AM par Alexandre Mazzia

Chef Alexandre Mazzia took the third Michelin star at AM in 2021, and almost nothing about the place is conventional. He was a professional basketball player before he cooked, he grew up in the Congo, and that childhood runs straight through his food — a virtuoso run of spices, roasting and smoking across some forty small dishes, with signature oddities like smoked-eel chocolate and algae popcorn. The room near the Vélodrome seats only about twenty, kitchen open to the tables, concrete and oak and no tablecloths. The name itself is a double meaning: his initials, and the French word for soul. Three Michelin stars. Come with an open mind and an empty stomach.