Brunch, now a common offering in cafés and eateries throughout Paris, has made a nice home for itself in three distinct establishments on the western side of the hill of Montmartre: the café Le Cafe Qui Parle, the bakery Coquelicot and the restaurant Le Petit Parisien.

Skytrees: Visions of time and place found by looking up through trees at an angle of more than 45 degrees. Here are some prime examples of skytrees in Paris and a recommendable restaurant entered at nightfall in Montmartre.

Montmartre celebrated its annual Grape Harvest Festival (Fête des Vendanges) in early October with a series of joyful community events including lectures, concerts, tasting events, a parade, and more in a local celebration of an [...]

Over the past ten years Parisians and visitors alike have gotten into dinnertime picnicking as a way of enjoying the nonchalant beauty of Paris in spring and summer. What had previously been isolated Seine-side clusters [...]

It’s too much to expect Paris to have great pizza, too, yet decent single-serving, thin-crust pizza can be found in many residential neighborhoods in Paris. As with finding good couscous, the best approach is to [...]

While Nice is holding its Carnival the pretty Riviera town of Menton, on the other side of Monaco, is holding its Lemon Festival. I went to the Citron festivities on Friday night but I’ll write about that later this week because I want now to tell about a rather gorgeous Sunday I passed in Nice’s Carnival epicenter.

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 [...]

There are wine bars of atmosphere where you go to be a part of a crowd and there are wine bars of knowledge where you go to do some tasting in good company. Les Fines [...]