In April of this year, Tribeca became the proud home to a top-notch new French restaurant, Racines NY. Named after its Parisian counterpart, Racines NY stays true to the same tradition of picking only the freshest, local and seasonally appropriate ingredients. The...
"My plan is this: I'm gonna eat some f*ing cheese and I'm gonna get drunk and...you are always guaranteed to have a really good time." When I heard the intro to this episode of The Layover with Anthony Bourdain, I knew it was going to be good. If you can overlook a...
I tend to avoid French food when I'm in New York. It's generally very pricey and anticlimactic. I'm flying back to France on Sunday, so this was particularly odd timing for me to decide to hit up two French restaurants in one week. But I'm glad I did. A sampling of...
In France, Mariage Frères is synonymous with the art of tea. The brand is as well-known in the world of tea as Kleenex is for tissues. The Mariage family's first tea company was established in Paris on June 1, 1854, although the family's work in sourcing tea from...
The last weekend of November, some friends and I headed out to our house in the Morbihan, in Brittany, for our own little Thanksgiving celebration... and Christmas! November brought amazingly beautiful weather this year in Brittany. We had several days with clear,...
This week's get-to-know-Paris challenge is to try a new restaurant! We get into the habit of going to the same places over and over. Branch out! My full list and crème de la crème list are always a good place to start for ideas. I even keep a list of restaurants I...
Chocolate Tasting –What’s That? Recently, I attended a dégustation de chocolat (chocolate tasting) at Un Dimanche à Paris on the historic cobblestoned Cour du Commerce Saint André in Paris’s 6th arrondissement. What on earth is a chocolate tasting, you ask? Well, that...
In December, I took a trip back to the U.S. for Christmas and New Year’s, dividing my time among New York City, Boston and its suburbs and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. As I am often asked for New York and Boston restaurant recommendations, I decided to share them here....
I have updated my Mini Guide to Paris, my Full List of Restaurant & Bar Recommendations, my Crème de la Crème Restaurant List and also my Bar Recommendations List. View them online or download a ready-to-print PDF! Below are some of the new...
There is something about Brittany that keeps drawing me back. Le Select, Nantes Its mix of rugged and calming coastline, inviting villages both seaside and inland with meticulously cared-for homes and gardens, friendly and vivacious people, mile after mile of hiking...
