Amuse-bouche

ANGELA KONG • Bouche & Rori

ANGELA KONG • owner & experience creator • Bouche & Rori
Neighborhood you work & live in: 11th arr

It’s Friday afternoon. How are you rolling into the weekend?
When everything’s going well at our restaurants, and there are no replacements to handle, we work from Sunday to Thursday, so the last day is always intense. We give it our all to wrap up as many tasks as possible, and be free on Friday and Saturday. It’s a bit of a race, the start of a busy day ahead.

What’s on the agenda for today?
I start with a coffee at Comets or Chanceux, which are on my route between home and the restaurants. I check the weekend reservations, go through Bouche and Rori’s Instagram accounts, then move on to setting up and serving lunch at Rori.

In the afternoon, I have a few meetings, often with both teams, and run some errands in preparation for the weekend. At 6p, I take 20 minutes to calm down for the staff meal before getting ready for the evening service at Bouche. I usually get home around 2a, just in time to take our dog Hero for a quick walk.

Any restaurant plans today, tonight, this weekend?
I love going to Le Dauphin on Fridays. It’s one of my favorite places in the neighborhood, and they have my friend Anthony Salomon’s fish soup on Fridays at noon, which I adore. On Saturdays for lunch, I enjoy Double Dragon, in the 11th, or Mehmet, in the 18th.

What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
My Lemaire croissant bag.

What store or service do you always recommend?
Yvon Lambert bookstore, in the 3rd.