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 [...]
The back table by the kitchen at Kasaphani, Paris’s premier Greek Cypriot restaurant, is reserved for family and friends. Tony, the oldest of the three brothers who operate the restaurant, was sitting there with another [...]
Lunch with I. at Sapido, an Italian restaurant between Palais Royal and the Opera Quarter. Came across it yesterday when looking for something new in the area. A small, refined yet accessible restaurant with non-descript [...]
What happens when two restaurant and travel writers meet to test a restaurant together? Do they eye each other warily over tall menus? Do they try to outdo each other with the quality of their [...]
