Heidi Ellison
Golf Drouot
Rocking to aNostalgic Beat Henri Leproux, founder of the Golf Drouot, with Johnny Hallyday and Eddy Mitchell. © Jean-Louis Rancurel Last week, a little-known (outside of France) clan gathered in the City Hall of Paris’s ninth arrondissement to celebrate its … Read More
Clandestino
What’s the Secret? Creative Food, Cozy Setting
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Last week, a British friend who lives in Paris e-mailed me from New York City with an urgent message: I must eat at Clandestino. Ever obedient, I reserved a table for the following evening. In … Read More
Good Food to Go, Part Two: Grillé, Jules et Shim, Holybelly
Eating Well On the Go
GRILLÉ AND JULES ET SHIM ARE NOW CLOSED, BUT HOLYBELLY IS STILL OPEN Three-martini lunches were never a thing in Paris, but long, wine-soaked ones were. While lots of Parisian office workers still have a hot midday meal in a … Read More
Good Food to Go, Part One: Frenchie to Go, Freddie’s Deli, Caluc, Bulma
Fast Slow Food, Good to Go
ALL FOUR OF THESE RESTAURANT ARE NOW CLOSED Can a foodie have a quick lunch in Paris without compromising his or her culinary standards by going to a fast food restaurant? Absolutely. And it is getting easier and easier as … Read More
Balls
A Whole New Ball Game in The Paris Restaurant World
At first I thought it was another case of hilarious miscomprehension of an English word (see David Jaggard’s “Paris Shop Signs” series on this subject), but one glance at the photo (below) on the Facebook page of the restaurant Balls … Read More
Le Cercle Rouge
Mother-Daughter Bistros: Follow the Red Line
Many years ago, Parisian wine lovers followed the charming Dany Bertin-Denis, a former investment banker, from her little wine bar/bistro Le Moulin à Vins in Montmartre, where many boisterous evenings were spent singing chansons françaises to the tune of an … Read More
Au Bord du Monde
None Shall Sleep On a Paris Street
I went to see Claus Drexel’s Au Bord du Monde (On the Edge of the World), a documentary about homeless people in Paris, because I wanted to know more. How do people end up on the street? Why do they … Read More
Clamato
Next Door to Septime: A Fine Kettle of Fish
Naming a Paris restaurant after an American juice product, Clamato (a mixture of clam and tomato juices, as the name suggests), may seem a bit odd, but there you have it. And when you know that this is the fish … Read More
Culture Sector’s Contribution to the French Economy
VIVE L’EXCEPTION FRANCAISE!
The culture budget is always one of the first to be cut in troubled economic times. To demonstrate the error of this way of thinking, French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti, who gave her annual New Year’s address to the press … Read More
Spring Cookbook
COOKING WITH DANIEL ROSE
Fans of Daniel Rose, the supremely likable American chef/owner of the Paris restaurant Spring, will be happy to hear that he has published his first cookbook, available in French and English editions, illustrated with his own charmingly naïve and witty … Read More