Plénitude

Plénitude sits beneath a glass dome on the top floor of Cheval Blanc Paris, with the Seine and the Pont Neuf laid out below, Arnaud Donckele's sauces are the headline act.

Donckele's technique, built around dozens of concentrated jus and reductions per dish, turns each course into something closer to a study in a single flavor pushed as far as it can go. Book a dinner table for the dome lit from below after dark, when the room's theatrical scale is easiest to appreciate.

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