Café des fleurs

 Left Bank café on a Sunday morning.

Keeping cool

Ice cold gazpacho at a local café, just the thing to take the edge off a hot day.

Born to shop

The much anticipated summer sales are finally here.

Les soldes d'été end August 7, 2018

Temps des cerises

  

It's cherry season and market stalls are overflowing.

Behind the scenes: Opéra Garnier #2

 Marc Chagall's rotund ceiling in the theater teems with musical allegory.

Palais Garnier / L'Opéra de Paris
8 rue Scribe 75009

- More photos in upcoming July newsletter -

Behind the scenes: Opéra Garnier #1

Recently I was invited to a behind-the-scenes look at Charles Garnier's Second Empire masterpiece and setting for the 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera.

Below: section of the infamous see-and-be-seen grand staircase's grandeur

 

Palais Garnier / L'Opéra de Paris

8 rue Scribe 75009

Café on a square

A café seems to glimmer on a beautiful day in the 19th arrondissement.

Subodh Gupta

Extraordinary works using ordinary materials.
 

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Artist: Subodh Gupta / India 

Monnaie de Paris
11 quai de Conti 75006

Ends August 26, 2018

Father's night

A Father's Day dinner; a night to remember.

Fête des Pères 2018

Tour d'Argent

15 quai de la Tournelle 75005

[My father's favorite restaurant in Paris]

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Merci Philippe Labbé

A musical feast

From private jazz soirées to neighborhood street singers, classical chamber groups and blues bands, yesterday's annual Fête de la Musique took over the city.

Stark realism

An exhibition of life-sized nudes is getting its share of double takes from passersby.

Galerie Vallois

36 rue de Seine 75006

Artist: John DeAndrea / U.S.A. / painted bronze

Ends July 22, 2018

En croûte!

Quiches, tourtes and pastry-encased terrines in a Paris charcuterie shop window.
Add cornichons, pickled onions and a nice wine for an hors d'oeuvre fit for royalty.

Lunch high

Lunch at incomparable Le Jules Verne, with friends.

 

Eiffel Tower

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Merci Alain Ducasse

Gird yourself

Headed up the Eiffel Tower for lunch at Le Jules Verne.

- Tomorrow: lunch high -

Fashion as deco

Before

After

Setting up for a fashion reception at luxury Hötel de Crillon.

Ferme to table

Expect asparagus on menus until the end of June.

Horseshoe

The horseshoe-shaped bar gives this café, one of Anthony Bourdain's favorite Paris stops, its name.

Au Petit Fer à Cheval

30 rue Vieille du Temple 75004

Early café

This Left Bank café has a view of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Befitting a relic

Just two stained glass panels from inside La Sainte-Chapelle, constructed as a giant reliquary for The Crown of Thorns.

Dîner en Blanc 2018, in pictures

On June 3rd the world’s largest organized pop-up picnic, the exclusive Dîner en Blanc – Dinner in White - toasted its 30th anniversary, in Paris.

Now in The Good Life France Magazine

First stop

It's early and a little boy waits outside a coffee roaster shop for his father.

 

 

Truffled

Lunch entre copines: truffles, truffles and well, more truffles.

Above: fresh pasta topped with chunks of lobster and truffle shavings; a parmentier of duck and truffles; assorted truffle-laced desserts including crème brûlée flambée; (truffle-less) espresso

In June newsletter

Nouveautés

Below: truffled burrata starters; ravioli with truffles and cream

 

A space of her own

Profile of a young woman.

Diving in

Divers in business suits cavort barefoot above a pub on a Left Bank side street.

June newsletter
Nouveautés

Gastro gala

June has hardly begun and Paris' food and soirée scene is off to a great start.


Above: at American Ambassador's residence for a bien-être gastronomy gala w/starred chefs showcasing synergies of flavors and textures using beautiful healthful ingredients, all U.S. sourced


Special thanks to Jamie McCourt, U.S. Ambassador to the French Republic and Principality of Monaco

 

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