THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED As La Régalade – whose first incarnation was a cramped little bistro with great food on the southern edge of Paris – opens new branches, the interiors become more elegant and the locations more central, … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Marsangy is a restaurant that had dropped off my radar since I reviewed it for Paris Update in 2006. A couple of months ago, as I was walking through the neighborhood on an icy evening … Read More
UPDATE, JULY 16, 2019: THE SET MENU HAS GONE UP TO €32, STILL A GREAT BARGAIN FOR FOOD OF THIS QUALITY. Where can you get an excellent gourmet meal in Paris for less than €20? In a Chinese takeaway, of … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED, REPLACED BY OKTOBRE. It’s always fun to discover and review a new restaurant, but it’s also important to revisit places that have been around for a while and find out what they have become. When … Read More
The trendy new place to dine in Paris these days — apart from 6 Paul Bert — is Richer. It has a big advantage over the aforementioned 6 and its own mother ship across the street, L’Office: it is open on … Read More
La Bonne Cécile: cozy and comforting. We were greeted at La Bonne Cécile, a new restaurant in Paris’s third arrondissement, by a pug named Gaspard and two smiling humans, one of whom warned us that Gaspard was having a little … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED A pleasing urban buzz animates Pan, a trendy but unpretentious Paris restaurant where you get the feeling that you are in the right place at the right time. Even the neighborhood, which until recently had … Read More
The conceit at Braisenville, a Paris restaurant that has been open for over a year now, is that everything is cooked over coals. While this might not sound like a recommendation in itself, the level of creativity, craft and quality … Read More
What do you look for in a Paris restaurant on a cold, stormy winter’s evening? A warm, cozy place serving hearty, well-sourced French food of good quality served by helpful, friendly staff, of course. Not so easy to find these … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Pascade is a new Paris restaurant offering something a bit different. Opened in November by Michelin-two-star chef Alexandre Bourdas of Restaurant SaQuaNa in Honfleur, it presents everything in a sort of dish-shaped crêpe, called a … Read More
