Semaine de
TASTEFUL EVENT During this year’s Semaine du Goût, Oct. 10-18, some 500 chefs all over France will offer special menus at reasonable prices. Click here for details. Favorite
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SECRETS OF DUCASSE’S SAUCES
SECRETS OF DUCASSE’S SAUCES Superchef Alain Ducasse has often been accused of spreading himself too thin, with over 20 restaurants, from Tokyo to Monte Carlo, staffed by underlings he has trained. Now that he has opened a cooking school in … Read More
Chef of the Year
CHEF OF THE YEAR Eric Frechon, chef at Le Bristol in Paris who won his third Michelin star this year, garnered another honor when his fellow chefs, who were attending an event sponsored by the trade magazine Le Chef, recently … Read More
Tour d’Argent
WINE AUCTION RESULTS The famed Tour d’Argent restaurant raked in over €1.5 million, half a million more than expected, at an auction of 18,000 of the 450,000 bottles from its cellar. At the sale, held Monday and Tuesday at the … Read More
Michelin Expands Horizons
MICHELIN EXPANDS HORIZONS The Michelin Red Guide, recently accused of losing touch with the changing world of French cuisine by influential Le Figaro critic François Simon, seems to have taken the criticism to heart and has given a coveted star … Read More
How to Help the French Wine Industry
HOW TO HELP THE FRENCH WINE INDUSTRYVinexpo is the world’s biggest annual professional winefest, this year chalking up 2,400 exhibitors from 48 countries and over 40,000 visitors. French smiles at the event’s undoubted popularity among the international wine community were … Read More
Book Now for Best View
BOOK NOW FOR BEST VIEWThe Everland Hotel, a single hotel room in a box with the best-ever view of the Eiffel Tower, which has been sitting on top of the Palais de Tokyo for the past couple of years, is … Read More
Closing Soon: Eileen Gray, Soto & Julio Le Parc
Paris Update Art Notes CLOSING SOON “Transat” (1926-29) by Eileen Gray. © Centre Pompidou. Photo: Jean-Claude Planchet © DR Only three weeks left to see two fine exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou: “Eileen Gray” and “Soto.” Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was … Read More
FIAC
Paris Update Art Notes PARIS ART FAIR WEEK “Heron and Bridge at The Royal Canal 2” (2013), by Mairead O’Heocha, to be seen at the FIAC stand of Dublin gallery Mother’s Tankstation. FIAC, Paris’s massive modern and contemporary art fair, takes … Read More
Drouot Temps Forts
LES TEMPS FORTS Claude Monet’s “Les Bords de la Seine au Pont d’Argenteuil” (1874), to be auctioned by Claude Aguttes at Drouot on June 27. The works in “Les Temps Forts,” a preview exhibition of highlights from upcoming art and … Read More