I forgot to eat my daily full-proof winter elixir - pomegranate seeds.
I forgot to eat my daily full-proof winter elixir - pomegranate seeds.
Doing chocolate research 🔬 is one of the easiest things you can do in Paris, especially for the November Paris Letter.On Monday, late in the afternoon in the rain, I viewed 252 pieces from the Chanel auction of Mouna Ayoub,the world’s biggest couture buyer.
The announcement of LE MEILLEURE TARTE AUX POMME 2023 gets me running out the door 🚪 yesterday & down the rabbit 🐇 hole again.
The WINNER IS: CHEZ MEUNIER 🏆 They happen to conveniently have a big branch inside Galeries Lafayette le Gourmet, including a cafe at 35, Bd Haussmann.
Another CHOCOLATE SALON! Can you handle it?
10 years ago I went to the Baltard Feline show in Nougent-sur-Marne, a few stops outside Paris on ligne RER A.
Last Sunday I went again to the Salon du Chat because…I’m a recent cat lover (since Covid)
Is your chandelier in bad disrepair?
At Friday night’s opening of the 2023 Salon du Chocolat I made a bee-line for Maison Pralus.
Yesterday I met up with Jill of Mad About Macarons fame at Les Deux Abeilles 🐝 Have you been?
For afternoon tea 🫖 again.
Usually after I do a PARIS LETTER run 🏃♂️ to la poste 📬 I’m allowed to wonder aimlessly🤸🏾♀️ Yesterday I wondered into the Dutch concept store HEMA looking for Halloween stuff. They’re already thinking Xmas🎄/Christmas/Noel & ginger cookies! Somehow I resisted 🫣
This week I visited the “Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, the last months” exhibition at Musée d’Orsay 2 days in a row.
The exhibit is on until February 4, 2024. Reserve now.
Yesterday Paris Fashion Week closed as always with Chanel RTW 2024. (The show starts 3+ minutes in). We were there on the outside gawping…in the rain.
Do you love crabs? Yesterday I met with Solli & Francesco for serious crab eating.Did you know in the middle of Paris, you can transport yourself to Surf City,N.J. or Maryland or Brest by heading to le Crabe Marteau 🔨 I got there early and chatted with a lone Normand devouring his whole crab.
Monday morning I went to the preview at PALAIS GALLERIA of designer, Azzedine Alaïa Couturier Collectioneur.
My mad pursuit of robins has switched to ducks 🦆 Especially since I’ve been told there are NO actual robins in Paris.
Unless you live in Paris you may not know there is a BIG Rugby game on & everyone is celebrating 🥳 including ducks 🦆
Especially the annual 3-day LES MARCHÉS FLOTTANTS DU SUD-OUEST 🤸♂️at quai de Montebello, across from Notre Dame
Working backwards, sketching on the TGV train heading back to Paris at 10:04 am