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Two observations on restaurant service, following a meal at Le Servan , the spiffing new restaurant on rue Saint Maur by the charming a...

Twenty minutes into our bike trip around Sancerre last July, as we wended south along the left bank of the Loire, the rear innertube of ...

It goes without saying that Irish culture doesn't lack for originality or regional nuance. But a history of economic subjugation and...

At the restaurant I used to manage in Los Angeles, we had an amusing problem. One of the owners was friends with R.E.M. , and accordingl...

One day I'm going to walk into Le Meurice and stand for an hour on one foot. Then I'll bow and the press will take photos and I...

A few weeks ago I organised a hilarious and, thankfully, thereafter utterly unrepresentative meal for a visiting friend at Père Lachaise...

Chefs deserve our pity. Critics dissect their every gesture in a search for novelty that is, through no fault of chefs, mostly futile. D...

A familiar quandary arises when discussing places like charming new 17ème arrondissement wine bar Lucien La Chance . I want to encourage...

In the course of an otherwise friendly conversation the other day, a chef-restaurateur I know asked me in exasperation whether Paris con...

Chez Aline ,* the thimble-sized lunch spot run out of a converted horse butchery by well-traveled chef Delphine Zampetti, has been open ...

The friends I brought to Roca during Fashion Week probably thought I was taking them to Beauvais Airport. The restaurant, a charming if...

In the not-too-distant future, when Paris drops the pretense of being French, Le Fooding will organise several multinational corporatio...

A magazine I write for sometimes called Punch recently published two interesting pieces about what it means to be a sommelier. The com...

I started frequenting my friend Marie-Jo Mimoun's adorable Morroccan restaurant Le Tagine about two years ago. Mimoun has a superb ...

As a foreigner in Paris of a certain profusely fertile age group, I often wonder what it would be like to raise a child here. These reve...

If ever you wish to experience an almost out-of-body sense of superfluousness, visit the January Loire salons and tell the natural winem...