THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Note: Chef Victor Magsaysay has moved to the restaurant Ito, but his former assistant carries on in the same vein at Sakebar. Dec. 4, 2013 Paris’s hottest new restaurant (according to some of my informants) … Read More
THE BISTRO DES GASTRONOMES IS STILL OPEN, BUT LES TROIS SEAUX IS NOW CLOSED Given comparable levels of food quality and cooking skill and slightly off-the-beaten-track locations, what makes one bistro a popular success while another has a feeling of … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Eat Intuition might be dubbed Women’s Intuition, and I’d like to think it’s a small dose of the latter that propelled me toward this culinary darling of two clearly instinctive women. Meet Isa (Isabella Losada … Read More
Sometimes you’re just not in the mood for a long, drawn-out sit-down meal in a restaurant. One of my favorite places to eat in Paris is L’Avant Comptoir, the tiny sliver of an annex to star chef Yves Camdeborde’s restaurant … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Guess what? I have finally made it to the VIP circle. Or at least that’s what Christophe, the co-owner of Marie et Louise, a small bistro near the Canal Saint Martin, told me when I … Read More
Is It a Butterfly? An Orchid? No. It’s the Light Fairy Nearly 120 years after her triumphal first performance in Paris, Loie Fuller is still working her magic in the Centre Pompidou’s “Dansez sa Vie” exhibition, where a silent colorized … Read More
When a friend told me that she sometimes dreams at night about the sizzling lamb at a Chinese restaurant called L’Orient d’Or, I knew I had to get there soon. French food is wonderful, but now and then I crave … Read More
A new wave of young chefs is creating a renaissance on the Parisian dining scene, some 15-20 years after the first wave of bistronome chefs – Yves Camdeborde, now at Le Comptoir, for example, and Eric Fréchon before he went … Read More
Continuing the gourmet burger saga we started here last week with Le Camion qui Fume, Paris’s first food truck, we paid a visit to another new gourmet burger spot, Blend, a place I had already heard many raves about even … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED For many years, the Place Sainte Marthe, one of Paris’s little treasures, has been frequented by an uneasy mix of bohemians (not quite bobos, or bourgeois bohemians) and drug dealers. There have always been a … Read More
