is bound to tickle your taste buds and appeal to your senses...as you feed on the view out there while you dig into some truly French cuisine.
Via Yahoo! News
