Fashion (fooding) week #1

   Looking back, I realized that this year's autumn Fashion Week might as well have been called "Fashion (fooding) week."

Since September I've been meaning to post some of the many dining and imbibing spots - among old (and new) friends - before, during, and just after Paris Fashion Week.

Above: Fouquet's, with its red awning dominating a corner on the Champs-Elysées, was a fitting, reliable, and très parisien point de rendez-vous

Inside: small plaques next to tables denote some of its star-studded habitués from past and present.

 

Outside: a shining walkway bears the names of recipients of French cinema's coveted César Award.

 

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Founded 1899 / listed a historical French monument 1990

Menu in collaboration with Chef Pierre Gagnaire

Brasserie Le Fouquet's
99 Avenue des Champs-Élysées 75008

  To Michael

 

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Tomorrow
Le Ventre de Paris: Ducasse revisited  

Mit Schlag?

When my parents lived in Vienna, a city that rivals Paris for elegant coffee houses and coffee, the good part of many an afternoon would be spent beneath chandeliers indulging in hot chocolate, Kaffee - usually followed by the question: "Mit Schlag?" ("With whipped cream?") - and decadent pastries.

Above: Café Viennois at PAUL's tea room in Saint-Germain-des-Prés on a cold November evening

Spot the reindeer

A favorite brunch stop has changed its awning dressing to a winter theme.

Maison Sauvage
5 rue de Buci 75006

- heat lamps on terrace - 

Light bulbs

Exiting a restaurant in the Marais district.

 

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Wine and steak

An easily overlooked small restaurant that's become our go-to neighborhood "steak house."

Above: wines of the day; perfect sweet potato fries; tender entrecôte

 Les Fines Lames

35 rue Lepic 75018

Mum's the word

Chrysanthemums have been putting in an appearance all over Paris.

Fashion flashback

A poster in the Latin Quarter.