Gramme Cafe is so new you can literally still smell the fresh paint on the outside walls of the establishment. I got the tip from a good friend who is a local here now, and whose wife hunts out the best haunts like the Sherlock Holmes of the Haute Marais. Initially stopping in for a […]
In the all-too cobbled quarter of Saint-Merri lies many a falafel pedlar. Some so good, that it’s often difficult to stray from the pursuit of such Jewish specialties. But there’s another Hebrew haunt, lurking only steps from its cornerstone neighbour, that churns out a different delicacy, and does so with poise. Miznon is chiefly a […]
A few years back, from the balcony of my Airbnb on Boulevard Beaumarchais, I noticed a freshly painted pastel-green terrace, that stuck out like an olive on a cheese board. That olive turned out to be Maison Plisson, my first stop of the day for coffee and breakfast. I returned recently to see how things […]