French cut

 

A tiny new Montmartre restaurant serves up tartares sur mesure: choose from knife (not machine) cut fresh beef, tuna, salmon, more, then have it dressed with a sauce of your choice.

Above: salmon tartare with a truffled aioli, chorizo, capres, pickles, tobasco and parsley sauce; fries cooked in duck fat; crunchy deep-fried Saint-Marcellin to start and a panna cotta lime zest dream dessert to finish. Wine: crisp Chardonnay

Alix et Mika

37 rue Lamarck 75018

Joie de ville

Niki de Saint Phalle sculptures brighten up the day.
 

Short life span

These latest blossoms on Place Marcel Aymé will be gone in less than 48 hours.
In the distance, sculpture of "The Man Who Walked Through Walls."
 

Leafy lunch

Entrance to Le Moulin de la Galette with its garden restaurant where Renoir painted his celebrated Bal du Moulin de la Galette.
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83 rue Lepic 75018

April roses

Inside, wooden crates of rose petals for sale for the Sunday lunch table.

Only in Paris

A designer bag used to tote groceries.

Russian dolls

A window in a Left Bank shop displays the contents of an enormous traditional Matryoshka doll.