Corinne LaBalme discovers NoLita, a ritzy ristorante parked next to the vintage Lancias in the Fiat Group’s “Motor Village” on the Champs-Elysées. If a Maserati goes a lot faster than a mere car, the menu at NoLita goes a lot farther than simple carbonara.
It’s lucky that sturgeon don’t put much stock in astrology. All the roe that would normally be reading “Aries” and “Taurus” fish-scopes for the rest of their Piscean lives are likely to be gobbled up [...]
What is it about Paris cabarets and Russian émigrés that brings out everyone’s inner gypsy? It’s got to be more than borscht, no? Is it Garbo in Ninotchka? Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia? Corinne LaBalme says “привет” (we hope that means “hello”) to IKRA, the newest Cossack café in town.
This is not a restaurant review of Oth Sombath, a French-Thai restaurant on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris’s 8th arrondissement where I went as a favor to a French expert in gastronomy, unless he was doing me the favor of inviting me.
On July 4th I went to Cupcake Camp in a Paris bistro. The event was by proud Americans who seemed to have fogotten that July 4th was also the Fourth of July.
The west central African nation of Cameroon may have lost early in World Cup competition in South Africa this summer but the spirit and style of Massaï Mara, a worthy Cameroonian restaurant in Paris’s 19th [...]
For urban residents and travelers, a trip from the big city into the suburbs is often disorienting. The mere suggestion of going into the suburbs for dinner can sounds like an invitation to go on [...]
I know food bloggers are supposed to be into food, but do they really have to tell us everything they eat? They remind me of 12-year-old girls with half-chewed food in their mouth, sticking their tongues out to get attention. Not very appetizing.
The Belleville Quarter of Pars is home to dozens of Asian restaurants. Think they’re all of equal quality? Think again. In the search for some of the best authentic Southeast Asian cuisine I asked Christian [...]
