November 4, 2015 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive, Restaurants
The first thing I saw when I arrived at the new fish restaurant Salt was a young man stacking up knobby baguettes on the counter of the open kitchen. “Do you make your own baguettes?” I asked him in French. He didn’t understand and asked me if I spoke English. That was a bit of a surprise in a Parisian restaurant. He turned out to be the chef, Daniel Morgan, originally from Sheffield, England, who once worked at the renowned Noma in Copenhagen. And yes, he does make his own baguettes, twice a day. And they are delicious, crispy on the outside and soft inside, with plenty of flavor.
November 3, 2015 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive
Some artists are so well known that it seems almost pointless to do yet another straight-forward exhibition of their work. But those big names bring in the bucks, so curators scrape around for new exhibition angles. For Picasso, the Grand … Read More
October 28, 2015 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive
Overheard at the exhibition “Picasso Mania” at the Grand Palais: American man to American woman as he points to an erotic etching: “Do you recognize this?” Woman (looking bored): “No.” Man: “It’s on your breakfast plate every morning.” The extent … Read More
October 21, 2015 | By Heidi Ellison | Film
Fatima, directed by Philippe Faucon, is a film that speaks softly as it opens a door on a world rarely seen on the screen: that of two generations of a family of Algerian immigrants in France. Fatima (Soria Zeroual) lives … Read More
October 21, 2015 | By Marianna Hunt | Archive
The work of Russian-born artist Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) displays an unusually diverse range of influences: brutal Russian modernism, dramatic Cubist angularity, African tribal art and classical Greek sculpture. After emigrating to France in 1910, Zadkine spent the years of World … Read More
October 14, 2015 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
The owners of the restaurant Neva are staking out their gourmet territory in a previously neglected neighborhood in northern Paris right next to the Martin Luther King Park. They have had the good grace to name their new restaurant Coretta, after the civil rights hero’s wife.
October 12, 2015 | By Paris Update | What's New Eat & Drink
Mon Voisine Cuisine, the “kitchen Uber,” is a new Web-based service with an original idea: order home-cooked food from menus offered by one of your neighbors on the site, pay online and pop over to the cook’s place to pick … Read More
October 7, 2015 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
When I heard that Daniel Rose, chef/owner of Spring, had opened a new, lower-priced bistro, La Bourse et la Vie, in Paris, I couldn’t wait to try it, but despaired of being able to get a reservation at any time in the near future, given the great difficulties I have had in the past booking a table at Spring.
September 28, 2015 | By Mary Shaffer | Restaurants
A friend from India had described the fare at MG Road as “Indian food served French bistro style,” which sounded like a tempting option. A small group of my friends and I were very much looking forward to dining there, but unfortunately, our sense of disappointment was commensurate with our bright expectations.
September 26, 2015 | By Nick Hammond | Film
Jacques Audiard is deservedly the most internationally respected and fêted French director around at the moment. Every one of his films manages at the same time to be powerfully memorable, horrifically violent and yet unexpectedly lyrical, whether it be through … Read More
