Heidi Ellison
Cinémorphe
Mystery Soirée Morphs into Surrealism Some strange events occurred during “La Soirée Exceptionnelle.” Photo: Pierre Grosbois 2013A mysterious invitation to “La Soirée Exceptionnelle, 1972” recently turned up in my inbox. It came from a new group called Cinémorphe and promised … Read More
Bistrot Populaire
Back to the Future with Better Bistro Food
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED I discovered the other day how difficult it is to find a good restaurant open for lunch on Saturday in Paris. After calling several places I had been wanting to test, I tried the Bistrot … Read More
Antoine de Montmartre
Upgrading Montmartre’s Culinary Landscape
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED As my friend Bonnie, who lives in Montmartre, will tell you, precious few of the many, many restaurants on the butte are praiseworthy, so I was delighted to discover that a new bistro called Antoine … Read More
La Ménagerie
Paris Update Flash News NEW CATS IN TOWN La Ménagerie, the zoo in Paris’s Jardin des Plantes, has three new feline residents, all of them male and all of them born in zoos in Poland. Aramis (below left), a stunning … Read More
Au Rendez-vous des Camionneurs
Au Rendez-vous des Camionneurs
Au Rendez-vous des Camionneurs looks like anything but a truck stop, especially now that its new owners have spiffed up its interior with orange tables and turquoise banquettes and the menu with sophisticated dishes. It’s especially hard to imagine an … Read More
Neva Cuisine
Just Desserts in Train-Track Desert
Located near the no-man’s-land created by the train tracks running out of the Gare Saint Lazare, Neva Cuisine is something of an anomaly in the neighborhood. With its elegantly simple modern furnishings, high ceilings and 19th-century-style glass-ball chandeliers, it looks … Read More
Ciacco
La Mamma Keeps Customers Happy
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED If there were any doubt about Paris Update’s former restaurant reviewer Richard Hesse’s ability to sniff out a good restaurant, it can now be put to rest. On a visit to Paris recently from his … Read More
Abri
Far More than Just Shelter from the Storm
The restaurant Abri, whose name means “shelter,” literally provided refuge from the rain on a recent October evening, although I almost walked by its unassuming, brightly lit glass façade — from the street it looks more like a takeaway sandwich … Read More
Restaurant Pierre-Sang
Leftover Night: Hard Cheese Indeed
The new restaurant recently opened on the Rue Oberkampf in Paris’s 11th arrondissement by Pierre-Sang Boyer, a 2011 “Top Chef” contestant, had garnered some good reviews, and I was looking forward to trying it out. Our meal there on a … Read More
The New Procopio Angelo
Angelo′s Version of Italian Paradise
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED When I heard that the hole-in-the-wall restaurant Procopio Angelo, which served up some of the best and most authentic Italian food in Paris, had closed, I was desolate. I would never again taste chef Angelo′s … Read More