Meg Zimbeck has written more than 600 reviews of Paris restaurants, bars, hotels and shops. She’s served as the Paris editor for both Budget Travel and BlackBook and has contributed to Food & Wine, SAVEUR, the Wall Street Journal, Gridskipper, the BBC’s Olive magazine, and the seat-pocket magazines of United, Virgin Trains, and Gulf [...]

Originally from Cleveland, Barbra worked in professional kitchens for more than a decade as a pastry cook, first in Colorado and then in New York where she worked for Jonathan Waxman and Gabrielle Hamilton, among others.  She started blogging about food during a long stay in Paris in 2008 and hasn’t stopped. [...]

Alexander Lobrano was European Correspondent for Gourmet magazine from 1999 until its recent closing, and has written about food and travel for Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Departures, Conde Nast Traveler, and many other publications in the [...]

Chrisos (aka Christophe Wakim) works as a quantitative analyst for a leading brokerage firm in Paris. He loves discovering new places and sharing his restaurant experiences with others. ChrisoScope started in 2006, when he had plenty of spare time, mostly as a digest for a small number of friends. A couple of [...]

Clotilde Dusoulier is the 30-year-old Parisienne behind the award-winning food blog Chocolate & Zucchini. Born and raised in Paris, she discovered her passion for food while working in California as a software engineer. She started her blog in 2003 and its success has allowed her to start a career as a full-time food writer. She is the [...]

John Talbott was surely born in France of a chef father and food critic mother but spirited away to a forced childhood in America where he learned to cook, write and eat. At 18, he returned for a summer and has been in love with France and Paris ever since. He began [...]

For more than thirty years, Julot has been looking for the best food in Paris. Since 2006, he has been sharing his experience on websites like Chowhound (where he writes as “Souphie”), and working privately as a gastronomic advisor to visiting foodies. While primarily a writer, Julot has recently decided that photography [...]

Patricia Wells is an internationally recognized cookbook author, restaurant critic and teacher who divides her time between Paris and Provence. Her book Patricia Wells at Home in Provence (1996) won the James Beard Award for Best International Cookbook. She served as restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune from 1980-2007 and for L’Express [...]

Phyllis Flick is an American living in Paris who has written about Paris and French life for various publications, including the Time Out Eating and Drinking Guide to Paris. She has worked as a culinary translator for the English version of the Pudlo Guide to Paris and France.  Formally co-host of the [...]