Here's a link to The Paris Time Capsule Apartment ...
Friday, July 5, 2013
My favorites spots in Paris
If you're headed to Paris, these are my favorite places:
This cafe in the 7th, Laiterie Sainte Clotilde, has fresh soups, good fish, and "farm-fresh" food at reasonable prices. The staff is friendly and seats at the counter welcome solo diners -- including one with a reading light and a stack of magazines. This neighborhood place is on rue de Bellechasse which runs to the west and south of museé de Orsay (and is just next door to a lovely studio available for rent).
If I'm around Notre Dame, I head away from the tourists to eat on a patio. Often I've gone there late at night and the same waiter hesitates about making me an omlette but he always does it:
La Brasserie de l'Isle Saint-Louis
55, quai de Bourbon
75004 Paris
Then down the street is best ice cream: Berthillon Glacier
The café you will always find me at since I drop by ever day when I'm in Paris:
Cafe de Flore (hot cocoa, cheese, champagne, people watching, and my favorite cute waiter -- if he's there, you'll know who I'm referring to!)
This crepe place is up by the Pompidou Center:
109, Rue Vieille du Temple
it's a bit of a hike, but the shops are interesting along the way and the crepes are fabulous and inexpensive. busy busy place. has cider
for a girls' lunch (friend, mother, daughter, niece) -- it's in couture land and flashy and pricey but the most memorable place for girls' lunch:
L'Avenue
41, Avenue Montaigne
Paris 75008
0140701491 (phone)
Le Bon Marche
24, Rue de Sevres
department store with great food court -- highly recommend buying your shopping bag (le sac there) as a souvenir
Big secrets about Paris:
Monoprix - it's Pari's Target and has everything you need for a good price - and the refrigerated food is good
Picard's - this is Parisian women's secret - frozen food you would have made if you had time.
Once you see how small Parisian kitchen's are, you will buy cooked food from the farmer's market and everything else from Picard (especially the soups)
Best farmer's market:
wed and saturday
if the irish guy is selling goat cheese, it's the best
best macaroons:
Laduree - make sure to get the pretty boxes
(you can also eat soups, salads, omlettes) I will confess to eating omlettes all the time in Paris -- inexpensive fresh and they do a good job!
chocolate:
La Maison du Chocolat - near George V and Le Bon Marche and especially easy at the Caroussel du Louvre
http://www.carrouseldulouvre.com/W/do/centre/accueil - love it for Agatha's jewelry, the food court, the museum pass, La Maison du Chocolat, and the easiest way to enter Louvre with a pass
La Maison du chocolat has the best chocolate boxes, the best truffles and you won't find better eclairs anywhere. It's all pricey but I save $$ by not eating chocolate anywhere else
Coutume Café is the best place for coffee in Paris and it's in the 7th
one of the owners in Australian who is incredibly nice and someone there always speaks English
here's a link to the blog post I did on Coutume:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)