Hallowe'en

A very Happy Halloween 2024.

 

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Window Wednesday

 

Popular café where chef/author Anthony Bourdain might have been spotted just beyond the windows at its horseshoe-shaped marble counter.

Au Petit Fer à Cheval

30 rue Vieille du Temple 75004

Tasty Tuesday

 

In Paris, you don't find pastries. Pastries find you.

 

Brigat

Place des Vosges

 6 rue du Pas de la Mule 75003

 

 

Mocha Monday

 A morning café crème.

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Saint Sulpice Sunday

 

 

 

Each night the magnificent Church of Saint Sulpice is transformed into a breathtaking sound, light and theater experience, with French history in the spotlight from 1640 until the Revolution.

 

Paris, Coeur de Lumières

(Performance in French - 1 hour 1/2)

 

Ends November 23, 2024

 

Église Saint-Sulpice
2 rue Palatine 75006

  

 

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Sit-down Saturday

A café in the old Marais district draws regulars from all over the city.

 

Fabriqué en France Friday

Made In France - Fabriqué en France:

A unique exhibition traces the history of textiles in France with a remarkable collection of fabrics, from the modest to the luxurious. 

  Archives Nationales - Hotel de Soubise

60 rue des Francs Bourgeois 75003

 

 Ends January 27, 2025

 

Throwback Thursday

 

Back to Île de Ré.

Above: a leisurely early dinner al fresco

 

  Paris - La Rochelle

3 hours (or less) from Paris

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

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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, 2024

 

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. 

 

 

Wine Wednesday

 

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