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An address that often seems to get overlooked or underrated in the perennial 'Best Bistrot' features these days is chef Thierry ...

I squirmed with embarrassment reading a recent NYTimes opinion piece bemoaning " How Hipsters Ruined Paris ." Not because I co...

I can pinpoint the precise moment at which, despite language struggles and disgust with service norms and volcanic resentment of patrici...

Isle-sur-Serein isn't the most picturesque village in the Yonne. That honor might go to Noyers, a medieval town containing a supe...

Alice and Olivier de Moor  were the main reason I'd long been keen to do a bike trip around Chablis. Along with their neighbor in ...

Here's a hoary chestnut of dining wisdom: when choosing amongst countryside bistrots, one doesn't often go wrong sticking to tho...

It's poor form to be late to an appointment with any vigneron. But anyone familiar with unimpeachable greatness of Vincent Dauviss...

By the time my friend Camille Fourmont opened her  Buvette  in the 11ème this past spring, rumours had already spread that American ...

When a restaurant or bar really blows me away, I think I instinctively look for ways to compare it to Bruce Springsteen . It's just ...

If one disembarks the train from Paris at Vincelles and travels in the direction of Irancy, one crosses the Yonne into another blip-size...

My friends and I wound up at Domaine Colinot kind of by default, as we passed through Irancy on the bike trip we took this past ...

If a successful restaurant concept aims to serve cuisine that inspires respect for its chefs, then, conversely, the hallmark of a succes...

Ever since moving to Paris I've found London frightful. I think this is because I've come to define quality of life in terms of ...

My chef friend G's last night in town the other evening unfortunately coincided with what you might call the Mariana Trench of Aug...

It was perhaps unfair of me, in discussing cave-à-manger pioneer Aux Crieurs de Vin , to refer to Troyes as a one-bistrot town. For the ...

Troyes is not unusual among French towns for being home to only one terrific informal restaurant. I understand that similar culinary e...