…which I had – amongst too many others – with dear friends on New Year’s eve. You might have mentioned that my blog was down for a while due to my other workload, yet this was too memorable to be skipped. We were four around the table, it was the 31st of December, you know,… [Read more…]
May 30, 2010
…at the Baron Rouge you will find all you need for a nice apéro or rustic lunch or dinner, or you just have a glass at any point of a sunny day watching people passing by and friends shaking hands, you know the deal: this is a feel-good-place, easy-going, nice, very Parisian, just ’round the… [Read more…]
May 11, 2010
…once you’ve entered the Passage des Panoramas, built in 1799, inaugurated in 1800. It’s one of these places you dream of, it’s kind of a remote island in the sea of the very metropolitan Grands Boulevards. You enter – and you’re elsewhere; you leave the city to only really get there, you see, the passages of… [Read more…]
May 9, 2010
…leads to a good party on a Saturday evening in Paris. On my buffet yesterday: mackerels cooked in miso, Vietnamese spring rolls, Wiener Schnitzel as finger food, Thai spiced chicken (with loads of coriander), Japanese-style cabbage salad, Italian-style salade folle, and a lot of FRENCH cheese. Camembert de Normandie, Ossau-Iraty, Valencay and Puligny, Neufchâtel and… [Read more…]
April 11, 2010
…is a one-million-dollar-question in the life of this city. There’s only a couple of choices, actually. You can try your luck in the supermarkets which might sound weird but doesn’t have to be the wrong idea in France. Here, Carrefour, Intermarché and others quite often pick some of the better wines of a year and… [Read more…]
January 3, 2011
2