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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘french restaurants’
Haute Marais
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, paris, restaurants, restaurants in Paris on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A perfect Sunday in Le Marais, Paris
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, restaurants in Paris on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday is my favourite day in Paris. A lazy morning, some kind of ridiculous brunch/lunch menu in the Marais with friends, a wander around stopping at the odd boutique, coffee with more friends, more wandering, maybe another stop for friends and then dinner before going home for a tisane and early night. The Marais is [...]
Opening hours in Paris and Madrid, plus the wonderful ‘Menu del Dia’
Posted in France - Paris and more, Spain - Madrid and more, tagged french restaurants, spanish restaurants on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am highly entertained by the different eating hours in countries that are so close to each other. A while ago when I was in the UK I was hungry into the eveming and was told by the bar/restaurant that I was in that the kitchen had closed, it was 10.05pm. In Madrid they don’t [...]
The Hidden Kitchen, Paris
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, restaurants in Paris on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This place is so good that it deserves a whole post to itself. A friend heard about the Hidden Kitchen and we decided it would be great for a celebration dinner of some type (we usually don’t struggle for excuses between birthdays, jobs and moves to other countries) but every time we tried to book, [...]
Paris restaurants by arrondissement
Posted in France - Paris and more, tagged french restaurants, restaurants in Paris on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These are some of my favourite cafes and restaurants in Paris. They are listed by numbered arrondissements… 1st and 2nd arrondissements – Chatelet, Le Louvre Café Marley by the pyramid of the Louvre – wonderful location and food is good. Get a table on the terasse. Comptoir Gastronomie, rue Montmartre – for fois gras and [...]
