How I became Parisbreakfasts, Hotel Mirande

  People often ask me how come I moved to Paris. Was it my secret dream? And how did I become Parisbreakfasts? I left NYC because of breakfast☕️🥐 

In 2005 I went to a watercolor workshop in Provence.  Everyday they took us to a different hilltop town to paint. While everyone else was joyously painting the landscape, 

I would joyously find a cafe, 

Order a petit dejeuner ☕️🥐

And paint it on site. A habit was formed. 

When I got back to Paris, after the workshop, I ran around ordering 2-3 cafe petit dejeuners every morning, setting up still lives. This last trip in Provence I thought I’d commemorate the habit and find a grand breakfast like I did in Cannes at the Carlton. 

I have a feeling I may never find another breakfast the Carlton—a jam-lovers dream.

Still I fell in instantly love ❤️ with pictures of Hotel La Mirande’s silvery coffee pot. It doesn’t take much...

Hotel La Mirande is certainly the grandest hotel in Avignon. But as a non-hotel resident I may not partake of their superb breakfast buffet(30€) malheureusement. 

Relegated to the palm court for coffee (5,50€). 

There are worse places to have a coffee☕️

I made a few doodles onsite.

That gorgeous silver coffee pot did not disappoint. 

On my way out I stopped in La Mirande’s gift shop for a look at their jam jars. Nice bonnets.

Outside a grey cat (also a non-resident of the hotel) was sitting in the middle of the street holding up traffic. That’s how things go in Avignon.

A delivery truck carefully drove around the cat. 

Well that’s the end of a long story. I hope you’re enjoying breakfast as you read this. 

I’m still painting breakfasts 17 years later. I’m awfully glad the ☕️🥐habit stuck. 

A Big Merci to Brit writer Viv Groskop of the Guardian, FT + at least 4 books, for giving me a shoutout in her fun and interesting Friday newsletter. You can read and subscribe here.

— Shout-out to newsletter subscriber, Carol of Paris Breakfast. Click here for her beautiful watercolour paintings and her mail subscription, Paris in an envelope. So cheering. Wonderful gift idea. 

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