Today’s challenge as part of the Edible Advent Calendar: Can you name this treat? Leave your answer (product/location) in the comments section below. The reader who has accumulated the most correct responses by December 24 will receive an edible Christmas present from me. I’ll keep your guesses hidden until the answer is revealed tomorrow on Budget Travel, [...]
Paris is expensive – especially for those converting dollars to pay for their three course restaurant meals – but it’s also filled with small wonders of deliciousness that cost hardly anything at all. To share this bounty and celebrate the season, I’ve created an Edible Advent Calendar. As with the paper version that I loved [...]
As I was walking away from Thoumieux, I said this to my friend: “It was like talking to an incredibly good looking guy who’s only a little bit annoying. You’re sort of grateful that he wasn’t more of an asshole.” Said friend (John Talbott) wrote a more prompt and eloquent review of our meal here. [...]
I’ll admit it: I had low expectations for Passage 53. This newish restaurant inside the city’s oldest covered passageway has drawn very mixed reviews. A number of eaters who I trust have been disappointed here. Other palates had been pleased, but their measured compliments never moved me to pick up the phone. Then my boyfriend, [...]
The men and woman in blue (the team comprised of Daniel, Mary-Aude, Josh, Sylvain and Fabrice) were mightily outnumbered last night as their new épicerie was stormed by a mob of gourmands with a nose for free wine and snacks. For the lucky/sturdy souls who managed to battle through the bloggers, there were winemakers (Catherine [...]
“You have to go,” said my very pregnant friend. “I’ve been twice in one week.” “For sushi?” I replied, with a skeptical eye directed down at her belly. I’d been hearing a lot about Rice & Fish in recent months, but it wasn’t until my pal admitted to putting her fetus in danger that I [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the opening of Table 28 before I had actually been. That was the backstory. This is the rotisstory. Sunday night I stepped in out of the rain and said hello to my dinner. “Robert,” having just descended from the spit, was resting quietly on the counter. The suckling [...]
Last night marked my fourth visit to l’Avant Comptoir in just over a week. This new wine bar is nowhere near my apartment, so why am I returning again and again? It’s the ham. To be precise, it’s the deep-fried ham croquettes. Made with jambon Ibaïona d’Eric Ospital, these little nuggets are like eating, as [...]
No sooner had I posted my list of Top 5 Free Events in November, than I saw this from Secrets of Paris: Next Thursday (November 12), some of the city’s sweetest men will be presenting their chocolate creations and signing books at Galeries Lafayette. From 5-9pm, you’ll be able to steal samples from Sadaharu Aoki, [...]
When I first moved to Paris, someone told me that French women (in addition to not getting fat) don’t pee. I had also read a book that counseled never to ask for the bathroom in somebody’s home. Neither of these turned out to be entirely accurate. But it is true that the French are more [...]
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