Dining Out and About
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Friday, February 4th, 2011One of the (many) nice things about living in Paris is the splash of North African culture that brightens the city’s bland Frenchness. You can sip mint tea at La Grande Mosquée, have your dry skin scrubbed away at a hammam, or — my favorite — sink into sharp flavors: vibrant spices, or tangy preserved lemons. I’ve yet [...]
Adventures in bouillabaisse (and more!)
Thursday, December 9th, 2010Port cities are the best, aren’t they? A salty melange of cultures, a proximity to the sea, vigor, diversity, a gritty crackle in the air… I felt it in Marseille, where a thousand years of seafaring has given way to a vibrant food scene that mixes the cuisines of the Mediterranean — among them, North [...]
Vienna
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Even the name is lovely, isn’t it? Vienna. It conjures up the Old World, elegant buildings, horse-drawn carriages, and afternoons filled with coffee and strudel. At least, that’s what I was hoping to find. It turns out, I also discovered schnitzel, sausages, sandwiches and — it being the season –Christkindlmarkts around almost every corner. In [...]
Recent restaurants
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010Salut, mes amis! First of all, I wanted to thank you all for your kind support of last night’s reading at Shakespeare and Co. I felt honored to speak to a packed house (it was the free wine, wasn’t it?) and I loved seeing so many friends, old and new. I could also feel the [...]
Restaurants I have loved (or liked)
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Salut, mes amis! Despite a recent spate of homecooking and baking (muffins, tart, and cake in the past three weeks — are hens sprouting teeth?!), I have been fulfilling my responbilities as your faithful Paris blogger. Here’s a little roundup of restaurant discoveries to prove it. Where: Spring (6 rue Bailleul, 1er) With: Adventurous gastronomes: Anna, Serge [...]
Michel Bras, marvelous
Friday, September 10th, 2010In the rough and ready region of Aveyron, a remote area of south-central France, stands a modern glass house with clean lines and a sweeping view of the bucolic landscape. It’s Michel Bras, the eponymous three-star Michelin restaurant, owned by the man that Food & Wine dubbed “arguably France’s most revered chef.” On a recent late summer [...]
Provence food notes
Friday, August 27th, 2010A good vacation is nothing without good food, and I certainly had my fair share in Provence this summer. Here’s a little round-up of some of the things I ate… La Gare de Bonnieux (Bonnieux, tel: 04 90 75 82 00) This is Bonnieux’s former train station, now converted to a restaurant, and it’s one of those [...]
Recent restaurant redux
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010I know I’ve been a little remiss on the restaurant posts recently, but sometimes when I’m eating out, I just want to stuff my maw instead of taking notes and photos. But then, browsing a few of my favorite France blogs, I had an epiphany: I can do a short and punchy restaurant roundup instead [...]
Dining Out and About (Paris): Afternoon snack
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Goûter is usually for kids, served up after school, the type of snack that legitimizes chocolate bars stuffed into a fresh baguette.But a mid-afternoon snack is also a good idea for grown-ups, especially when you’re surrounded by the world’s most delicious pâtisserie. So many toothsome delicacies, so little time. Goûter is just another opportunity to [...]
Dining Out and About (Paris): More Chinese!
Monday, April 19th, 2010After writing a novel about Chinese food, nothing makes me happier than when people tell me: “I read your book and it made me hungry.” And if this conversation takes place in Paris, there’s always a follow-up question: “Can you recommend a good Chinese restaurant here?” As I’ve lamented before, Chinese food in the City [...]
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