Tea and tajine

Steaming hot mint tea poured tableside and savory lamb tajines brighten a rainy day.

Tea Room
La Grande Mosquée
39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire 75005 

Adieu Monsieur Haffmann

A section of rue Berthe and rue Androuet in Montmartre has been eerily turned into a 1940's film set of Paris under the Occupation.

Adieu Monsieur Haffmann

Director: Fred Cavayé

Based on the play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre 

[filming begins today]

Low key fashion

With apprehension surrounding the coronavirus, this season's Fashion Week was noticeably low key.

March newsletter

The flower vendor

 

For years this man has sat outside the same metro entrance selling flowers.

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Update July 20, 2020 - Eyes without a face:

  Months later, the same man, wearing a mask

Art all around you

Chagall, Monet, Renoir, Yves Klein (that Klein), more.

All in one place.

Larger than life.

 New exhibition

L'Atelier des Lumières

The end of the line

Tourists from China waiting for luxury brand store Hermès to open last fall.

Below: yesterday

Chocolate plus chocolate

Rich hot chocolate served with chocolate crêpes warm up cold afternoons at local café.