Window Wednesday

Not her best angle.

 

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

 

Terrace Tuesday

 And just like that, it was autumn.

Museum Monday

 

 

Pure Parisian happiness. 

Art + Chocolat chaud 

 

Salon du Thé

Mademoiselle Angelina

 

 Musée du Luxembourg

  

Current exhibition:

PORTRAIT: ANDY WARHOL

Ends: January 10, 2027

Seaside Sunday

 
 

 

Edge of day softly meets night Cádiz, Spain.

  

Andalucia

3 hours (or less) from Paris 

Sitting Saturday

 Best seat in town?

Floral Friday

 Flowers for the table.

 

Theater Thursday

 

Lighting up the City of Light... One window at a time.

 

Les Misérables

Théâtre du Châtelet

 

November 11 -  January 10, 2027 

 

Tickets

 

Window Wednesday

 

Dreamy and atmospheric on the French North Atlantic coast.

 3 hours (or less) from Paris

 

Terrace Tuesday

 The forecast said cool, the terrace said, "Pull up a chair."

Marching Monday

 

 

This year's Fête des Vendanges celebrations came and went as Montmartre marched to its own beat.

 

More photos November newsletter

 

 

Below: tourists clink glasses at the end of a long and festive day

Sit-down Sunday

 Waiting for a waiter to notice he's there.

Sitting Saturday

 

A dog’s life... "So where's the meat?"

 

The Butcher of Paris

Marché Couvert des Enfants Rouges

39 rue de Bretagne 75003

 

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Update Monday October 12, 2026
 
Paris woke up to the sad news that the historic Marché Couvert des Enfants Rouges, the oldest covered market in Paris, was "ravaged by flames" in the wee morning hours.
 
The name comes from the nearby Hospice des Enfants-Rouges, where orphans were dressed in red, the traditional color of charity. Its Instagrammable food stalls, street-food, and produce vendors became world renown. The market had evolved into a popular mix of traditional stalls and international street food/traiteur spots after its late-1990s/early-2000s revival. As the city's oldest covered food market still in continuous use (founded 1615 under Louis XIII as the “petit marché du Marais,” later renamed), it was inscribed as a historic monument in 1982. Early versions used wood; after it was acquired in 1912, wooden halls were replaced by metal structures topped with glass roofs. A major rehabilitation (following near-demolition threats in the 1990s for ready, a parking project) took roughly five to six years and led to re-opening around 2000.
 
 The stalls themselves will be easy to replace, and once the shell is usable again restoration should be relatively straightforward. But restoring a functional, historical covered market is a serious project involving structural engineering, heritage oversight, and significant works. The fact that surrounding buildings are intact and the site has strong local and municipal backing makes successful restoration the expected outcome. Official damage assessments and reconstruction plans will clarify the exact scope in the coming days/weeks. Let’s hope it’s back on its feet again soon. - BPJ
 

Fête Friday

Feeling grape-ful as the last vineyard in Paris celebrates the harvest.

 - ALL WEEKEND -

 LE VILLAGE EN FÊTE 

  

Annual Fête des Vendanges

 

Full Program 2026

 

Ends Sunday October 11