Vous les voyez partout dans Paris, ces petites plaques en marbre ou en métal, expliquant qu’en l’an xx Mr Y ou Mme Z on vécu/travaillé/sont mort ici. Alors quand hier j’ai apercçu ce “cri” (I’m here) à coté d’une de ces plaques, je n’ai pas pu resister…
Notez au passage le velib sur le trottoir : attention, ça peut vous valoir une amende surtout quand il y a une piste cyclable juste de l’autre coté!
L’été semble être enfin là, pour changer des pique-niques en bord de Seine, je vous propose d’aller faire un tour au cinéma en plein air du parc de la Villette.
Depuis le 15 juillet et jusqu’au 17 aout, vous pouvez découvrir ou redécouvrir des films variés, de “Et dieu créa la femme” (6 aout) à “O’Brother” (2 aout) en passant par une nuit spéciale “Le parrain” (le 8 aout) … découvrez tous les films au programme.
Vous pouvez venir avec votre plaid ou louer un transat (5€) pour plus de confort.
Pour les habitués, attention, depuis cette année, la séance est payante (2€, exonération pour les chomeurs, RMistes, -12 ans; carte 10 entrées à 12€).
Pour plus d’informations, c’est ici!
Note pour les “vélibistes” : attention les stations velib à proximité du parc se remplissent très vite les soirs de séance!
If Metblogs is a city, hub.metblogs is the playground. We kept hearing from people that one of their favorite parts of Metblogs was meeting and interacting with readers and writers from other parts of the world, as well as getting requests for more ways that readers could be involved besides just posting comments. We thought about this for a while and decided that with a network like this, a giant community area where folks from all over the world could hang out, post photos and videos, talk with each other, form groups, play games, send messages, and do about a million other things was probably a pretty fun idea. The Hub is that.
If you have any tech ideas or suggestions join this group and speak up. See you on hub.metblogs!
De meilleures photos ici (par exemple). La précédente a l’avantage d’être de moi, mais ça se voit aussi sur la qualité :P Admirez quand même aussi les couleurs du coucher de soleil!
Depuis le 1er juillet, la Tour Eiffel s’habille de bleu à la nuit tombée. Apparement, un hommage à l’Europe qui durera les 2 premiers mois de la présidence française (ie juillet-août)…
Rien de bien neuf pour les Parisiens, voir cet ancien post ici même.
If you’ve ever shopped at Pierre Hermé, you know they not only supply delicious goodies, they will also wrap your purchase up with care in an assortment of pastel colour and white boxes, and place within similarly colour-schemed paper bags.
I know it’s rather frivolous, but it also means the full elegant package is now ready to be presented as gifts should you not be tempted into eating them up yourself. ;-)
They have just came up with 5 new gift boxes for macarons, four of which I’ve put together in the giant collage above. These are known as “J’aime Les Macarons”, “Les Incontournables de Paris”, “Joyeux Anniversaire” and “Je Pense à Toi”.
If you’re buying them online for home delivery, they’re available as boxes of 12 macarons (6 types of macarons per box) for €24 plus delivery charges. If you’re buying them online for boutique collection at 185 rue Vaugirard, they’re available as boxes of 16 for €34. Don’t ask me why the €2 price discrepancy. Processing charges? Option to choose macaron flavours?
C’est l’été! enfin on nous le promet pour cette semaine…
S’il vous fallait une preuve de plus, la voici : Paris plage est de retour!
D’ailleurs, il vous reste une heure pour courrir au grand pique-nique organisé pour le lancement de l’opération cette année.
J’avoue ne pas être fan de l’opération, pour moi c’est un peu tous les inconvénients de la plage (promiscuité, bruit etc) sans les avantages (vue sur l’océan, calme, baignades) .
Mais qui sait, peut-être me laisserais-je tenter par un peu de tai-chi ou de minigolf cette année !
et vous? allez-vous à Paris-plage?
I must be on a roll, noticing articles everywhere about dining in Paris. And this is solely based on sites that I do read from time to time. I wouldn’t want to imagine what an aggregrator will come back with had I ever bother try to set one up.
Either that, or all the major media KNOWS Paris is a wonderful holiday destination and are therefore pouring all the advices in. And this just came in, from Guardian, Top 10 Paris Bistrots on a Budget. Bistros? Bistrots? What’s the difference between the two words?
Anyway, I digress.
Looking at the list, there’s only a couple of them that I know of and have been to – Le Pre Verre (photographed above), Chez Gladines – and those places are among my favourites. This means I must go and try the others on the list, and sooner rather than later too. Afterall, if hordes of English tourists start descending on these bistrots, the value menu may soon becomes a thing in the past.
Of course, such crowd can also be “discouraged” (except for the determined) by the employment of French-only menus, impatient waiting staff, and safely tucked away from the main touristy areas. Some of the bistrots listed here are already on to these tactics – cool!
Alright, I was just teasing here. Good things are meant to be shared, and had I really want to be such a scrooge over it, I would have written this entry without giving you the link to the article nor mentioning the source. ;-)
I was quite amused by this article in the New York Times about the invasion of burgers in Paris. The raves, however, are not for the variation that you find in McD nor Quick (of course not, the blasphemy!) but rather some “Frenchified” burgers. Yup, even burgers are not exactly burgers in this city of gourmet food lovers. Got to be Paris chic, baby. ;-)
(Image by Ed Alcook for the NYT)
How? By doing what the French do best – redefining burgers with new taste (using herbs, fleur de sel etc), new texture (why not use T-bone steak?), or new ingredients altogether (foie gras burger anyone?).
As a good measure, the NYT also throws in a few recipes to try:
So will you be ordering a burger the next time you eat out at a restaurant? Or will you be cooking some at home this evening?
On a side note, I am not sure if I care for remarks such as “expatriate French chefs reinventing American classics in the United States made it safe for their countrymen to try it back home”. Now, come on!
That’s a question I was asked by american friends of friend visiting some weeks ago. Before that I never really thought about it. Indeed Paris has a lot of restaurant and you can eat french as well as indian, thaï, lebanese, breton, italian, scandinavian and so on.
So how can one make a decision ?
It can depend on prices, place you are, things you want to eat… but even once you know what you want to eat and for what price, you want it to be good. And believe me, there are restaurant in Paris you don’t want to try…
The better way is of course to have friend experimenting and reporting to you. Like a guy I know who is from Corea and told me where to eat the best bimbimbap next to work. Or a co-worker who invite you to his favourite restaurant..
I also make my own experimentations, trying the new pizzeria that opened next to home (good but not the best I know), or testing restaurant from comments I read on the web or magazines.
So if you’re looking for a restaurant, and don’t know where to go, you can check this site (my prefered one) or this one or this one. You can also find other ideas in blogs like the ones Lil suggested last week.
And what about you? How do you choose ? What are your favourite restaurants?
