14 February 2025
Le Love
Floral Friday
13 February 2025
Riverside
12 February 2025
Window Wednesday
11 February 2025
Toasty Tuesday
Cafés and restaurants rolled up their sleeves to give it their own spin - fresh herbs, seeds and mixed spices here, smoked salmon, a poached egg, crispy bacon, burrata, or a sprinkling of pomegranate seeds there.
Today the very presence of avocado toast on a menu is a plus, suggesting an awareness of healthy eating. And while the Anglo crowd seems to regard it as mostly a breakfast or part of a brunch, many French still see it as a light lunch, a trendy tartine. - BPJ
Below: tried-and-true
10 February 2025
8 February 2025
Red hot
7 February 2025
Fruity Friday
6 February 2025
Crochet crazy
A giant serpent coils around The Tree of Life in an immense art installation representing the beginning of humankind.
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5 February 2025
Window Wednesday
3 February 2025
Day after the crĂȘpe
Yesterday all over France the ancient festival of La Chandeleur also called la fĂȘte des crĂȘpes, le jour des crĂȘpes, Candlemas in English, was celebrated by indulging in what else, crĂȘpes, for a year of good luck and prosperity.
Below: w/traditional accompaniment dry apple cider
2 February 2025
Sunny Sunday
1 February 2025
31 January 2025
Floral Friday
29 January 2025
Wake up Wednesday
28 January 2025
Twinkling Tuesday
27 January 2025
Mocha Monday
25 January 2025
Weekend wonder
Notre-Dame Cathedral has resumed its place as the jewel of Western civilization.
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24 January 2025
Belladonna
"Tatiana Wolska’s Belladonna exhibition nestles between the political and the intimate, offering a physical and cognitive experience where drawing merges with sculpture. Witches’ plant, good or magic weed known since ancient times, Belladonna, is both the remedy and the poison reminding us that its use requires subtle handling as well as great knowledge. Through the history of this plant, the exhibition promotes proliferation and dialogue in order to unite the familiar and the strange, lightness and ardor, suggestion and claim."
Curated by Marianne Derrien
January 24 - April 20, 2025
22 January 2025
Window Wednesday
21 January 2025
Table Tuesday
20 January 2025
Maison&Objet Monday
Last chance to catch the creativity and beauty that is Paris Design Week.
Full program 2025:
19 January 2025
Sunday lunch
Photo below courtesy of website La Fontaine de Mars
18 January 2025
Sunset Saturday
17 January 2025
Fashion Friday
Spring may seem far away but Paris boutiques are gearing up even as winter sales are still going strong.
Soldes d'Hiver 2025
16 January 2025
Throwback Thursday
During le Covid some businesses placed large stuffed bears in windows, outside on chairs or on rooftops, a reminder that good times lay ahead.
15 January 2025
Window Wednesday
14 January 2025
Tasting Tuesday
A perfect lunch on a wintry day.
Above: simple sharing entrée of radishes, sausages, cornichons; tartine of smoked salmon w/walnut cream cheese, hearty stuffed cabbage, a specialty of the Auvergne