Window Wednesday

Looking down onto rue du Nil on a rainy afternoon.

 

Table Tuesday

Chefs ready for a lunch crowd inside fooding mecca Beaupassage on rue de Grenelle.

 

Mocha Monday

An espresso with a butter cookie caps off an October evening.

 

Quartier Les Halles

 

 A bicycle stand outside l'Église Saint-Eustache in the Les Halles district.

 

Floral Friday

 Outside a covered market in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

 

A buvette

(click to enlarge)

 

A simple lunch in the SoPi district.

Buvette

28 rue Henry Monnier 75009

 

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Buvettes are small eateries or counters serving light meals and drinks, often found in train stations or theaters.

 

 

 

Window Wednesday

 Brightly painted panes of glass cheer a gloomy sky near the Bastille.

Turn here Tuesday

 

 

Tiny sign points the way to the Dalí museum in Montmartre.

 

Salvador Dalí's time in Montmartre included addresses on rue Lamarck and, more famously, rue Becquerel, where he joined Gala, wife of poet Paul Eluard whom he'd met in Cadaqués, Spain, and with whom he left and eventually married.

 

 Espace Dalí

 11 rue Poulbot 75018

 

 

Mocha Monday

An afternoon coffee in the Latin Quarter.

 

Sandwich Sunday

 

 

Casser la croûte means "to break crust" and these extra long crusty jambon-beurre sandwiches are ready to be shared. 

 

La Grande Épicerie

 Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche

Vendanges 2024

 

 

- ALL WEEKEND -

 LA VILLAGE EN FÊTE 

Fête des Vendanges 

 Ends Sunday October 13

 

Fruity Friday

Seasonal fruits piled high at a local maraîcher.

Wet Wednesday

 Autumn has truly arrived.

Truffled Tuesday

 

It's almost truffle season.

Above: tarama smothered in black truffle shavings w/a glass of dry white at the truffle counter of La Grande Épicierie 

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche

Mona Monday

 Spotted over a piano in the corner of a small atmospheric café.

 

Surrealism Sunday

 

Designed like a maze, the "Surréalisme" exhibition is an unprecedented dive into the exceptional creative effervescence of the Surrealist movement, born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto.

 Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, the exhibition presents works by the movement’s iconic artists (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró), as well as those by the female Surrealists (including Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Dora Maar)....

 

Exhibition:

 

Surréalisme 

 

 Centre Georges Pompidou

 

Ends January 13, 2025

Sit-down Saturday

In the open courtyard of the Louvre Museum.

 

Fat Friday

 

 

Plump oven-fresh croissants and pastries so good they've been called "scandalous" by the French press.

 

 Join the line at:

 

Cédric Grolet l'Opéra

35 Avenue de l'Opéra 75002

 

 

Day's end

 

 A soft October light floods the Seine river. 

 

 

Wine Wednesday

 

Fine French wines are paired with each course at an intimate tasting dinner in Montmartre.

Mocha Monday

 

From Anvers aux Abbesses

101 Artistes - 63 Ateliers

  Friday November 15 - Monday November 18

- Montmartre opens its doors -

18th and 9th arrondissements

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 Portes Ouvertes 2024

Painting
Photography
Watercolor
Engraving
Sculpture
Drawing
Japanese Nihonga
Collage
Mosaic
Ceramics
Digital art
Street Art

 

Rainy days

 A waiter at the door of a café watches as the rain falls.

Floral Friday

 Flowers set out on the street outside a Montmartre florist.

 

Autumn eve

Parasols seem to glow in the evening sun.

 

 

Tower Tuesday

 

 

Playful display of Eiffel Towers decorate the windows of Le Bon Marché (Rive Gauche) department store.

 

 

 

Mocha Monday

 A warming café crème on a gray September morning.

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Today begins PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

Ends October 1, 2024 

 

Some of the best people spotting cafés:

 

Café de Flore

 

Café Les Deux Magots

 

La Perle

 

Café Marly

 

Café de l'Esplenade

 

L'Avenue

 

 

 

 

Sit-down Sunday

 On a Sunday afternoon near the Paris Stock Exchange.

 

 

Floral Friday

 A lone sunflower atop a table.

 

Sun spot

 

 

Tables are spread out to take advantage of the autumn sunshine.

 

Throwback Thursday

 Charming street small village south of France.

 

Wine Wednesday

 

 

Evening apéro outside a small Italian traiteur in Montmartre.

Above: La Vie en Rosé

 

Table Tuesday

Table lineup in the shadow of Saint-Sulpice.

Above: gone are the summer lunch crowds 

 

Mocha Monday

 

A terrace table makes a colorful background.

 

Seaside Sunday

 

 

 Amber evening: peanuts and Pineau by the sea.

 

Above: the region's celebrated sweet apéritif wine, Pineau des Charentes

 

Paris - La Rochelle

 

3 hours (or less) from Paris

Floral Friday

 A garden chair sits among plants and flowers at a fleuriste on the Left Bank.

 

Wine Wednesday

A basket of corks outside a bistro.

 

 

Tasting Tuesday

 

The sharing planche / "Planche à Partager," once a rarity on menus, has taken over Paris.

Best enjoyed outside at a terrace table.

 Above: a planche mixte 

Mocha Monday

Early coffee a brisk morning a small port.

Paris - La Rochelle

3 hours (or less) from Paris

 

Fairytale Friday

An evening repast under twinkling lights at the foot of a Montmartre stairway.

 

Travel Tuesday

 Streets made to bicycle, beaches made to run, tiny ports.

île de Ré

Paris - La Rochelle

3 hours (or less) from Paris