For the first time I took the risk and decided to spend New Year’s Eve as suggested by Eataway.

Why risk ? It was not about the food (I had heard a lot about Pascal Chevriaux’s cooking

reputation) but about the ambience. New Year’s Eve time is to have fun, welcoming new hopes

and saying good bye to old sorrows. Spending the time of joy in a company of several unknown

people always requires social skills and tolerance.

Needles to say, this exceptional evening was simply excellent. True international company

(USA, Korea, Canada, Poland, Netherlands, Norway) only brought multicultural flavor to the

table of fifteen people. Everybody enjoyed so much that the primary plan to end the dinner

after 11:00 pm and attend the famous New Year’s event at the Krakow Market Square was

abandoned. We stayed until 1:00 am, talking, laughing, exchanging ideas and drinking lots of

bubbles and excellent wines carefully paired with food by Pascal.

Ah, food. It was really a feast, very elegant vrai dinner Parisien. We started with the amuse-

bouche with foie gras, fig chutney and toasted brioche. It was finger-licking good, the chutney

and brioche homemade by Pascal. Then came warm appetizer - stuffed savoy cabbage with

shrimps and sauce à l'a méricaine. Pascal is the real sauce master and deserves three stars right

upfront ! At this moment I silently counted on the trou Normand since I have been spoiled

Calvados aficionado for decades. It did not appear but it was inexpensive home dinner, not the

wallet-sucking expensive French restaurant. Pascal continued with boeuf à la Gérard Depardieu,

gratin dauphinois. The meet was literally melting in your mouth and it swam in a bath of

heavenly liquid. I think that the greatest value of Pascal’s cuisine is its delicacy and perfect

balance of flavours. And this is what the best chefs are appreciated for. After solid glasses of

red Côtes du Rhône (before it we had white wine from Loire Valley) time for desserts came.

First famous seasonal galette des Rois, and last – but not the least ! – tiny wonderful French

macarons for which Pascal is already widely respected in the city of Kraków.

To finish this a bit too long story: It was a memorable time provided by Pascal & Magda (his

Polish wife). Each of the guests said the same upon leaving their home into the fireworks

enlighted first night of 2016.