Girls' Guide to Paris: Paris restaurants, hotels, spas, fashion, art & culture

Courtesy Forum des Images

Every August, the Forum des Images gives Parisians a summer gift: free cinema under the stars. Their Cinéma au Clair de Lune moves from quartier to quartier, showing films that feature Paris in different parts of the city. This year, from August 4 to 22, you can follow the series from Montmartre to the Marais—seeing work by directors such as Renoir, Rohmer, Godard and Klapisch.

You’re not in Paris this August? Well, no need to miss out! Among the countless films that compliment, showcase or try to explain the City of Light, here are a dozen favorites that can transport you here for a few hours. >> Read more

Our Current Fave

Hôtel Amour

By Barbra Austin

The leafy terrace at Hôtel Amour.

The food at Hôtel Amour is perfectly fine, but it’s the leafy terrace in the back that makes my heart sing. On a warm summer day it feels several degrees cooler in this sort of urban secret garden. Here it’s also cooler, with a laid-back right-bank mix of diners tucking into their tartare with gusto.

The menu is conducive to light meals and snacking. Start with a bunch of radishes or make a meal out of a chicken Caesar salad, a salade niçoise, or a plate of melon, mozzarella and Spanish ham. In case you haven’t noticed, the offerings here are less French, more casual-cosmopolitan. But then so is the clientele. >> Read more

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Trocadero at Sunset by Beth Davidson

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Photos 1-4 (Fireworks, Metro, Mouin Rouge, Coffee Cup): Grand Prize Winner: Stacy Pedersen (Napa, CA – now Paris); Photos 5-7 (Girl in fountain, Eiffel at sunset, Lock on Fence): Beth Davidson (Port Huron, Michigan);
8 Ceiling at Printemps: Yan Yan Teoh (Sidney, Australia); 9 Couple walking: Quinn Connors – (Paris, France); 10 Kissing Oscar Wilde's tomb at Pere LaChaise: Christine Eitel Commons – (Paris, France); 11 White Medallion: Carina Okula; 12 Sacre Coeur in Pink: Claire Liao – (Taipei, Taiwan)