Arpège (restaurant)
Arpège (, Arpeggio) is a 3 Michelin-star French restaurant in Paris. The chef is Alain Passard. It was previously known as L'Archestrate by Alain Senderens. Passard bought the restaurant from Senderens in 1986. It earned one star in the Michelin Guide in its first year, and earned two soon thereafter. It earned three Michelin stars in 1996, which it has maintained since. It was voted the 8th best restaurant in the world, in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2018. Arpège is noted for being suitable for vegetarian and vegan dining. In popular culture Two of its chefs have been challengers on Iron Chef, the popular cooking competition show on Fuji TV in Japan. Passard represented France in the 1997 Iron Chef World Cup in Kyoto and beat American Patrick Clark with homard lobster as the theme in the Western semifinal before tying Iron Chef Japanese Komei Nakamura in the final with foie gras as the theme. Passard then faced Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai as the final challenger with long gang chicken as the theme in a battle to determine the world's best chef, with Sakai winning narrowly. Tetsuya Shimada, a Japanese who worked at Arpège from 1987 until