Welcome to Au Bon Manger / Atome
ATOME (formerly known as Au Bon Manger) is an original, immersive food & music experience.
You can come for lunch or dinner, but only around ten guests are currently accepted per service. The idea is to serve less to serve better.
There’s just one menu at 80 euros / person (wines not included) with two starters, a hot dish, cheese and an incredible list of champagnes and wines from independent winemakers.
There’s no children’s menu, no veggie option.... but maybe you already know all that, you mustn’t be here by chance!
Reservations must be made by e-mail on the ATOME website.
We’ve redone the façade (in green), refurbished the interior and added a high-end vintage hifi system to turn it into a listening room in the spirit of what you’d find in Japan.
You can still come and buy wines and champagne to take away.
It was good before, it’s even better now, quite simply.
PS : ATOME is the new name we’ve chosen for our one and only address at 7 rue Courmeaux in Reims but l’Épicerie Au Bon Manger remains our legal and commercial entity.
History and philosophy
We moved from Paris to open Au Bon Manger in Reims in 2008. Aline worked in fashion in Paris for more than a decade, and Eric worked in public radio and music publishing for over thirty years. We had always loved and spent all our money on food and wine, and especially those made by hand, on a small scale, with a passion for quality and truth to materials. Eventually, we decided that we wanted our work to focus on what we loved—and so Au Bon Manger was born. Our friends in Paris said we were mad to do it.
At the beginning, we focused on stocking only food and wine made in France, by hand. We wanted to support the reinvigoration of responsible agriculture through artisanal businesses. We always and only worked with small-scale producers because we never tasted anything good, anything with real energy, made in enormous factories at industrial scale.
In the 15 years since we opened Au Bon Manger, we’ve come across passionate producers of wine and food from beyond France. We realised that we don’t really care about where something is made — what we care about is the feeling and the taste of things made by hand, with passion, and with a focus on truth in materials. This is the thread that runs through everything we do at Au Bon Manger.
The Au Bon Manger manifesto by Aline and Eric Serva, 2018
"We defend food prepared with passion by small family businesses. They guarantee you a great time of enjoyment of taste while actively supporting a real economy that continues to create jobs, valorizes crafts in the city as in the countryside and preserves our ecosystem"