Jium
Korean Comfort Food
I don’t know how many times someone has encouraged me to try a “great” Korean restaurant in Paris. Each time, I found them to be not bad but exactly the same as all the others, with cook-your-own meats on the … Read More
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Picky Spring
Good News for Picky Eaters
When a friend had a party recently, she had it catered. The table was laden with round platters filled with what looked like Chinese spring rolls cut in half. Inside the translucent rice wraps, however, were very different ingredients from those … Read More
Simonetta Restaurant
New Culinary Life on the Canal
Time was you couldn’t find an authentic Italian pizza in Paris to save your soul. Just about every pizzeria, so many of them run by people without a drop of Italian blood, had identical lists of pizzas (margarita, quatre saisons, … Read More
La Condesa Restaurant
A Meal Fit for Royalty
Update, January 16, 2019: On a return visit this week, La Condesa lived up to my first extremely positive impression with more creative, often stunningly good dishes, charmingly served in a handsome decor. The amuse-bouches included a small corn tostada with … Read More
Sellae Restaurant
Italianate Dinner in Paris
After Mensae, reviewed here in 2016, came Sellae, both owned by a certain Thibault Sombardier. Having loved Mensae, I was eager to try the new restaurant in his stable (he also owns Antoine) and went there recently with three friends. One of them, Luca, … Read More
Berty Restaurant
International Melting Pot
One of the new restaurant Berty’s claims to fame, in the press at least, is that it is run by an all-women team. That seems rather beside the point. The other news hook is that vegetables figure prominently on the … Read More
Brutus Creperie
Apart from the Crepe Crowd
Most crepe restaurants seem more or less the same to me, even those known for using top-quality ingredients, like Breizh Café. My friend Terry recently introduced me to a creperie with a difference, however: Brutus on Rue des Dames in the 17th arrondissement. Brutus distinguishes itself … Read More
L’Hommage Restaurant
An Island of French Food in Chinatown
It seems strange – even unnatural – to go to Paris’s main Chinatown in the 13th arrondissement and not eat Chinese food, especially when the wonderful smells of the spices fill the air as soon as you step off … Read More
Melt
Get Thee to Paris (France, not Texas) for Great BBQ
After being invited to the pre-opening of the second branch of a Texas barbecue restaurant named Melt and loving every bite, I decided to lunch at the original to make sure we weren’t being served exceptionally good versions at the … Read More
Paris Polska
Polish Pierogies and More Comfort Food
And now for something completely different… I love Parisian bistronomy, with its fresh seasonal ingredients and new, light takes on old favorites, enhanced with influences from foreign cuisines. But once in a while you just want to eat some serious, … Read More