Crêpes are always a good idea

 

Buttery crêpes de froment - topped with fresh rhubarb compote, salted butter caramel and house vanilla ice cream and melted dark chocolate - taste better accompanied by crisp apple cider from Brittany.

Breizh Café
1 rue de l'Odéon 75006

Pop op

A painting by brilliant French artist Patrick Rubinstein: stand in front of Mick Jagger's portrait face on, then move to one side and lo behold it becomes the Mick Jagger iconic mouth.

Four please

What better treat for holiday visitors than a visit to Angelina for its infamous African hot chocolate, with crème chantilly on the side.

Angelina

226 rue de Rivoli 75001

Tea and garden

View from café looking onto the resplendent interior courtyard of the Petit Palais art museum.

Grand space

I'm often asked what kinds of exhibitions are shown in the Grand Palais' massive space.
This installation - Anish Kapoor's "Monumenta" - is an example, the largest I've seen there yet.


For Ava

Tied in a knot

Escalators inside Le Bon Marché (Rive Gauche) luxury department store.

Top o' the butte

Most days this lady sings away in front of a café on Place du Tertre.