not drinking poison in paris

Rue de l'Arbre Sec is, for me, the Bermuda Triangle of Paris. If I mention passing thataway to friends they seem to expect by now that ...

La Cave de l'Insolite , my friend Michel's offbeat natural wine lair near Oberkampf, has just begun serving a tiny menu. In prop...

For our staff meal after fashion week we had a choice of entrée : smoked salmon or poached eggs. Since the restaurant in question was a low-...

Z, P, et M. Poinsot On the night we attended last week's Jean-Luc Poinsot tasting at Le Garde Robe, my New Zealander friend Z informe...

My friends M and H and I were even to the very end unable to decide on a catchy name for the Alsace-Japanese-themed dinner we hosted at my ...

... Don't always have you over on Friday afternoons for a bottle Arbois* and home-made foie gras. I'm just extraordinarily lucky ...

Watching Twin Peaks  twenty years on, I'm still continually struck that anything this surreal and perturbing was ever shown on network ...

I mentioned it before, in my post on the 19eme's Quedubon : it takes guts and daring to open a great restaurant in an unlikely locale. ...

I suspect the chef behind this plate presentation was either insane, or morally opposed to the consumption of veal: I really dig a good v...

My friends and I shared a bottle of 2005 Jean Foillard Fleurie a few weeks ago at Le Garde Robe. I for one* was TOTALLY CONSUMED with curi...

The funny thing about pairing with cervelle de veau is, at least in my case, I'm not necessarily looking for something that will accen...

I understand, but vehemently dislike, the habit of automatically serving all white wines in ice buckets. Allowing for certain exceptions - ...

I've always loved Jonathan Richman but I really could not disagree more with this song. What should we do then, Jojo, just guzzle it d...

Above are my tasting notes for the Fall Wine Preview my friend Josh hosted last week at Spring Boutique , the retail wing of Daniel Rose...

The trumpeting self-publishing hubbub of the Anglophone expat community here in Paris sometimes allows us to forget there are also correspo...

Le Baron Rouge began serving oysters again this past weekend. My friend J and I were extremely amped about this. So much so that we plotted...