Having had my plan to lunch at Aux Verres de Contact thwarted last week by a power cut that closed the restaurant, I was eager to try it, so I called the next day to make a reservation. I was … Read More
The food and decor are simple and pleasing. The ninth arrondissement is turning into a hotbed of good little neighborhood restaurants. We have already reviewed a number of them here (including Le Pantruche, Les Saisons, L’Office and Le Garde Temps), … Read More
The party began at the Paris restaurant Jour de Fête even before we arrived. When I called to say my friend and I were running a bit late for our 9pm reservation the other night, the woman who answered the … Read More
Vegetarians, avert your eyes now. This review is about restaurants where meat meets carnivore, to the latter’s great delight… While Pierrot and the American Bistrot vary greatly in style, the substance is the same: their basic stock in trade is … Read More
First there was Velly, a neighborhood bistro in Paris’s ninth arrondissement that was good enough to attract gourmets from all over the city. When Velly’s well-liked owner sold, it became Villa Victoria, which, since the chef stayed on, continued to … Read More
Note: Chef Victor Magsaysay has moved to the restaurant Ito, but his former assistant carries on in the same vein at Sakebar. Dec. 4, 2013 Paris’s hottest new restaurant (according to some of my informants) turns out not to be … Read More
Given comparable levels of food quality and cooking skill and slightly off-the-beaten-track locations, what makes one bistro a popular success while another has a feeling of doom hanging about it? Last week, I ate in two bistros on successive nights. … Read More
Eat Intuition might be dubbed Women’s Intuition, and I’d like to think it’s a small dose of the latter that propelled me toward this culinary darling of two clearly instinctive women. Meet Isa (Isabella Losada De Armas), the chef, a … Read More
Sometimes you’re just not in the mood for a long, drawn-out sit-down meal in a restaurant. One of my favorite places to eat in Paris is L’Avant Comptoir, the tiny sliver of an annex to star chef Yves Camdeborde’s restaurant … Read More
Guess what? I have finally made it to the VIP circle. Or at least that’s what Christophe, the co-owner of Marie et Louise, a small bistro near the Canal Saint Martin, told me when I called to change my dinner … Read More
