Liégeois

Thought to originate in next-door Belgium, ice-cream and chantilly-rich café liégeois is a specialty at many local cafés.

 

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This decadent dessert isn't actually from Liège, historic city in eastern Belgium. Originally, it was called café viennois (Viennese coffee) in Paris. During World War I, after Liège heroically resisted the German invasion, the French renamed it "café liégeois" in tribute. The name stuck, but in fact the name is French in origin. - BPJ

L'Hôtel de Ville

A view of Paris' main town hall and fountains.

For every cheese

... there is a wine. 

 

Above: small plates of AOC / AOP cheeses are meticulously paired w/quality wines at a tiny wine bar behind the Montmartre cemetery

Below: selection of charcuteries from France and Spain

  
What we had:

- Cheese: aged cheddar, honey onion chutney, toasted pine nuts

Wine: Thokozani Shiraz Mourvédre Viognier 2018 - shown 

- Cheese: brébis from the Aveyron, fresh peach, chives, poppy seeds

Wine: Catherine & Pierre Breton Epaulé Jeté Vouvray blanc AOC

- Cheese: Gorgonzola DOP, crushed hazelnuts, dried apricots

Wine: Coteaux du Layon Les Terriades Prestige

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Le Discret

3 rue Eugène Carrière 75018

Dough bowls

These basket bowls at a boulangerie will soon be filled with fresh dough that will be set aside to rise.

Waiting for fall

Enjoying last days of summer on a café terrace in the Marais district.

A spot of breakfast

One of my favorite breakfast meeting spots in Paris.

Above: side table laden with fresh viennoiseries, rolls, butter, assorted preserves

Angelina
226 rue de Rivoli 75001

Art. On art

When art does a satiric take on itself.

 

Tiggy Ticehurst

Paris - New York