L'Ours - Jacky Ribault

L'Ours is a product-driven modern restaurant in Vincennes. The kitchen improvises daily set menus from produce supplied by local artisans, small-scale farmers and artisanal fishermen, privileging ingredients from the Île-de-France region. Dining is anchored by carefully priced multi-course menus and considered wine pairings, with options of three to six courses plus a special menu built around exceptional products. The space was conceived with his wife Valérie Ribault and architect Caroline Tissier, combining raw materials and sculptural light to create an accessible, intimate interior. An open room is dominated by a large luminous sculpture and pairs steel, concrete and copper with warm light; the layout includes a lounge, a corner bar, an open kitchen and a table d'hôte for ritual-like dining. Cuisine is modern and entirely product-led: no set carte, menus improvised daily according to seasonality and producers' availability, marrying rustic raw elements with refined flavours and guided by childhood memories. Chef Jacky Ribault trained in Brittany, is from a farming background and opened Qui Plume la Lune in Paris in 2010, which earned a Michelin star in 2014. Specialties: Le Pilier (three-course lunch), L’Aubinière (five-course lunch), La Roche-aux-Fées (three-course dinner), Le Theil-de-Bretagne (six-course), La Sapinière (six-course focused on exceptional products) and selection of cheeses.