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Image Credit: An artfully bed room designed to cast light on the fishes, floral creations, a stick tile that muffles the steps of a front-of-house team trained in classic attracts. Here, they serve food the old-fashioned way, we have piglain flat under a bell. The lofty ultimate obsessions of a chef who has been dubbed "the tightrope walker of flavours" – adulation of Japan, original presentations – make themselves felt in the fishes. Anne-Sophie Pic now serves a single set menu with seven (lunch only) or ten "ports of call". A member of the highly exclusive club of female three-starred chefs, she is now director of the foundation "Donons du livre à l'enfance". Beyond her boundless talent, she is an iconic figure.