Burgers: Blend 75002
Blend is a burger joint serving up fluffy brioche buns, beef by artisan butcher Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec and frites maison. Paris is full of hamburgers. It’s become just as much a national dish as...
View ArticleCocktails: Harry’s New York Bar 75002
Harry’s New York Bar is one of Paris’ longest serving cocktail joints, opened on Thanksgiving Day 1911. Everything here is old school. You won’t find artisan snacks or house made unicorn syrups. The...
View ArticleAperitivo: Lockwood 75002
Paris is not a great city for the art of Amaro, or the joys of a Campari Spritz, despite its reasonably close proximity to Italy. I have been served a €12 Negroni in a local ‘cocktail’ bar that was...
View ArticleSouvlaki: Filakia 75002
To be very clear, the Souvlaki at Filakia has positively nothing to do with Greek food. Unless the Greeks suddenly decided they dislike lamb. There are no Greek salads (that actually resemble Greek...
View ArticleJapanese: Rice and Fish 75002
Rice & Fish is a duo of Japanese restaurants, one dedicated to the art of the grill, one to the art of maki, both serving inexpensive bento boxes and a range of Japanese beers.Rice & Fish...
View ArticleKorean Fried Chicken: Hero 75002
If there is something missing on the Parisian food scene, it’s cool Asian food. Thankfully Hero has arrived. A dime-a-dozen in cities like Melbourne, London or NYC, Paris is distinctly lacking ‘hip’...
View ArticleFrench: Le Petit Vendôme 75002
Le Petit Vendome is the perfect place for a bustling, Auvergne-inspired, anti-light lunch. You need to shout to be heard in this charming inner city, blue collar bistro. At the height of lunch,...
View ArticleRamen: Hokkaido 75002
Hokkaido rules the roost as rue Saint-Anne’s best Ramen joint. To be fair, it is actually on Rue Chabanais – a much sleepier street perpendicular to rue Saint-Anne – but it still kills the competition...
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