Cherries 🍒 at Le Bistrot Paul Bert

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• Tuesday morning SOLLI gave me a giant bag of cherries 🍒 

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• Not my photo

• Tuesday evening I met Karen at classic Bistrot Paul Bert (18 rue Paul Bert). Have you been?

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• I’ve known Karen of the irresistibly, delicious Ooh La La Artisan Confectionery since at least 2012.
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• Back then Karen’s daughters looked like this…
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• They turned into two stunning Odalisques, both in short, white, lace dresses from Zara if you want their look 👀
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• French classical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres would have stayed up nights dreaming of them.
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• They arrived Tuesday from visiting New York, where Karen was showing her out-of-this-world Frenchie-style candies at the annual NY Fancy Food Show, (which I used to attend).
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• I was given an extra candy box for Solli (who is away). Karen makes her candies in South Africa.
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• Anyhoo what to eat at Le Paul Bert. The menu is very meaty..not so much for vegetarians. By the way, they have a good seafood restaurant, just next door, L’Ecailler du Bistrot. 
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• So I got the salade de Buratta.
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• Karen, who can put away several horses 🐎 at dinner and never show an ounce, got steak au poivre de Sarawak. The peppercorns are from a Malaysian island in Borneo.
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• After having the foie gras. The girls also got the steak and Tatare de boeuf. I was surrounded.
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  Through dinner we talked dreamily of the Soufflé au Grand Marnier for dessert 🍮 *ALERT- order it the moment you sit down or you could be out of luck.
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  We were too late, so we shared Île Flottante au praliné roses (which I had been secretly 👁️ eye-balling anyway.
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  Major Yum!
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  Thé Paul Bert has a cute gift shop. I checked before going and fell hard for their espresso cup. I meant to order one to photograph but forgot while wallowing in the delish flottante.
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  Today I added Solli’s cherries 🍒 to coffee cups- et voila
• To be found on Etsy 👍
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  Everyone asks how was Fete de National/Bastille Day 🇫🇷 on Monday? Nothing that festive like in New York.
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  The ‘fireworks’ were controversial. 
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  Too many drones complained 
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  The people who waited all day 
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  At the Tour Eiffel. I watched Le feu d'artifice/14 juillet next day on FR2 and liked it 😊
• 🍒 Keep cool ❤️