Expected September 29, 2026. Available for pre-order today!
English edition, published by Apartamento.
Le Chateaubriand is the oral history of the inimitable Parisian restaurant in the 11th arrondissement that launched the wave known as bistronomy and pulled half the city’s gastronomy scene along with it. In 2006, Iñaki Aizpitarte and Fred Peneau took over a century-old bistro, and now, 20 years later, more than 100 voices and an archive of stories and photos come together to tell Le Chateaubriand’s notorious, stratospheric lore.
Originally published in French in 2024 and built from over 100 interviews conducted by François Chevalier and Stéphane Peaucelle-Laurens, Le Chateaubriand arrives in English and gathers chefs, sommeliers, critics, waiters, and regulars into a single, sprawling compendium—a chorus of voices reminiscing while documenting the uncanny plates, drunk escapades, friends gained and friends lost, Michelin stars and one-star reviews.
Your favourite chefs’ favourite chefs—Alain Ducasse, Ferran Adrià, Pierre Hermé—appear alongside the dozens personalities who were vital to Chateaubriand’s own rise. Sitting at the intersection of restaurant history, design object, and deep dive into a subculture, it’s a sonogram of the highs and lows, the labyrinthine quest for adventure, experimentation, and a really good time.
As Inaki bows out, 20 years later, he leaves a renegade history in his wake, settled into this volume as the record of an indisputable marathon to achieve something unheard of in the 2000s kitchen: freedom.
