Nutty breads

Whole grain breads made with walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios and dried cranberries at a local boulangerie.

 

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Fooding: Sometimes I am invited to review a restaurant and this month will see both old and new stars, to be featured in next month's newsletter.

Nouveautés

Artists out

With spring weather finally here the painters of Place du Tertre are back in force.

A place in the park

A lone chair in the Jardin des Tuileries.

At the foot of the butte

Reminder:

¡Hoy es el día de la paella!

El Tast

70 rue Duhesme 75018

Reserve your portion: 09 50 18 02 26
 

See you there! - BPJ

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Sister resto in Marais:

 
Pessic
102 rue du Temple 75003

More muguets

Last chance to give a muguet, a tradition that began when King Charles IX of France was presented with a bouquet as a token for luck and prosperity on May 1, 1561.

Murano métro

  Writing for USA Today I described this métro entrance as looking as if "hundreds of multi-colored bras had been strung together."

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In May newsletter:

3 hours (or less) from Paris
Tantalizing Tangiers: the Moroccan port city that lured Jean Genet and Paul Bowles; more

Nouveautés

Architextural

Paris' old architecture is well known but there are a great many innovative modern structures as well.

Above: eye-opening façade of the Institut du Monde Arabe

Panels open and close with the passing of the sun, like the lens on a camera or an iris

The Maison de Verre or House of Glass in an enclosed courtyard on the Left Bank

- Thank you Stephen -