Paint Paris Red

Back to Paris reds.... Cerise red, watercolor, 9" x 11'

The Paris bistro is almost always rouge/red = steak frites

Is there a cafe Rouge?

Chaise rouge.

Early morning Paris cafe...

Chef's break.

Texting in a taxi = non

Eating an ice cream cone = oui

Alsacian Christiane Ferber's griottes rouges.

Red/pink framboise 'fraisier'.

Lequel ces fruits rouges prefere tu?

Red jello in Paris is elegance.

A red kid's corduroy jumper is d'elegant.

A petit Parisien red coat dans le rue.

Bonjour Paris Reds!

Les Fruits Rouges de Juillet

Fruit rouge the, 9" x 11"

It's July so you should be eating your fruits rouge.
If not, please hightail it over to Gerard Mulot 
76, rue de Seine 75006Nobody does fruit rouge better. Mulot seems to be in love with red fruits and why not? This is the season. I just had some for breakfast.

Gerard Mulot's bag/sac is perfectly rouge for your red desserts...

Sadaharu Aoki is no slouch with the red pastry brush, but let's face it, Macha green tea is really his favorite.

Ok, you cannot go 2 steps in Paris without bumping into some red fruits. The new Carette salon de the has a stack of them.

Did La Grande Epicerie have moi in mind with this 'Artistes Fruit Rouge'? But you cannot taste everything.

If you can't get your paws on some fab fruit rouge desserts there is always fraise tagada- no one can put a terrific spin on penny candy like the French.

Not to be left by the rue, Sennelier catches the fruit rouges tendance/trend and goes to town with it.

Naturalment you must be appropriately dressed to eat les fruit rouges.

You can make do with just a red fleur rouge, if you have no red shoes.

And yes, you can get away with just a red scarf if it comes to it.

True, you will have to go to Lyon to this all-red shop to get it, but it's just 2 hours there and back on the tgv, so why not?

Then sit yourself down at this red cafe in the Marais.

With this red book. Don't worry about the content, as long as it's red!

I did exactly this in juin. Granted it was not juillet (the RED month) so no wonder there were a few slipups. I ordered this delicious looking fruits rouges compote at À Priori Thé. They threw in the gingered brownie as an extra treat. miam-miam!

The tea salon is set outside in the Galerie Vivienne corridor so when I went inside to the loo, naturalement I took all my stuff, just playing it safe...

Imagine my surprise when I saw the staff’s red faces, crowded around my little table. They thought I'd done a runner! Don't believe anyone who tells you the French don't smile. Ha! There were Big smiles when they saw me return to pay the l'addition.

BONJOUR FRUITS ROUGES JUILLET!

Petite Chaperón Rouge

I'm beginning to think just as the French adore their Alice, they also adore le Petite Chaperón Rouge/Little Red Riding Hood.

Why else do you see so many red coats on the streets of Paris?

I would really love to know. This French Girl is dressed almost head-to-toe in red/rouge.

Les gosse/the kids are dressed in red - the better to see them on the playground? That's a universal truth.

French Girl, far right, like many French grannies, is wearing typically a red coat. I guess if you are French you never grow out of your obsession with Petite Chaperón Rouge.

Here another grannie, walzing by a red building - there are hundreds in Paris by the way. But that's another post. Frankly I could post all week on Paris Reds - it's that pervasive.

Red is easy to spot in the street. That's how I know there's a lot of it in Paris and next to nil in NYC. I'm thinking of wearing a sandwich board sign on the street, explaining,

"I am just shooting RED today,

So quit the baleful looks SVP"

Sometimes you hit it lucky and get a double dose of red...

This trio of rouge looks lost. Maybe from the provinces since they're all in red.

The French gent on the right, is correctly noticing the pigeons inside Colette's vitrine, while his French femme is remembering the days when she could fit into these dresses...c'est la vie

This French woman, all in red gives baleful looks at a French Girl sans tights with her short shorts. For once I was spared.

French Girl gave me baleful looks every morning, as she dressed for work and I grabbed my camera to shoot it. She's wearing her classic red Marc Jacobs Le manteau redingote.

Now for all your hard work slogging through the Paris red pictures, a treat - gateaux fruit rouges bien sur!

BONJOUR Petite Chaperón Rouge!!