Quantcast
Channel: Letter from Paris – Everett Potter's Travel Report
Browsing all 68 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: La Rotisserie d’en Face

La Rotisserie d’en Face, Paris The dog days of August are a challenge in terms of finding places to eat when friends come to town, but they also offer me a rare opportunity to revisit places I haven’t...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: La Table d’ Eugene

La Table d’ Eugene, Paris Perched on a hillside overlooking Paris, Montmartre, once a country village and later a bohemian neighborhood known for its lively cabarets and popular with artists like...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: Les Enfants Rouge

Les Enfants Rouge, in the Marais Before I say anything else, let me state that Les Enfants Rouge, a new bistro in the Marais, is a good little restaurant and that Japanese chef Daï Shinozuka, who most...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: Bistro Bellet

    Blanquette de Veau at Bistro Bellet, Paris So after hurriedly shedding my winter work uniform of black watch plaid flannel pajamas at 7.30pm and taking a shower, I was late for a change. But this...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: Bistrot Belhara

Bistrot Belhara, Paris It’s hard for me to say exactly when my deep love of good food first surfaced, but suffice it to say that the thing that interested me most when our local newspaper arrived on...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: La Boîte à Sardine

La Boîte à Sardine, Marseille It may sound odd, but as far as I’m concerned, the best time of the year to visit Marseille is during the winter. This is when the city is quiet without its growing...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Interview: Alexander Lobrano, Hungry for France

Photo credit: Steven Rothfeld   Interview by Everett Potter The writer Alexander Lobrano has lived in Paris for three decades and his latest book, Hungry for France, is a culinary love letter to his...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: Aux Enfants Gâtés

Aux Enfants Gâtés On my way to meet Bruno and some friends for dinner the other night, I was in sort of a bad mood. An old college friend had called for a chat just before I went out, and it had been...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: Clown Bar

Clown Bar, Paris Adjacent to the Cirque d’Hiver (Winter Circus), a handsome 1852 arena between the Place de la Republique and the Bastille, the Clown Bar has always been one of the most charming places...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Alexander Lobrano’s Letter from Paris: Le Bon Georges

Le Bon Georges, Paris Le Bon Georges, a recently opened bistro just five minutes from my front door in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, offers a delicious lesson in how to judge the city’s food right...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: Chardenoux

Chardenoux, 1 rue Jules Valles, 11th Arrondissement, Paris By Alexander Lobrano Chardenoux has always been a very good bistro. This is saying a lot, too, since it’s also one of the very rare...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: California Dreaming

Photo credit: Steven Rothfeld By Alexander Lobrano I am very much looking forward to my California book tour from October 16 to October 24, and I really hope I’ll have the pleasure of meeting my...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: Les Poulettes Batignolles

Les Poulettes Batignolles, Paris. By Alexander Lobrano After working for twelve years in Barcelona, Parisian-born chef Ludovic Dubois, son of the distinguished fromagere Martine Dubois, has returned to...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hexagone, Paris: The New Shape of French Gastronomy

Hexagone, Paris. Credit Jerome Galland. By Alexander Lobrano There are many things to like about chef Mathieu Pacaud‘s new restaurant Hexagone in Paris. Not only does it serve some exquisitely refined...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: Auberge Bressane

  Auberge Bressane at lunchtime. Photo @Alexander Lobrano, all rights reserved. By Alexander Lobrano After a morning of musing on the question of where to go to lunch with a friend from London who...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: Benoit

Benoit. Credit C.-Sarramon By Alexander Lobrano Paris without Benoit, a wonderful old bistro on the edge of the Marais that’s been in business since 1912, would be almost as unimaginable to me as...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: Le Bon Saint Pourçain

Le Bon Saint Pourçain. Credit Alexander Lobrano. By Alexander Lobrano In Paris, the assiduously institutionalized exultation of the city’s past poses the same sort of risk as the sugar water in a bee...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: La Bourse et la Vie

La Bourse et la Vie. Credit Alexander Lobrano. Story & photos by Alexander Lobrano This past summer I wrote a happy piece for the Wall Street Journal about the quickening bistro revival in Paris....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: At Mensae, Belleville Goes Gastro

Mensae. Credit Alexander Lobrano. By Alexander Lobrano When I asked chef Kevin d’Andréa why he and business partner and fellow chef Thibault Sombardier had chosen the Belleville district of Paris as...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Letter from Paris: Alec Lobrano’s Ten Favorite Meals of 2015

Rouget with green apple peashoot spelt at Le Crouzil in Brittany. Photo by Alexander Lobrano.   Celeste in London. Photo by Alexander Lobrano. By Alexander Lobrano On the eve of a new year, please...

View Article
Browsing all 68 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images