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Paris is Always a Good Idea
Words & photographs by Deborah Loeb Bohren If not a frequent visitor to Paris, I am most definitely a repeat visitor. I made my first trip there in the mid-‘80s for $99 on People Express (remember them?). Since then, I have gone for as little as four days and as long
Letter from Paris: Liquide
By Alexander Lobrano It wasn’t until I went to Liquide, chef Matthias Marc’s new “modern tavern” cum bistro in Les Halles in Paris the other day for lunch that I realized just how much I had been missing restaurants since they shut down in France last October. What I’d been
Letter from Paris: A L’Epi d’Or, An Heirloom Bistro’s Brilliant Revival
By Alexander Lobrano A L’Epi d’Or, a solid old neighbourhood bistro that opened on the edge of Les Halles in 1880, has mercifully been spared the ignominious fate of too many traditional Paris bistros in an ever gentrifying city: becoming a clothing store. Sepia-tinted by decades of Gauloises and Gitanes,
Letter from Paris: Le P’tit Canon
By Alexander Lobrano Le P’tit Canon is a perfect and very happy example of a good uncomplicated Parisian neighborhood bistro. It’s a lively, friendly, well-run place with a pretty Belle Epoque style dining room with a big bar up front where you can stop by on your own for a
Letter from Paris: Le Flaubert
By Alexander Lobrano A really excellent recent meal at Le Flaubert, which was originally called Le Bistrot d’a Cote when two-star Michelin chef Michel Rostang first opened it thirty years ago, got me to thinking about the impact of the internet on restaurant writing. To wit, the only reason I had
