Paris Restaurants

With Parisian eateries now able to open their indoor spaces, I got to thinking about my favourite restaurant interiors. If you’re still fantasising over where you’ll eat your first few post-Covid Parisian meals, here are some gorgeous dining rooms to whet your appetite … La Tour d’Argent For a view like this, you’d happily sit […]

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This week sees the reopening of Paris’s café and restaurant terraces, after a hibernation of more than half a year. That means: Paris is slowly becoming Paris once more. Of course, Paris is about the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre and Notre-Dame and the various other architectural wonders that take your breath away. But as […]

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Cherries have a long and juicy history in Paris, going right back to the Ancient Roman era. After conquering the future City of Light in 52BC, those high-living Romans imported fancy new architecture, customs, fashions and food. Markets began to sell luscious orchard fruits, with cherries — which the Romans had brought back from Asia […]

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It was during a long-haul flight from Paris to Sydney, while bemoaning the skin-drying effects of airplane travel, that PR agent Kirsten Carriol had an a-ha moment that would change the course of her career. She thought about the lanolin that her South Australian farmer grandparents had slathered on all over, and about how her […]

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