Tabletop Tuesday

 

 

Too cold to sit outside.

 

Mona Monday

 Mona as a stare-case.

Sit-down Sunday

A little piece of Portugal on a quiet Montmartre backstreet.

Groceries and Coffee 

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Paris is back on CET (Central European Time) today 

Sipping Saturday

 

 

 

Vineyard views + a quiet moment in the Clos Montmartre before glasses are filled. 

Foliage Friday

Inside the Vignes du Clos Montmartre, Paris' last working vineyard.

Throwdown Thursday

 

 

Biáng Biáng: after the riots, pure comfort in a bowl.

 

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Biáng Biáng (also biángbiáng miàn or just biángbiáng), the famous hand-pulled noodles from Shaanxi Province in northwestern China (especially the city of Xi'an), can become so wide they almost need their own arrondissement.

 

Onomatopoeic, biáng biáng mimics the distinct slapping sound made as the thick, wheat dough gets thrown down and slammed, over and over, against the chef’s work counter, then pulled into wide, translucent ribbons of kuandai mian - literally "belt noodles." Traditionally topped with scallions, garlic and finished with a lashing of smoking-hot chili oil, they turn a cold-weather evening into the reason cold-weather evenings exist. - BPJ

 

 

Where to find authentic Shaanxi-style biáng biáng in Paris:

 

La Taverne de Zhao (above)

82 rue Mazarine 75006

(several locations) 

Biangbiang Noodles
48 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris

(also 104 rue de la Roquette 75011)

Suzie Wong
7 rue des Taillandiers 75011

ZG Biángbiáng
16 rue Volta 75003

Biangbiang Noodles (Nooby Shinko)
14 rue Joubert 75009 

 

Nouilles Ceintures* Poissonnières


69 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière 75009

Nouilles Ceintures Montmartre


17 rue du Faubourg Montmartre 75009

Nouilles Ceintures Batignolles


99 rue des Dames 75017

 

* belt noodles 

Warhol Wednesday

 

PORTRAIT: ANDY WARHOL, Une vie en images  

Musée du Luxembourg

  Ends: January 10, 2027 

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Caricature, self-mockery, whimsy: these were the leitmotifs of Andy Warhol's work, yet his true genius lay in transforming the disposable icons of postwar American consumer culture into enduring works of high art. With cool detachment and sly humor, he elevated the banal - Campbell’s soup cans, Brillo boxes. He endlessly repeated portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, and Jackie Kennedy into cool, silkscreened meditations on fame, mass production, and the blurring of art and commerce. Working from his silver-walled Factory, surrounded by a revolving cast of Superstars, drag queens, socialites, and misfits, Warhol turned celebrity itself into both subject and performance, while his deadpan public persona - wigged, soft-spoken, and famously declaring that everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes - became inseparable from the work. In doing so, he permanently altered the relationship between popular culture and fine art, leaving behind a dazzling visual vocabulary and a lasting template for how irony, image, and identity could be endlessly reproduced, packaged, and sold. - BPJ