One of the great things I love about living in Paris is that it gives me the opportunity to discover France. It’s just so easy to hop on a train for a weekend escape. A friend and I decided for a productive weekend away learning some new food tricks in Dijon which is just 1h40mins [...]
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Learning to cook Lapin a la Mourtade in Dijon
Posted in Destinations, France - Paris and more, tagged cooking in france, dijon on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Perpignan – a funny little French/Spanish town
Posted in Destinations, France - Paris and more, tagged France, Perpignan on September 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Perpignan is a funny town with the Spanish French mix pretty obvious in architecture, culture and language. Both Catalan and French both prominent languages. It has a few dodgy areas so be careful where you go at night (someone I met had been robbed at knifepoint and my friend and I walked passed someone shooting [...]
Llivia (shh don’t tell anyone)
Posted in France - Paris and more, Spain - Madrid and more, tagged France, llivia, llo, Pyrenees, spain on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to a friend who kindly lent me his family apartment in this Spanish enclave just inside the French border of the Pyrenees. It’s a wonderful place – perfect for those who like hiking or skiing, and for those who like eating after strenuous this activity there are some wonderful restaurants. There are numerous ski [...]
Haute Marais
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, paris, restaurants, restaurants in Paris on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have just spent a few weeks in Paris and have discovered that a whole load of new cafes and bars have sprung up in what used to be a bit of a run down area. It’s by the Marie III and rue Dupuis. I spent a delightful day with friends discovering a few places [...]
St Emilion, France
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I stopped by St Emilion enroute to stay with some friends in the Dordogne and quite honestly, I fell in love. With the town that is. It’s a small pretty town that has kept it’s old French Character and (mostly importantly) which has some fabulous wines. And being just a 15minute drive from [...]
Polidor, Paris (5th)
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, paris, polidor, restaurants in Paris on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An ex colleague has recently moved within Paris and is now by Cluny la Sorbonne, in the 5th arrondissement. I am delighted as I don’t know this area very well. I (wrongly) associate the fifth with St Michel, hoards of tourists and fan restaurants, but there is so much more. We tried to go to [...]
L’avant Gout, Paris (13th)
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, restaurants in Paris on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in Paris recently, a client took my boss and I out for lunch.They had recently moved offices and told us that there weren’t any good places nearby so they had booked a restaurant in the nearby 13th Arrondissement, not far from Place d’Italie. L’avant Gout is run by chef Christophe Beaufront in [...]
Cafe Lezard, Paris (1st)
Posted in Destinations, France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, restaurants in Paris on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently when I was in Paris, a friend took me out for lunch in my favourite area, rue Montorgueil, to a cafe that I have been to numerous times for drinks, but I had never eaten there. What a mistake, how could Cafe Lezard have been on my doorstep for so long without me discovering [...]
Team work at L’Imprimerie, central Paris
Posted in Destinations, France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, restaurants in Paris on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Imprimerie is just south of the Bourse and apparently where the newspaper journalists used to hang out (Imprimerie means ‘the printer’). Only a few of the newspapers are left in that area and they have far more choice of venue so now the Imprimerie hosts a mixed crowd. It’s was one of my favourite [...]
The best hot chocolate in Paris…
Posted in Destinations, France - Paris and more, tagged paris on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
…is apparently at Angelina’s on Rue de Rivoli. It is upmarket – a little like going to the Ritz for tea in London. And you know somewhere is worth visiting when there are frequently queues to get in. A close second on the hot chocolate front, a much more bohemian version, can be found in [...]
