Fancy a small but well-proportioned early-evening wine tasting at the stylish Le Meurice hotel and restaurant, just opposite the Tuileries? You might need cheap eats afterwards but one of their...

A brief sojourn in Paris recently provided considerable material for my notebook. It now includes a description of the luscious, green-tomato gazpacho hiding an olive oil sorbet served at...

Le Repaire du Cartouche in Paris’s 11th arrondissement is one of the most unusual restaurants I have ever visited. Firstly, it is impossible to miss. Exit the metro...

As we left Agapé, which opened earlier this year in Paris’s chic 17th arrondissement, I congratulated Laurent Lapaire, its maitre d’ and co-owner, on what had been an excellent dinner. As I...

French and British restaurants have already suffered two body-blows this year, even before any significant fall-out from a faltering global economy.   The first was the death of...

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A fortnight ago, New York restaurateur Danny Meyer was in London to give a talk on the philosophy of enlightened hospitality which he expounds in his book ‘Setting the Table’ to a...

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  Our evening at the Bistrot Paul-Bert in Paris’s 11 th arrondisement, not far from the Bastille, was memorable for many reasons.   Our friends, who had defied my...

Without wishing this to sound like a shaggy dog story, the following three Paris restaurant recommendations came from an American, a Brazilian and a Frenchman. And the brevity of each report is in...

from: Rami of GB question: You asked for suggestions for good wine lists. L'Angle de Faubourg in Paris. I thought...

Brunch is, not surprisingly, a meal that Parisians are only now beginning to appreciate - after all in a culture that has existed around three good meals a day an amalgamation of breakfast and...

Smokers to the right, smokers to the left. All around are red-and-white checked napkins and tablecloths; on the walls inter alia are pictures of Oscar Wilde and a photo of the singer George...

Paris has suddenly become much more interesting for those of us who love wine. It was always possible to find some of France's best bottles in this tantalising city, on the lists of some of...

Last week I watched two French restaurateurs, one from Paris, the other from the Lubéron, meet by chance outside Jean-Georges Vongerichten's recently opened Market restaurant just off the...