Les Bistronomes
Les Bistronomes is the French restaurant Clément Chauvin and Abel Bariller opened in October 2014, originally in Braddon and now on the Campbell village strip at Blamey Place. Chauvin trained in Lyon and Geneva, cooked at Anne-Sophie Pic's two-Michelin-starred Pic in Valence and under Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's in London, ran Bistro Paris in Sydney, and worked through Tastevin in Darlinghurst before moving to Canberra in 2010 — Sage and Water's Edge before opening his own room. Bariller works the floor as co-owner and sommelier. The kitchen is "bistronomique" — bistro plus gastronomie — built around classical French technique: Beef Wellington with foie gras and mushroom duxelles, ash-crusted duck à l'orange flamed at the table, La Bourride, escargot in garlic-parsley butter, bouillabaisse. Five-, six- and eight-course degustations alongside an à la carte menu that rotates seasonally.