The Bon Vivant Blog

After a dinner at Jadis, we went for a stroll down avenue Champs-Élysées and A’s neverending love for all things sweet took us to back to Ladurée for some late-night macarons. Designed by Roxane Rodriguez, the Ladurée Bar is a very cool place to stop-in late night for a drink and some dessert. Basking in [...]

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After a hot stroll through the Tuileries and a poke into 24, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré to ogle some scarves, we were strolling down the street next door and saw the sign – D, with her amazing memory for all things food recognized the name from Le Guide des Gourmandes and in we went.

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The Ritz Paris is perhaps the world’s most famous hotel – and as every hotel has at least one bar where the inhabitants can go and drown their sorrows, the Ritz is no exception. And when you’re the most famous hotel in the world, this means that you have the most famous hotel bar in [...]

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Just a quick note. We were hungry, on the Champs Élysées, and beer and mussels seemed like a good idea at the time. Léon de Bruxelles is a chain, with multiple locations throughout France. As I walked in, I noticed that the proportion of English-speaking people in the restaurant far outweighed the French-speakers, which in [...]

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This was the last of our visits to one of the prix-fixe restaurants in the NY times. Jadis is busy and reservations are highly recommended although somehow our reservation for 5 people at 7:45 pm somehow was changed to a reservation for 6 people at 7:30pm so calling the day before the reservation might be [...]

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Continuing our tour (here and here) of prix-fixe restaurants mentioned in the New York Times, we decided to go to L’Agrume. Located in the 5th arrondisement, L’Agrume is a small, intimate restaurant – but this is in no way a complaint – it is not overly loud; it does not feel crowded; it is not [...]

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For ages now we’ve been going on about how great the macarons are at Pierre Hermé while we haven’t been giving the other challenger, Ladurée even a chance. This is like seeing Joe Frazier go at a heavy bag and saying that he’s the best boxer in the world. It’s like seeing a Picasso and [...]

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Another night in Paris, another prix-fixe dinner. This time, at La Gazzetta, a charming restaurant in the 12th, again with dining pros B and A. We arrive a bit early, are welcomed to our seats and offered cocktails, a nice change compared to the previous dinner at Le Chateaubriand. I start with a Campari and [...]

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Yes, I know that we’ve been here before, and written about it before. But it’s so good, that it needs writing about again. We were on our way to the very beautiful Musée de l’Orangerie this afternoon when we took a detour and took the M12 Metro line all the way to the Pasteur stop [...]

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During her extensive research prior to the trip, D found a list of popular prix-fixe restaurants in Paris that had very good food. Le Chateaubriand was our first outing. Inside, Le Chateaubriand looks like it could have come out of 1945. Sparse walls, chalk boards with wine prices, that yellowed paint that looks like it’s [...]

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