The Verdict
COMICE is the restaurant that Canadian sommelier Etheliya Hananova and French chef Noam Gedalof opened together in the Passy neighbourhood, creating a room that is simultaneously a serious natural wine bar, a Michelin-starred contemporary French kitchen, and the most personally expressive restaurant in the 16th arrondissement. The combination of Hananova's wine programme and Gedalof's cooking has produced a restaurant whose identity is inseparable from the specific relationship between the two founders.
The wine programme at Comice reflects Hananova's specific knowledge of natural wine producers across France and the world, assembled with the depth of a specialist who has visited the vineyards and knows the winemakers personally. The foie gras course — the dish that the restaurant has become most associated with — arrives with a specific natural wine pairing whose combination of the sweet-salty-fatty preparation and the wine's specific acidity produces a flavour resolution that defines what the pairing tradition can achieve.
One Michelin star in the 16th for a restaurant whose identity communicates that the most accomplished Paris dining is not exclusively in the 8th arrondissement's palace hotels. The Passy neighbourhood setting provides the residential calm that allows the cooking and the wine to occupy the full attention of the guests.
Why It Works for a Proposal
Comice's personal identity — the restaurant that two people built together, whose character is inseparable from the specific relationship between the sommelier and the chef — creates the proposal setting whose own story resonates with the occasion. The Passy neighbourhood is quiet and beautiful. The foie gras pairing is the evening's most memorable moment. Inform the team when booking.
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