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Café des Musées for me is a quintessence of a perfect French brasseire – with rough décor, unpretentious atmosphere, menu changing according to the season and a great chief. I am sure you would pass it by without noticing (as I have many times before!) but this truly Parisian place offers the best food at Marais at very affordable prices.
No need to feel depressed that summer is over. It’s time to go to Paris! We have found 5 reasons why Paris is the best place for you this October.
1. Romance – there is no better time to fall in love with Paris or in Paris than autumn. Most of the tourists are gone, local people are back from their month long holidays in the south and everything seems back to normal so you can finally enjoy the city as it should be. With foggy weather and mysterious atmosphere Paris is on its best form in October. Just perfect time for a little romance. See you in Paris then ;)
The macarons I brought from Paris are all gone but I managed to photograph them for you first.
Pastry, and recently macarons, are the only things that may make me queue. I have been a bit better at waiting in a line since I came to England and have followed this second favourite sport of the Brits (number 1 is in my onion watching rugby in a pub on a Saturday afternoon) but I am still rubbish and get very impatient immediately if there are 3 people in front of me.
But I could queue in Paris any time to get my deux mille- feuilles (so much more that just A mille-feuilles!) or few vanilla macarons from Pierre Hermé.
Le Garde Robe(41 rue de l’Arbe Sec) is tiny – with only few tables outside and inside – but don’t let the size mislead you. They serve probably the best food in the neighbourhood for as little as 15 Euro for a 3 course meal!
The owner who is also the boss and the chef makes sure that everything is prepared fresh and with seasonal ingredients he finds that day. He is big on vegetables which he serves beautifully sliced and drizzled with nice olive oil and sprinkled with salt flakes.
For me Merci-Merci is the closest to the perfect store it can possible get.
It was open in early 2009 and since then has attracted attention of cool shoppers around Europe. Merci has created a new, modern approach to consumerism – they support recycling, teach people how to re-use what you already have, find ways to create cool items from plastic bottles and give their profits to a charity in Madagascar.
Usually, I don’t want much more from life than spending a nice sunny weekend in Paris.
Below an ideal weekend in my favourite city.
Saturday
I would start with a little breakfast at Merci-Merci (open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 till 20:00)– a new concept store located at Boulevard Beamarche 111, close to the Saint-Sébastien – Froissart metro station.
