Fancy dishes but little atmosphere and ill-fitting, Trekkie-like waiters’ uniforms. Do you look at your waiter at a restaurant? Do you check out how he or she is dressed? Does it matter? My answers to the first two questions would … Read More
Sarah Greene, Anita Reeves and Amelia Crowley in Elaine Murphy’s “Little Gem,” one of the plays being featured in the Irish Cultural Center’s Theater Showcase. Anyone who sees the way the character Mingey stands right at the opening of the … Read More
Detail of “The Haywain” (“The Temptation of Saint Anthony), after Hieronymus Bosch. © Patrimonio National, Madrid What a shame that the Galerie des Gobelins doesn’t allow visitors to borrow some of the tapestries on show in its latest exhibition: “Treasures … Read More
A detail of Le 1er’s wild comic-book-style mural. You don’t usually expect to be taken aback by a restaurant, but Le 1er managed just that. We were flying blind after a trip to a vernissage (no drink) and a hugger-mugger … Read More
“C’est la fin des haricots” means “It’s a catastrophe, a disaster.” When supplies started to run low in 19th-century boarding schools, the kids had to eat the only thing left: beans. When there were no more beans, starvation loomed, hence … Read More
Delacroix’s 1838 portrait of Chopin. © Roger Viollet What better place for an exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Chopin than the Musée de la Vie Romantique? Not only … Favorite
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PLAYS The Irish Cultural Centre in Paris is putting on an ambitious theater program in the coming months, with four plays in English being performed for free in the lovely setting of a former convent in the fifth arrondissement. … Read More
Stephen Dillane as Prospero on the left and Christian Camargo as Ariel in the center with the rest of the cast. Photo: Joan Marcus, 2010 Sam Mendes’s production of The Tempest is to Parisian theater what Avatar was to cinema … Read More
Old-timey comfort and good, fresh food. Pros: Fresh vegetables, well-chosen wines, pleasant atmosphere.Cons: None to speak of. Attentive readers will have noticed a second arrondissement bias in my recent reviews, and this one is no exception: I’ve been checking out … Read More
ADAM’S APPLE Theater troupe Compagnie du Poney will stage the tragicomedy La Pomme d’Adam, written and directed by Victor Dekyvere, at the Théâtre La Reine Blanche (2 bis, Passage Ruelle, 75018 Paris; tel.: 01 40 05 06 96) on April … Read More
