World's Strangest Restaurants
Pomze, Paris
The Weird Factor: Created by Daniel and Emmanuel Dayan, Pomze is a gourmet Parisian restaurant devoted to a singular fruit: apples. The restaurant is so obsessed, in fact, that it uses more than 120 varieties and adds the flavor to all its menu items. You can feast on the likes of gazpacho with granny smith–juice ice cubes in the converted Haussmann-style apartment or, for something more casual, head downstairs to the stone cider cellar, full of old cider bottles. Some elixir highlights: sweet draught cider from Northern Brittany and Nayade, a blend of pure granny smith apple juice and Polish vodka. And don’t miss the gourmet shop, with enough apple-based products—from calvados to chutney—to keep the doctor comfortably at bay for a decade.
Signature Dish: Caramelized pork ribs with three-apple salad.
Info: 109, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris; www.pomze.com
