In Paris, as you probably already know, if you want to eat at a good restaurant, you can’t expect to reserve at the last minute or just pop in unreserved. A case in point: on Wednesday of last week, I … Read More
Selva is a restaurant in Paris’s fifth arrondissement offering South American-inspired cuisine “enhanced by French technique.” The decor attempts to immerse you somewhere in the Amazon jungle with green plants and South American fabric designs. We ate in the rather … Read More
Readers, I may have found the perfect lunch spot for you. Picture a restaurant with not only a bright, clean, attractive interior but also a beautiful terrace in a quiet garden courtyard, where you can lunch on tasty, super-fresh, reasonably … Read More
The aptly named Café Les Deux Gares is located smack between the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l’Est (within walking distance of each other) at the top of a handsome double staircase. This used to be an ordinary … Read More
I recently dined with a friend at the Korean restaurant Bistro Mee, prompted by the good press it has been receiving lately. I had high hopes that it would be as original as the restaurant Jong-no Samgyetang, a hole-in-the-wall place … Read More
Dinner at the Bistrot des Tournelles was the perfect kickoff to the Paris rentrée, the back-to-school and back-to-work season. A welcome throwback to earlier times, the smallish restaurant opened only a couple of months ago near Bastille and is already … Read More
I had a vision for the restaurant that would be the subject of Paris Update’s last review of the summer season. It might be more expensive than the places we normally cover here, but we would be seated in a … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED The new owner of L’Envie du Jour (for the last year and a half) confessed to us that they now change the menu every week instead of every day, as the restaurant’s name would seem … Read More
Wadja is a feel-good bistro par excellence. I have been going to this small restaurant – whose unusual name can apparently be traced back to the misspelled name of a Polish couple who once owned it – on and off … Read More
“Mâche” means “lamb’s lettuce,” and the verb “mâcher” means “to chew.” We didn’t see any of the former when we ate at the restaurant Mâche in Paris’s 10th arrondissement the other night, but we did plenty of the latter, with … Read More
