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A small restaurant where the chefs were trained by some of the greatest names in American gastronomy.
It is difficult to classify this small restaurant in a well defined category. The concept of Moko and Omar is clean. These two have an atypical route that he would be too long to tell, but know just that she was a lawyer in New York where she met Omar. They were trained by very large American, English and French gastronomy. In Paris he's a former Sergeant Recruiter and is a ex of Yam'Tcha. Their place is like them, without a label. They will cook what they like: broccoli soup, pancetta and black cabbage or hoummos, épaule milk lamb shoulder and smoked peppers etc. Our papillae shake every bite. Hyper cookies are top… Some dishes and cakes are gluten free.
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Café is a misleading term given the quality of the food, and the price. It’s not cheap, though the recent spike in oil and produce prices have made both eating out and running a restaurant more challenging.
I discovered Mokonuts from an NYT 25 dishes to eat in Paris article and like how Hiramaya-san described food. I looked up the restaurant she and her husband had in the 11th, like their philosophy and approach to food and made a booking.
The NYT article may be why most of my fellow diners had American accents, a mix of expats and tourists like me, though a French-speaking walk-in was politely and regretfully turned away as the restaurant was fully booked. The owner knew, from my broken French grammar when I called, that switching to English would be a more efficient conversation. Much as I like bumbling with my terrible French in Paris, it’s nice to be able to exhale and not worry about saying the wrong thing or be seen as that annoying tourist that expects the world to speak English.
You know a place cares about feeding people well when they welcome solo diners. Parisians can be quite cliquey, so it was nice that this is a place where I ended up having a nice chat with the person whom I was sat next to. It had that NYC vibe, where if we were both expats we could have found a new friend to hang out with.
I think I enjoyed the experience more as it’s an owner operated place. I had 3 courses and a glass of wine and water.
24 hours later, I am still regretting not asking for an order of the cookies to go, which the regulars seem to love.
On a cold rainy day, this room behind the fogged up windows was a lovely place to be. Easy to get to on the 8 metro. Book ahead.
Le prix ne vaut pas le déplacement .