Paris – A new multipurpose café, restaurant and grocery store selling regional, artisanal food has opened in Le Marais, Paris.
The 500-square-metre Maison Plisson was designed by architects Julie Lafortune and Nicolas André. It features a 60-seat restaurant, two-storey market hall and wine cellar.
Before opening Maison Plisson, founder Delphine Plisson spent three years travelling the length and breadth of France, testing 10,000 different delicacies, 3,000 of which were selected to be sold in-store.
‘My priority was foods that people would actually buy and eat or cook with, not things that were rare and exotic for the sake of being rare and exotic,’ says Plisson.
Local delicacies selected for Maison Plisson include Jacques Selosse champagne, honey from the Breton island of Belle-Île and spice bread from Maison Toussaint in Dijon, Burgundy.
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