Heidi Ellison
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
Paris Vu par Hollywood
City of light and licentiousness While visiting “Paris Vu par Hollywood,” the new exhibition at Paris’s Hôtel de Ville, I realized that the dreamily romantic vision Americans have of Paris probably owes as much, if not more, to the eight … Read More
Coude à Coude
Where Has All the Offal Gone?
I have a sad tale to tell today. Last night I went to a restaurant called Coude à Coude near the Forum des Halles. The first time I went there a couple of years ago, our table was the only … Read More
Auberge Flora
Flora’s New Queendom Already Winning Hearts
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED One of the friends I dined with recently at Auberge Flora proclaimed it the best restaurant meal she’d had in the 10 years she’s lived in Paris. For me that vote would still go to … Read More
Terroir Parisien
High Expectations for Top Chef’s Locavore Bistro
When Yannick Alléno, three-star chef at the Hôtel Meurice, opens a new restaurant, Parisians sit up and take notice. The excited buzz started even before the place opened, raising expectations to the point where many critics were disappointed with the … Read More
Mori Venice Bar
Elegant Comfort Food in a Soothing Atmosphere
The Mori Venice Bar is the kind of place you seek out when you want to feel cosseted while enjoying a long, relaxed and relaxing meal in a calm atmosphere. The service, although sometimes a bit slower than warranted by … Read More
Jean Prouvé in Nancy
Building for Better Days Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) proved his talent as an innovative designer and builder over and over again during his long career, but he doesn’t seem to have received the respect and recognition he deserved from the French … Read More
Aux Verres de Contact
Human Contact The Missing Element
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Having had my plan to lunch at Aux Verres de Contact thwarted last week by a power cut that closed the restaurant, I was eager to try it, so I called the next day to … Read More
C’Etaient des Enfants
Search and Deportation: The Children Speak
Children absorb and reflect the world of their elders. At Drancy, the internment camp in France from which over 67,000 Jews, 6,000 of them children, were deported to the Nazi extermination camps, “ordinary life sometimes took over,” said Odette Dattroff-Baticle, … Read More