Foie gras terrine and eel teriyaki with sansho spices, done up to look like an exquisite cake. Photo © Darren Palmer When you enter this small restaurant, the first indication that it’s Japanese comes from the unmistakable accent of the … Read More
PARIS COUTURE WEEK Designer Jean Paul Gaultier withArielle Dombasle after presenting his haute couture collection in Paris. Click here for more couture photos. Photo: Elizabeth Pantaleo Favorite
Aux Lyonnais has a traditional bistro ambiance. The big news on the food front today (there are more important things happening in the world) is that El Bulli, five times rated the world’s best restaurant, will be closed in 2012 … Read More
Piggyback ride on Paris’s Rue Bonaparte during the Great Flood of 1910. © World’s Graphic Press / Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger-Viollet Why does the Great Flood of 1910 loom so large in the imagination of … Read More
Everything on the heaping seafood platter is fresh from the brine. If you have a craving for fresh seafood, L’Ecailler du Bistrot is a sure bet. Everything they serve comes straight from the French coast. Gwenaelle Cadoret, who runs the … Read More
Christian Boltanski’s Monumenta exhibition at the Grand Palais evokes the Holocaust and concentration camps. Photo: Didier Plowy/Monumenta/Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication It is always exciting to see how another artist will cope with what must be the … Read More
Prunier’s Art Deco dining room with black marble walls was designed by architect Louis Hippolyte Boileau and artist Léon Carrière. Casting around for words to describe the Prunier experience, I came up with “regal,” aristocratic” and “breeding,” in that order. … Read More
Arthur fights the giant of Mont Saint Michel in the Miroir Historial of Vincent de Beauvais. BnF, Département des Manuscrits Only a short time remains to see the exhibition “The Legend of King Arthur” at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France-François-Mitterrand, … Read More
“Soir Antique” (1908), by Alphone Osbert (1857-1939), one of many artists inspired by Isadora Duncan. © Petit-Palais/Roger-Viollet © ADAGP Having gone through an Isadora Duncan phase in my youth, during which I read all the biographies and saw Karel Reisz’s … Read More
Le Petit Curieux is a neighborhood restaurant with good products to eat in or take out. A curious thing has happened each of the three times I have eaten at the restaurant Le Petit Curieux: one dish is so delightful … Read More
