NO WORRIES PARIS

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  • Real Coffee in Paris: the new kickass baristas

    Your quest for a good cup of filtered coffee is on. Try sipping at one of these new coffee houses that also serve up some mouthwatering accompaniments like beetroot salad, string wrapped gluten-free sandwiches or lemon pot de creme. Try the Broken Arm’s “club sandwich” with smoked salmon and cream of asparagus spread and a…

  • Paris Haute Couture Show: a two-fer

    Visit Paris’s historic City Hall and take in the Paris Haute Couture exhibit in the Salle Saint-Jean which ends July 6. It’s free. About a hundred masterpieces from the Galliera Museum will be showcased: Doucet, Lanvin, Patou, Chanel, Rochas, Jacques Heim, Dior, Gaultier, Lacroix, Alaia, Balenciaga, Gres, Courreges, Schiaparelli, Balmain, Molyneux, Carven to name a…

  • Sleuthing along the Seine

    Pont Alexandre III, Paris: where wedding and fashion photographers have a heydey, where pickpockets roam and lately, where thieves have removed two of the bridge’s historic bronze plaques that proclaim the name of the monument. An amazing feat to pull off under the watchful eye of the Paris gendarmes. Taken for the value of the…

  • The neo-bistros. Goodbye blanquette de veau

    Hello terrine de foie gras, chutney de coingns . . .huitres en tartare, bouillon cresson, wasabi-soja. . .cochon de lait, poires-celeri-chataignes . . . souffle au Grand Marnier, caramel au beurre sale . . . andouillette tempura with perch sashimi and béarnaise sauce . . . crudo of scallop with sea urchin and horseradish snow.…