February 11, 2013 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
The trendy new place to dine in Paris these days — apart from 6 Paul Bert — is Richer. It has a big advantage over the aforementioned 6 and its own mother ship across the street, L’Office: it is open on … Read More
January 22, 2013 | By Paris Update | Restaurants
La Bonne Cécile: cozy and comforting. We were greeted at La Bonne Cécile, a new restaurant in Paris’s third arrondissement, by a pug named Gaspard and two smiling humans, one of whom warned us that Gaspard was having a little … Read More
January 16, 2013 | By Paris Update | Restaurants
A pleasing urban buzz animates Pan, a trendy but unpretentious Paris restaurant where you get the feeling that you are in the right place at the right time. Even the neighborhood, which until recently had nothing special to recommend it, … Read More
January 9, 2013 | By Paris Update | Restaurants
The conceit at Braisenville, a Paris restaurant that has been open for over a year now, is that everything is cooked over coals. While this might not sound like a recommendation in itself, the level of creativity, craft and quality … Read More
December 18, 2012 | By Paris Update | Restaurants
What do you look for in a Paris restaurant on a cold, stormy winter’s evening? A warm, cozy place serving hearty, well-sourced French food of good quality served by helpful, friendly staff, of course. Not so easy to find these … Read More
December 11, 2012 | By Paris Update | Restaurants
Pascade is a new Paris restaurant offering something a bit different. Opened in November by Michelin-two-star chef Alexandre Bourdas of Restaurant SaQuaNa in Honfleur, it presents everything in a sort of dish-shaped crêpe, called a pascade, that is traditionally served … Read More
November 21, 2012 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
I discovered the other day how difficult it is to find a good restaurant open for lunch on Saturday in Paris. After calling several places I had been wanting to test, I tried the Bistrot Populaire, which has been on … Read More
November 14, 2012 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
As my friend Bonnie, who lives in Montmartre, will tell you, precious few of the many, many restaurants on the butte are praiseworthy, so I was delighted to discover that a new bistro called Antoine de Montmartre had opened in … Read More
November 6, 2012 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
Au Rendez-vous des Camionneurs looks like anything but a truck stop, especially now that its new owners have spiffed up its interior with orange tables and turquoise banquettes and the menu with sophisticated dishes. It’s especially hard to imagine an … Read More
October 30, 2012 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
Located near the no-man’s-land created by the train tracks running out of the Gare Saint Lazare, Neva Cuisine is something of an anomaly in the neighborhood. With its elegantly simple modern furnishings, high ceilings and 19th-century-style glass-ball chandeliers, it looks … Read More