Le Bonaparte

Waiting for Paris' cafés to re-open....

Above: a favorite point de rendez-vous when I lived in Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Café Le Bonaparte 

42 rue Bonaparte 75006

Fleurs du bien

If you feel, as I do, that flowers are an achat de première nécessité (as per the famous attestation as a legitimate reason to be outside), they can be found in local supermarkets.

Above: flower shop on Place de Fürstenberg before the lockdown

Soups du jour

Soothing homemade soups and smooth veloutés ease le confinement.

Above: immune-boosting carrot ginger soup

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Recipes in April newsletter

Optimist

 

A portrait artist takes his chances.

Evening apéros

Well before the lockdown, we'd made it a tradition to have a pre-dinner apéritif almost every evening, whether chez nous, chez friends, on a café terrace in nice weather or at a favorite wine bar, wherever we are. And the drink needn't be alcohol - it could be a fruit juice, iced tea or sparkling water, with accompaniments of anything from peanuts, chips, pretzels or olives to cheeses, sausages or more elaborate canapés. - BPJ

Above: dried mango, almonds, whole wheat grissini, two kinds of cheeses

Below: yesterday's gin tonics, cheeses, spicy cashews, cured sausage w/fennel, dark German bread

 

Font art

Baptismal font inside Église Saint-Jean de Montmartre, an art nouveau church on Place des Abbesses.

Café du coin

Another frequented corner café in Montmartre, closed until further notice.