I Prefer Paris

Aux Ducs de Gascogne Foie Gras Shop

I live on the rue St. Antoine and I am spoiled with an incredible selection of food shops.Within a three block radius there are three supermarkets, two cheese shops, four boulangeries, three wine shops, two chocolate shops, a honey shop, two butchers, two fruit & vegetable stands, and best and most decadent of all, two foie gras shops.

 My favorite is Aux Ducs de Gascogne. The owner Franck, a jovial, gentle man, is most helpful when you want to select foie gras. In fact what I like best is that when you buy any foie gras or paté, he will explain how to serve and store it and he also puts a sheet of paper in the bag with your purchase with the same information. Franck doesn't speak English very well but his manager Johan is fluent. 

Aux Ducs de Gascogne has its own farm in the Gars area in southwestern France and they own 6 stores in Paris. I have tried the foie gras in numerous versions and the quality is excellent and the taste superb. It comes in cans, jars, and refrigerated plastic packages. They recommend buying cans if you are transporting it in your luggage. Besides foie gras entier or bloc style, they offer mousse de canard and terrines of  salmon, rabbit, St. Jacques, and quail. One great gift idea is a selection of 8 sample terrines and patés in little colored boxes for 13.90 euros or 12 for 19.90 euros.

The shop has a vast selection of other top quality gourmet products including olive oils, vinegars, mustards, sweet wines from southwest France and Champagne to accompany the foie gras,liqueurs, Aperitifs, homemade jellies & jams,truffles, Absinthe, chocolate, olives, and jars of beans, fruits, and vegetables.

Aux Ducs de Gascogne has won the 19 prestigious Medaille D'or's in the last 12 years. The other nice thing about the shop is that they always have special sales and reductions on certain products.

Aux Ducs de Gascogne
111 rue St. Antoine, 4th arr.
Metro: St. Paul
Tel. 01 42 71 17 72
http://www.ducsdegascogne.com/fr/default.asp

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Institut Suedois Paris/ Swedish Institute of Paris

Down the block from me located in a gorgeous 16th century hotel particulier/private mansion is the Institut Suedois Paris/ Swedish Institute of Paris. It always has eclectic and unusual shows of contemporary Swedish artists, sculptors, and photographers.

On the opposite side of the street in Square Georges Cain, is  a quirky installation of 12 chairs embedded into the tall trees of the garden by artist Tora Windahl and is part of the Institut.

Another exhibit is the enchanting show of colored and decorated wooden trees, Foret Foraine created by artists Eric Brossier et Linda Hede along with a group of children. Every Saturday and Sunday children, accompanied by an adult, are invited to participate in re-painting the trees.

11 rue Payenne,3d arr.
Metro: St. Paul
Open 12PM-6PM, Tuesday to Sunday
http://www.si.se/Paris/Francais/Institut-suedois-a-Paris/Agenda/

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Eye Need to Do's: The Sound of Music, Ice Magic & Christmas Market on the Champs-Elysees

The Sound of Music
What can be more festive than The Sound of Music at Christmas? The Theatre du Chatelet is presenting a glorious 50th anniversary production. I love the hokey Pierre et Gilles poster. I have never seen a stage production of one of my favorite movies ever and I still cry every time I see it.

December 6- January 3
Theatre du Chatelet
1 Place du Chatelet, 1st arr.
Metro: Chatelet or Hotel de Ville
Tickets

Ice Magic
Over 50 giant ice sculptures of all the Paris monuments including the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and even Rodin's Thinker are on display in a 5,000 sq. feet tent on the Place de la Concorde. Bundle up, it's cold- -6 Celsius /21 degrees Farenheit.

Ice Magic
Till December 28th
Admission 14 euros adults, 12 euros under 25
Open 11AM-11PM
Jardin des Champs Elysees
Avenue des Champs Elysées, 8th arr.
Metro: Champs-Elysees/Clemenceau

Ice Rink at Hotel de Ville
It's time to sharpen your skates again for the annual opening of the skating rink at the Hotel de Ville. It will give you lots of time to practice before the Winter Olympics in February 2010. The rink has free admission but skates cost 5 euros to rent.

Ice skating at Hotel de Ville
Till February 28
Metro: Hotel de Ville
Mon-Thu 12pm-10pm; Fri 12pm-12am; Sat 9am-12am; Sun 9am-10pm 

Christmas Market on the Champs Elysees
Do all your holiday shopping in over 170 stalls at the festive Christmas market on the Champs Elysees. When you are done you can indulge in a glass of hot mulled wine.

Till December 28
Champs Elysees from Place Concorde to the Franklin Roosevelt circle
Metro: Franklin Roosevelt or Concorde

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Petit Palais Murals

While strolling through the circular covered courtyard of the Petit Palais I looked up and discovered these heavenly murals inlaid in the arched ceilings. It's actually called a tympanum and the murals by sculptor Jean Antoine Injalbert depict the muses of the city of Paris.

The Petit Palais is across the street from the Grand Palais and was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 by architect Charles Girault. It has been now named the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts.Most of the collection is the legacy of Auguste Dutui and includes Poussin's The Massacre of the Innocents, Ruben's Prosperpina, and Rembrandt's Self-Portrait with Poodle. There are also Impressionist selections from the nineteenth century by Pisarro, Morisot, Cassatt, Manet, Renoir, and Gauguin.

Petit Palais

Ave. Winston Churchill, 8th arr.

Tel. 01 42 65 12 73

Métro : Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau.

Open 10AM - 5:40PM daily (closed Monday and holidays)

 

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Happy Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays and for the last two years I have published this French Thanksgiving vocabulary list, courtesy of my former New York French teacher, Luc Georges.

I usually make Thanksgiving dinner but this year I am invited to a friend's and will make an all-American dessert Apple Brown Betty.

Happy Thanksgiving and be thankful for what you have and for your family and friends.

 

French Thanksgiving Vocabulary

Thanksgiving    le jour de l'action de grâce
autumn, fall    l'automne
colony    une colonie
feast    un festin, un banquet
football    le football américain
grateful    (adj)    reconnaissant
harvest    la récolte
horn of plenty    la corne d'abondance
native    (adj)    natif
(Native American) Indians    les Indiens (d'Amérique)
November    novembre
parade    une parade
Pilgrims    les pèlerins
settler    un colonisateur
to share    partager
Thursday    jeudi
tradition    une tradition
traditional    (adj)    traditionnel
treaty    un pacte
tribe    une tribu
 
The food served for the Thanksgiving feast varies from home to home, but here are some traditional dishes.
food    la nourriture
corn    le maïs
cranberries    les canneberges
gravy    la sauce au jus de viande
mashed potatoes    la purée
pumpkin pie    la tarte à la citrouille
stuffing    la farce
sweet potatoes    les patates douces
turkey    la dinde
yam    un igname

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Lunch with Lynn/Under 20 Eats: Baan Lek

It was my turn to choose this month so I decided on Baan-Lek, a small, Thai restaurant in the Marais near my apartment. The card says Cuisine de Siam, so one would think the food is authentic. Yes, it is and having eaten there a few times now, it has become one of my favorite Thai restaurants in Paris.

We went on a Friday afternoon at about 12 and pretty much had the place to ourselves. The interior with two side by side dining rooms is modern but warm and the wall behind us was made to look like a abstract painting. The formule is 13.50 euros for three courses and the choices were limited to two dishes for the entrees and plats , and one for dessert. I chose the clear vermicelli noodles with chicken, yam woon sen kai, and Lynn chose the spicy seafood soup,poh taek. Mine was fresh and fragrant and the slivered chicken bits were moist and tender. Lynn's soup had a nice tang of lemongrass along with good, solid vegetables including baby corn and big mushrooms and and a few large plump shrimp. Lynn wasn't too crazy about her salmon curry with fresh basil and coconut milk, chuchee pla,  and she found the sauce too rich and creamy. I liked the curried pork, moo phat prik,which was simpler with earthy flavors. I liked the fact that the dishes came with rice which usually costs extra at Thai restaurants. Grapefruit and mango sorbet were most refreshing and welcome after our spicy dishes and served in a lovely jade colored bowl on a stand, which I was tempted to swipe. Service was pleasant and low-keyed.

I liked my meal better than Lynn, and would for sure return to Baan-Lek for its good value lunch.The prices a la carte run about 30 euros per person for two courses including wine.

7 rue de Jarente, 4th arr.
Metro: St. Paul
Tel. 01 42 77 49 35
Open 7 days

Spicy seafood soup,poh taek

Pork curry,chuchee pla

Mango & grapefruit sorbet

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Restaurant Review: La Taverna

There are many excellent Italian restaurants in Paris but they are not always easy to find. Most of them have come from recommendations and my newest find La Taverna was one of them. The 7th arr. is a ways from me but I was feeling adventurous and said what the hell, it's worth it if the restaurant is good.

On a quiet street a stones throw from the Eiffel Tower, the outside looked like a postcard cliche of an Italian restaurant but in this case it was very appealing. Once inside, La Taverna had a warm, inviting ambiance with hues of soft orange lighting. In fact the color was so warm that my food photos have a strong orange hue to them. One rare element for a Paris restaurant was that it was spacious and the tables were set far apart from one another. Too many restaurants are cramped with tables that are too small and after I am finished I feel as though I need a chiropractic adjustment.

The menu selection was just right  with enough variety in each menu category. A tart of Taleggio cheese and roquette in a phyllo crust was rich but light with the bitterness of the sweetly dressed roquette balancing the sharp aftertaste of the Taleggio.  My dining companion had the eggplant, smoked cheese,pesto,sun-dried tomato millefeuille which I of course tasted, and the thinly sliced vegetables were delicate and lightly sauteed. 

I always have an ordering dilemma in Italian restaurants as to whether I should get pasta or meat/fish for my main course and the tempting selections made it worse. I finally opted for the tagliatelle with duck ragout and once I tasted it, I had no doubt I ordered the right dish. It was smoky and intense with the duck so tender it felt like velvet on my palate. The true test of any exceptional pasta dish is that the pasta itself is flavorful enough on its own and the tagliatelle easily passed the test.

For dessert, I stuck with a classic, tiramisu, because I was confident from the two courses before that it would be good. Fluffy and light as air with a bite of bittersweet cocoa,it was a dreamy end to a near perfect meal.

The service was friendly and attentive but most important of all it was efficient.Another common complaint is that many a good Paris restaurant meals have been marred by lack of service or being understaffed to the point where you wonder if your waiter will ever surface.

So if you are craving authentic, beautifully prepared Italian cuisine in a comfortable dining room, treat yourself to La Taverna.

La Taverna
22 rue du Champs du Mars, 7th arr.
Metro: Ecole Militaire, 8 line
Tel. 01 45 52 64 59
Price range: 35-45 euros a person including wine. 

Tagliatelle with duck ragout 

Lemon tart

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Tapisseries de la Bucherie

After finishing another delicious bargain lunch at Le Reminet, I strolled up the street and discovered the most charming tapestry and needlepoint shop La Tapisseries de la Bucherie. The windows were brimming vibrant colored yarns and hand-painted needlepoint canvasses and what attracted me most about the interior was the hand-painted,spiral staircase. I know very little about this special craft that so many people are passionate about but I was fascinated with the beautiful tapestries, the wooden case with dozens of thimbles,the wrought iron rood divider with various silk tassels hanging from it, and the intricately illustrated pillows with scenes of yesteryear. I spoke at length with the friendly owner Dominique Siegler-Lathrop about the extensive services the shop offers besides selling a full range materials for needlepoint and tapestry making. They include needlepoint finishing, classes & workshops, private lessons by appointment, making cushions & pillows and special orders. She said her most popular pattern was the unicorn. The shop carries over 400 colors of hand-dyed  Aubusson wool, which is used for the famous Aubusson tapestries dating back from the 1500s. Needlepoint and tapestry enthusiasts will have to make a special visit to La Tapisseries de la Bucherie.

2 rue de Haut-Pave, 5th arr.
Metro: Maubert-Mutualite
Open Tuesday-Saturday 2PM-7PM
Tel 01 40 46 87 69
http://www.bucherie.com

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Eye Prefer Paris Tours: Margo Bayer

Village St. Paul

Margo Bayer is from Los Angeles and had a quick stopover in Paris in mid-October after visiting Israel. She had a wonderful curiosity about Paris and was fascinated with the Marais. We had the most delightful time exploring the southern side of the Marais between the Seine and rue St. Antoine/rue de Rivoli, the part of the Marais most people never see. Highlights of our tour included the Shoah Holocaust Museum, the Village St. Paul with its hidden courtyards and antique shops, the narrow windy streets with architectural surprises, and the gorgeous former private mansions dating from the 1500 & 1600s.  Her photos capture the true essence of my of my Marais tours.

St. Gervais Church

The garden at Hotel de Sens

Village St. Paul

Entrance doors of Hotel Raoul (building demolished in 1965)

A Holocaust memorial

A piece of the wall of Philippe-Auguste from the 13th century

French Kiss

Margo & I- BFF's

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Quirky Paris Shop Windows 2

Coco Chanel, Alber Elbaz,??

I saw these funny clothes hangers with illustrations of iconic French fashion designers in a shop window near St. Sulpice last week. I can figure out who most of them are but there are a few that I am not sure of. Can you fashion mavens tell me who the missing ones are?

The second series of photos are from am eyeglass boutique on rue de Sevigne in the Marais depicting old Hollywood stars with new sunglasses. The last photo is a satiric political comment on the different governing policies of Obama and Sarkozy. 

Talc, rue de 4 Vents, 6th arr., Metro: Odeon

Lafont, 12 rue de Sevigne,4th arr., Metro: St. Paul

Note to subscribers: My apologies for putting today's title on yesterday's Door of the Month post. I have been testing a new subject line system and got things confused.

Christian LaCroix, Yves. St. Laurent

??, Karl Lagerfeld, Sonia Rykiel

Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano

 

New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte’s professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.

Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 3 students, maximum 6 students.

Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com