Colonnes

Daniel Buren's stately columns.

En face

A sculpture on a table of accessories at a concept boutique on the Right Bank.

L'Éclaireur

40 rue de Sévigné 75003

Fashion (fooding) week #5

A light sharing lunch at a relaxed Montmartre restaurant with an open kitchen, country épicerie ambiance and views down rue Lepic.

Below: baguettes and fresh produce at the counter; fresh asparagus en salade; duck foie gras with fig chutney and toasts; lobster tartines

Restaurant Jeanne B

61 rue Lepic 75018 

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With thanks again to one/all, and as for the places not shown, that's for another time.

Fashion (fooding) week #4

Willi's Wine Bar offers the simple pleasures of life - art and wine, shared amongst good company - Willi's Wine Bar website

Willi's, off the beaten Fashion Week chemin (sorry L'Avenue) with its contemporary feel and just behind the gardens of the Palais-Royal, was a magnet for the fashion set come lunchtime. 

Besides excellent food, plenty of quality wines to choose from.

Willi's Wine Bar
"La vie, le vin, l'amitié"
13 rue des Petits-Champs 75001
  
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Tomorrow
 Casual chic on the butte

 

Fashion (fooding) week #3

Few places, even in the Greek Islands we agreed, compare to this Montmartre mezze mecca where our group managed to nab a last minute reservation thanks to a wildcat métro strike.

Recommended: grilled fresh octopus atop broad bean purée; crunchy fresh spinach samosas; papille-popping moussaka; fried feta with grilled Mediterranean veggies; anything with fish.

 

Atma rosé and Olympian Retsina by the bottle

Ētsi

23 rue Eugène Carrière 75018

Merci Mikaela

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Tomorrow

Not just wine

Fashion (fooding) week #2

A convivial evening was had by all at this casual Les Halles bistrot, overseen by Alain Ducasse, which I'd written up as part of a "Paris restaurant marathon" piece.
[also posted here Extreme Fooding: Champeaux]

Above: poulet en crapaudine with its silky purée en cocotte (a house specialty); plump fresh codfish atop white Tarbais beans; creamy coquillettes laced with smoky ham and black truffle

Below: after-dinner Cognac is siphoned then deposited into glasses
 

 

 

Champeaux

Forum des Halles La Canopée 75001

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Tomorrow
It's Greek to me

Fashion (fooding) week #1

   Looking back, I realized that this year's autumn Fashion Week might as well have been called "Fashion (fooding) week."

Since September I've been meaning to post some of the many dining and imbibing spots - among old (and new) friends - before, during, and just after Paris Fashion Week.

Above: Fouquet's, with its red awning dominating a corner on the Champs-Elysées, was a fitting, reliable, and très parisien point de rendez-vous

Inside: small plaques next to tables denote some of its star-studded habitués from past and present.

 

Outside: a shining walkway bears the names of recipients of French cinema's coveted César Award.

 

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Founded 1899 / listed a historical French monument 1990

Menu in collaboration with Chef Pierre Gagnaire

Brasserie Le Fouquet's
99 Avenue des Champs-Élysées 75008

  To Michael

 

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Tomorrow
Le Ventre de Paris: Ducasse revisited