Between its wonderful delicacies made utilizing produce grown on web site and a clutch of cozy farmhouse-chic rooms, Le Doyenné was already a favourite day-trip escapade for the Parisian vogue set.
Now there’s another reason to make the one-hour journey outdoors Paris: a 10-seat non-public eating room. It’s the newest collaboration of the institution with Undertaking 213A, the four-year-old design agency of Theresa Marx, Clement Deboeuf and Jurgita Dileviciute, who additionally cofounded footwear label Jude.
They had been already behind the artisanal items starting from ceramic aspect tables to customized headboards that add a up to date je-ne-sais-quoi to this tackle owned by Australian cooks James Henry and Shaun Kelly.
After slicing their tooth on the Parisian bistronomic scene, the buddies moved to the realm in 2017 and started this venture that comes an impeccable historic, inventive and now gastronomic pedigree.
Le Doyenné
To wit: Early information place a stately corridor courting again to feudal occasions on the property, which later turned the nation retreat of the Countess du Barry, the favourite of French king Louis XV. It’s now owned by the Mortemart household, who’ve referred to as it house for over two centuries.
Within the Nineteen Seventies, the area now occupied by Le Doyenné’s restaurant was the workshop through which artists Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely created their monumental sculptures.
Some 5 years and a bunch of extremely expert native artisans able to preserving the integrity of a listed historic web site had been wanted to transform the centuries-old barn into its present incarnation.
Lofty home windows within the restaurant open onto an orchard and expansive vegetable backyard, cultivated following regenerative agricultural practices. It has since yielded the wonderful produce that’s discovered on the desk — and a Michelin star in 2023.
Le Doyenné
5 Rue Saint-Antoine, 91770 Saint-Vrain
Tel: +33 6 58 80 25 18
