ristorazione — Fontainebleau · Île-de-France
In Fontainebleau, less than an hour from Paris, Italian cooking has found a precise address: Démé brings to Seine-et-Marne a repertoire of dishes from the Peninsula built on recognisable ingredients, served every day for lunch and dinner.
Fontainebleau, town of the château and the royal forest, is home to an address that brings Italian cooking to the heart of Île-de-France. Démé is a restaurant that makes no attempt to pass as a French bistro: the sign is in Italian, the repertoire is in Italian, and the welcome follows the Italian way — the warmth of people with something precise to tell.
The dining room is open every day of the week, for lunch and dinner, from midday to two thirty and from seven to ten thirty in the evening. A continuity of service that demands organisation and a deliberate choice: Démé has decided to remain available without seasonal interruption, for anyone seeking a steady Italian reference point in town.
In the kitchen, the work rests on recognisable Italian raw materials: fior di latte mozzarella and buffalo mozzarella AOP, crisp guanciale, 'nduja, taggiasca olives, smoked scamorza, pesto genovese, prosciutto di Parma aged for twenty-four months. Ingredients that leave no room for improvisation, and that set the tone of every pizza and every dish on the menu.
At the finish, the plate speaks for itself: the choice of ingredients, and the direction of a kitchen that has never stopped being Italian.
