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Getting into the Holiday Spirit in Paris

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Paris is a place with a mythical, magical quality. Every day of the year can be special, but the City of Light really lives up to its name during the holiday season. It’s almost impossible not to fall head first into a pool of holiday spirit in Paris. Here are a few of our favorite...

Auberge Flora

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I’ve always had a special place in my heart for women chefs. While there are certainly a growing number of celebrated top toques of the female persuasion, it’s still a fairly male-centric culinary world. So when I heard that accomplished chef Florence Mikula opened her third Paris restaurant, I knew I had to go check it out.

Mikula previously owned and operated Parisian staples Les Olivades and the now-defunct Les Saveurs de Flora...

Paris Restaurant reviews: Kura

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While Paris is obviously the place to go for the native French cuisine, it hasn’t hit the same stride as most cosmopolitan cities in offering diners a wide array of ethnic food options. Though there are quite a few places where you can get sushi to go—or on a conveyor belt—I’ve struggled to find good-quality Japanese cooking at a Paris restaurant. So it was with extreme jubilation that I accepted an invitation to a fairly new Japanese restaurant in the 16th Arrondissement called...

Le Porte-Pot

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When it came time to find an appropriate place to celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau this year, I ran through my regular list of Paris wine bars. But no one was offering anything special for the occasion, so my friend and I ventured off list to a wine bar I had been meaning to try. This place was also pouring the young red wine fresh on the third Thursday of November, as tradition dictates....

Pierre Sang Boyer

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Top Chef is as popular a television program in France as it is in the US, and as in the US, many contestants on France’s version of the show go on to open their own restaurants after all the media exposure. Such is the case for the Top Chef 2011 semifinalist, Pierre Sang Boyer, who just launched his first Paris...

Happy Nouilles

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It’s raining in Paris… again. I know, I know, I still get to live in the City of Light, but I caught a cold too, so I’ve been a little grumpy. I thought about which Paris restaurant could cheer me up, and the perfect spot came to mind: Happy Nouilles.

You almost can’t even say the name of the place without smiling....

Vivant Table

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It was with some trepidation that I ventured into Vivant Table to try Pierre Jancou’s recently updated Paris bistro. Vivant opened in April of 2011 to mostly rave reviews, but Girls’ Guide founder Doni Belau had a less-than-perfect experience when she dined there, with beyond poor service and inedible items on the plate. So I was curious to see where things would fall for...

Delmas Diner

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Parisians have been jumping on board with the current craze for hamburgers in Paris, as evidenced by the popularity of spots like the burger truck Camion Qui Fume and Blend. Even Ralph Lauren got in on the action. Now it’s time to add another to the stack with newcomer Delmas Diner.

The original Delmas Café looks out onto the picturesque place de la Contrescarpe near the busy food-destination street rue Monge....

Neva

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It’s hard to get excited about going to a Paris restaurant when you have to walk around a train station and over the tracks in pouring rain as I did last week when I went to Neva. Open just a year, Neva sits alone in a residential neighborhood just north of Gare St.-Lazare. Once I located the sole restaurant on the corner, I was relieved to open the door to find a modern, welcoming restaurant done up in warm hues of brown. I was intrigued to try the cooking of the chef, Béatriz Gonzales...

Le Christine

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The giant fork hanging above the doorway of Le Christine had me smiling before I even got to my table. I like a Paris restaurant that isn’t afraid of having a little fun.

Le Christine continues this playfulness inside. Rustic wood beams on the ceiling transition to whitewashed brick walls. Splashes of red dot the decor and color the...

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