Heidi Ellison
Cock Art
Silly Name for Brasserie with Potential
Cock Art has a designer decor complete with trophy motorcycle. The Paris restaurant scene seems to be all cock and balls these days. After the opening of Balls at the beginning of the year, we now have Cock Art on … Read More
Nina
Great New Bistro Crops Up Over the Summer
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED A bright, clean decor for the new restaurant Nina.How wonderful to return to Paris from summer vacation and find that a new restaurant, Nina, has opened in your absence. And how even more wonderful to … Read More
Le Pavillon Puebla, Vincent Cozzoli
Desperately Seeking A Summer Terrace
The terrace would be perfect if it weren’t for the music and the lighting.Last week’s foray into the Parc des Buttes Chaumont for dinner at the Pavillon du Lac was less than a success cuisine-wise, but we enjoyed eating in … Read More
Le Pavillon du Lac
Lakeside Dining in Paris Park
The 19th-century Pavillon du Lac in Paris’s Parc des Buttes Chaumont. When it’s 34 degrees C (93 degrees F) in Paris at 7pm and you’re going out to dinner, you have one priority: find a restaurant with a leafy terrace. … Read More
Simone
Natural in the Glass, Original on the Table
Last week, I felt that I needed an antidote to bobo bistros, so I went to a stuck-in-the-past brasserie. This week, I felt I needed an antidote to the antidote, and I found the perfect place, the restaurant Simone, thanks … Read More
Le Laumière
Les Emmerdeuses Vont au Restaurant
After eating at Roseval last week, I felt the need for an antidote to bobo restaurants with small servings and overpriced no-choice menus. The perfect opportunity presented itself when I was enlisted at the last minute to find a restaurant … Read More
Paris Disparu, Paris Restitué
Resuscitating Historic Paris Are the hundreds of tourists lined up to visit the Cathedral of Notre Dame every day aware that a layered history of Paris through the centuries lies right beneath their feet in the Archeological Crypt? After a … Read More
La Pointe du Groin
Getting Your Groin’s Worth
I have always been a fan of the food at Chez Michel, located near the Gare du Nord and pretty much a Paris institution now, but I have never been a fan of the gloomy atmosphere and indifferent servers, who … Read More
Dining Out in Paris & En Vrac
Restaurant Tips and Good Wine in Bulk
American in Paris Tom Reeves, author of the guidebook Paris Insights, has just published a new e-book, Dining Out in Paris – What You Need to Know before You Get to the City of Light, designed for tourists and newcomers … Read More
Il Etait une Fois l’Orient-Express
All Aboard The Fantasy Train
Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t wish he or she had traveled from Paris to Istanbul on the Orient Express, the fabled train of James Bond movies, Agatha Christie novels and many, many other literary and cinematic works? … Read More