Everett Potter's Travel Report

By Alexander Lobrano For a variety of reasons, the French have been slow to come up with a good Gallic gastronomic retort to the creeping American concept of ‘fast casual-dining’… Continue reading »

  By Alexander Lobrano Since I’m unapologetically obsessed by good food, it almost never happens that I leave the house without knowing where I’m going to eat. Most of the… Continue reading »

By Alexander Lobrano Unfortunately, I was never able to book a place at The Hidden Kitchen, the running series of private dinner parties cooked and hosted by the hugely talented… Continue reading »

By Alexander Lobrano I love the 10th arrondissement, because it still has a lot of real Parisian atmosphere and hasn’t yet become infested with Starbucks and Subways. Instead, this until… Continue reading »

  By Alexander Lobrano Ever since it opened in 2009, Frenchie, chef Gregory Marchand’s excellent contemporary French bistro in the rue du Nil in the Sentier, Paris’s old garment district… Continue reading »

By Alexander Lobrano There are not a lot of ‘forgotten’ or overlooked neighborhoods in central Paris anymore, but the Quartier de l’Europe, that curious hive of streets which bear the… Continue reading »

By Alexander Lobrano One of the oddest features of Paris’s cityscape has long been the corridor of tawdry sex shows and shops that line the boulevards de Clichy and Rochechouart… Continue reading »

  It’s peony time in Paris, and we have a big vermillion bunch in the living room, and some ivory-colored ones in a smaller vase on the kitchen table. Everytime… Continue reading »

By Alexander Lobrano Though I don’t like its name, L’Hedoniste, because I find it smug (per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, hedonism is the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole… Continue reading »

The only things that would unfailingly draw me out of my warm lair on a wet night in Paris are the possibility of eating really good food and spending time… Continue reading »