Street food

All over the Butte Montmartre small restaurants* have set out tables for not only takeaway meals but often coffee, a glass of wine and a friendly chat.

- Addresses in order of appearance below -

1) Marcel - 1 Villa Léandre 75018

2) Etsi - 23 rue Eugène Carrière 75018

3) Imagine - 105 rue Caulaincourt 75018

4) Au Virage Lepic - 61 rue Lepic 75018

* These are just 4 of many. Wander to find your favorite.

 

The visitor

A bicycle is parked beneath a large window of an artist's atelier in Montmartre.

 

Sparkling rosé

  Closed cafés + sparkling spring weather = apéritifs at home.

Above: it's rosé season and shelves are being restocked as quickly as they're emptied

Hamlet

 

 

Easy-to-miss sign on Avenue Junot, "Hameau des artistes" - artists' hamlet.

 

Below: from a balcony overlooking a private courtyard

 

Pots and pandemic

With travel restrictions still in place one way we've been experiencing the world (besides news, films, zooming...) is through food. Well before I spent several months in Tokyo, with stops in South Korea and Thailand on my way back to Europe, Asian cuisines were high on my list, but it wasn't until we stayed in Chiang Mai, did I learn some of the tastier techniques.

 

The secret to whipping up authentic dishes is having the right ingredients at hand and happily, Paris has no shortage of small (and large) Asian supermarkets. But many ingredients - ginger, coconut milk, soy sauce, green onions, hot pepper flakes, garlic, curry paste, basmati - can be found anywhere and don't require a special trip to Chinatown. All of the recipes in today's post use skinless chicken breasts (look for poitrines de poulet), best from local butcher shops. - BPJ

Above: a Japanese hot pot w/chicken slices, green onion, sweet potato

Below: Thai coconut chicken aubergine curry w/brown rice; spicy Korean garlic chicken w/basmati
 

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Recipes June newsletter

Home sweet home

A homeless man settles in on the empty terrace of a popular café, now closed.

Truffle shuffle

Specialty shops selling hard-to-find ingredients are now open.

Above: view from inside La Maison de la Truffe, Place de la Madeleine