Mocha Monday

 

 A café noisette gets upstaged by a buttery kouign-amann.

 

Mocha Monday

A petit déjeuner of hot coffee and still warm viennoiseries starts a cold day.

 

 

A Paris croissant

Getting it straight. Not curved.

June newsletter

Paris popovers

 With another confinement looming it's time to preheat the oven.

 

Above and Below: French popovers - smaller, detached, more self-assured

 

 

 

Above: homemade whole wheat popovers w/hints of nutmeg

Below: this morning's lemon zest merveilles (accompanied by butter, jams, honey, coffee, tea)

 

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Recipes November newsletter

 

A Franco-American breakfast

 Our usual petit-déjeuner of coffee, tea, baguette toasts, butter and confitures was joined by decidedly Anglo-Saxon visitors: bacon, eggs, and hash browns

Above: organic fresh eggs baked atop a base of crunchy pan-fried hash browns are garnished w/smoky caramelized bacon curls and coriandre; sliced avocado, red onion accompany

A surprise breakfast

Some days, it's nice to wake up to a surprise.

It wasn't the typical French petit-déjeuner, and it wasn't Café de Flore, c'est vrai.
It was better.

Menu: just-right oeufs à la coque, toasted baguette, crispy bacon, mascarpone topped with the season's first strawberries, strong coffee (w/cream for my crème), artisanal preserves (blueberry; passion fruit-mango) and honey. Everything fresh, everything perfection. And butter.

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Tentative date for re-opening of Paris cafés, bars and restaurants: June 15th

An early breakfast

Coffee, freshly-squeezed jus d'orange, croissants and pains au chocolat at the counter.

A sunny table

Early coffees with a kouign-amann and cherry-studded "yaya" en terrasse.

A Sunday breakfast

A steamy cafè au lait and custard-filled croissant aux amandes.

Petit déj' en terrasse

Flaky croissants, jus d'orange freshly pressé and a grand crème get this day off to a great start.