Best Seasonal Restaurants in Saint-Denis

Attentive and friendly staff. Delicious food. Just cool locals. Saved for my next trip back to Paris.

Did the 5 course menu with a 4 glass wine pairing. An excellent way to try some outstanding dishes. Enjoyed the amuse-bouche. The two starters I had were the amberjack in a delicious ponzu bergamont sauce and the scallops. My fish dish was a great pollock and my meat dish was the beef tenderloin. The beef tenderloin was perfectly cooked! Dessert was the incredible vanilla pana cotta! Absolutely loved the dessert!

This spot is really cute, food is great, and the service was excellent thanks to André. The ground level is a beautiful restaurant and bar with nice plants between each table creating a somewhat private feel (so you Arne t looking to your side and staring at the race of someone at the table next to you. The upper floor is like a restaurant and club, with a live DJ on the night we were there, and folks singing karaoke. Everyone entering was either well dressed, or dressed for a night out clubbing as they stopping to take pictures on the iconic stairs. Waiter rushing by with bottle service requests, flares/fireworks, and lots of dancing and food. This place was worth the visit on a freezing day. When we left it was pouring down rain and we didn’t have the right clothing on, our waiter even took care of us to make sure we had an umbrella.

I am an absolute sucker for a gorgeous dish, so I decided to book myself a table at ANONA to cap off a two week trip through the Balkans. I arrived thirty minutes early, was seated promptly by an extremely welcoming maître de, and was left to settle in with my book while the bartender crafted me a cocktail based on my favourite liquor (whiskey) and desired tasting notes (a bit sweet, something fruity and unique). Appropriately enough I was reading “Eat a Peach” by chef David Chang and had landed on a passage where he recalled a family meal with chefs of different tongues and how the element of not fully knowing what he was eating enriched his experience. He was absolutely correct. Though the wait staff (by my count I was served by maybe 5 or 6 different staff members) did their best to cater to my monolingual ignorance, I didn’t always catch the full descriptions of the incredible six courses that were served to me. There were sea water emulsions, roe, gorgeous proteins, intricately composed savoury sorbets, and so many local flavours that married expertly with the varied textures and temperatures that cohesively came together in an expertly crafted meal. There were some dishes I favoured over others but I believe for the price and quality of the food, let alone the experience, I would absolutely recommend ANONA. On top of a unique chefs menu, the restaurant itself is pristine and the staff are incredibly attentive and professional. I did not go more than five minutes without extending thanks to someone for excellent service. Well done.