Readers Recommend Baci
BEST MEAL IN FIVE YEARS We just had the best meal we have had in Paris in the last five years in a restaurant called Café Baci (36, rue de Turenne 75003; tel.: 01 42 71 36 70) in the … Read More
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Best Baguette
BEST BAGUETTE Djibril Bodian, who works at Le Grenier à Pain Abbesses (38, rue des Abbesses, 75018 Paris; tel.: 01 42 23 85 36), has been honored a the maker of the best baguette in Paris. The 33-year-old baker, who … Read More
Readers Recommend: Le Bal Bullier
BEST BREAKFAST My favorite place for a coffee or, if I can linger, breakfast, is Le Bal Bullier (22 Avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris; tel.: 01 43 21 06 06). Best quality/price deal: an excellent baguette, fabulous confiture de cerise, … Read More
Paris Cookbook Fair
PARIS COOKBOOK FAIR Meet famous chefs and winemakers this weekend at the Paris Cookbook Fair, Feb. 12-15 at Centquatre (104, rue d’Aubervilliers or 5 rue Curial, 75019 Paris). Favorite
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LE FAST FOOD GAINING GROUND All is not well in the French food-service industry, A recent study by the research group NPD showed that the cut in value-added tax in restaurants last July from 19.5 percent to 5.5 percent has … Read More
Seine Dining Scene
SEINE DINING SCENEParisians always scoff at the dinner boats plying the Seine because the prices are high and the quality of the food supposedly not up to snuff. A new entrant on the Seine scene, Paris en Scène, may change … Read More
Cheaper Eats?
CHEAPER EATS? It’s official: value-added tax for restaurant meals in France will drop from 19.6 percent to 5.5 percent on July 1. The new rate does not apply to alcoholic beverages. It remains to be seen whether restaurant owners, whose … Read More
So Where Did They Eat?
SO WHERE DID THEY EAT?Just in case you were wondering, Barack and Michelle Obama ate at the “traditional” bistro La Fontaine de Mars in Paris’s 7th arrondissement last week. A private room for 40 people had been booked, but only … Read More
In the Pink
IN THE PINKAfter a lot of foot-dragging, on June 8, the European Union abandoned plans to issue a regulation that would have allowed the production of rosé wine by coloring white wine with red. There had been, shall we say, … Read More
All They Think about Is Food
ALL THEY THINK ABOUT IS FOODA recent report indicated that the French eat and sleep for longer than anyone else in Europe. And wouldn’t you just believe it, even those havens of French elitism, the Grandes Ecoles, have their own … Read More