Phyllis Flick
Blogger Buzz: Le Fooding celebrates its 10th birthday with an all-star lineup of chefs
Sep 1st
Le Fooding celebrates their 10th anniversary this October with an incredible lineup of 18 of Paris’s best chefs who will take turns cooking for 72 hours non-stop in homage to ‘La Marmite Perpetuelle” –the continuously bubbling pot– a reference to Madame De Marme’s 18th century establishment on what is now the rue des Grands Augustins, where she sold capons simmered in a large pot over a fire that never went out. Legion says that the fire lasted nearly 100 years and more than 300,000 capons were cooked, one after another, in the same stock.
Here is the schedule:
October 1
00h00- 4h00 : Inaki Aizpitarte (Le Chateaubriand) ; 4h – 8h : Yves Camdeborde (Le Comptoir du Relais) ; 8h – 12h : Christian Etchebest (La Cantine du Troquet) ; 12h – 16h : Alberto Herraiz (Fogon) ; 16h – 20h : Stéphane Jégo (L’Ami Jean) ; 20h – 00h : William Ledeuil (Ze Kitchen Galerie)
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Blogger Buzz: the reopening of Spring in Paris
Aug 15th
To say that the reopening of Daniel Rose’s Spring, in its bigger, more upscale location, has been getting a lot of attention would be a definite understatement. The pre-opening press was a feeding frenzy as journalists, bloggers (myself included) and food forums all wondered when Spring II would finally open and more importantly how they would get a reservation.
That day finally came on 14 July, or Bastille Day as Americans call it, and ever since there has been no shortage of press, including a thorough accounting by Meg Zimbeck for Blackbook and a piece by Alexander Lobrano in the New York Times blog The Moment.
This second coming of Spring is more polished than the original—the pocket-sized restaurant on the rue de la Tour d‘Auvergne in Paris’s 9th arrondissement where Daniel Rose, the young chef from Chicago, working alone in his tiny open kitchen, charmed French critics with his modern take on French cooking.
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Blogger Buzz: Asafumi Yamashita’s Three Star Vegetables
Jul 14th
I’ve wanted to go to Le Kolo, Asafumi Yamashita’s vegetable garden and table d’hôte, located about 45 minutes from Paris in the Yvelines, ever since I read about it in Wasabi, sometime last year. For someone who goes out of their way to find interesting local products, Yamashita’s garden sounded fascinating.
He grows remarkable Japanese vegetables like Kabu (white turnips), hinona (long purple turnips), komatsuma (similar to spinach), beautiful white and purple eggplants, snap peas, micro tomatoes and other unusual vegetables in his garden in Chapet and hand delivers them twice a week to a very select group of chefs in Paris. The group is so exclusive that you can count its members on two hands and they include three-star chefs like Pascal Barbot, Pierre Gagnaire, and Eric Briffard.
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Blogger Buzz: Caffé dei Cioppi, a delightful Italian restaurant in Paris
Jul 3rd
Walking down the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, past the discount shoe shops and banal looking cafés, looking for number 159, it’s hard to imagine that anyone would want to eat outside in this neighborhood. This stretch of road, like many busy thoroughfares, doesn’t have much to recommend. But turn left or right on a good number of streets and you’ll find a likable neighborhood, often overlooked by visitors.
And so it is with the Caffé dei Cioppi. Enter the doorway of number 159 and instead of a storefront you’ll find a secluded alleyway lined with cobblestones and clinging vines. The unexpected loveliness of it all in contrast to the street you left behind makes it all the more appealing.
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Blogger Buzz: Mary, Authentic Italian Ice Cream in Paris
Jun 16th
I never intended to write about ice cream. At this time of year, everyone writes about the best ice cream places in Paris, but aside from Grom, the Italian gelato maker who moved on to the rue de Seine earlier this year, the ice cream scene hasn’t changed all that much for most of the time I have lived in Paris. With nothing new to add, I didn’t feel very inspired.
That is, until @thatparisguy announced that @tavallai (this all took place on Twitter in case you aren’t following) had uncovered a new gelato place in the 3rd and was claiming that it was the best in Paris.
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Blogger Buzz: Urfa Dürüm, Kurdish Sandwiches in Paris
Jun 13th
Sometimes you find a little bit of happiness in the strangest of places and yesterday I found my happiness on the rue de Faubourg Saint Denis, at Urfa Dürüm, a tiny hole in the wall serving marvellous sandwiches.
To be honest, I wasn’t exactly charmed by my first encounter with this neighbourhood when I arrived in Paris nearly ten years ago. It seemed a long way from the Paris I knew and loved (think the touristy 5th and 6th) and struck me as dirty and run down. The neighbourhood has undeniably changed in the last few years as more and more bobos move in, but perhaps my view of Paris has changed as well.
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Blogger Buzz: Street Food Soirées in Paris II – 5 July at Batofar
Jun 9th
M.I.A.M continues its summer “Street Food Soirées“, where some of Paris’s most renowned chefs serve up their renditions of “la cuisine de la rue”.
The next soirée has been announced for the 5th of July and the theme this time around is Fish and Chips, the beloved British take-away dish which incidently turns 150 years old this year.
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Blogger Buzz: Yogurt Bars Are Popping Up in Paris
Jun 6th
It seems that yogurt bars are becoming quite trendy in Paris with a newly opened yogurt bar in Saint Germain and pop-up yogurt bars appearing at both Colette and the Bon Marché just in time for summer.
It Mylk, a cute boutique recently opened by two young fashionistas on the rue de l’Ancienne Comédie, serves fresh and frozen yogurt with a nice selection of toppings, all made with first-rate ingredients including local farm-fresh milk from la ferme de Viltain, seasonal fruit, granola, homemade compotes, crumble, chocolate and more.
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Blogger Buzz: Omnivore in NYC, 4-5 June 2010
May 31st
For those of you who didn’t get into Frenchie on your last Paris trip, you might be able try Gregory Marchand’s cooking this coming weekend as Omnivore is bringing a team of young, talented French chefs to New York for two nights of cooking, master classes and a street party on 4-5 June.
Gregory Marchand of Frenchie, Petter Nilsson of La Gazetta, Gilles Choukroun of MBC (all from Paris), Eric Guérin of La Mare aux Oiseaux in Saint Joachim, Philippe Hardy of Le Mascaret in Blainville-sur-mer, and Jean-Luc Tartarin from Le Havre will be cooking along side American chefs like David Kinch, Dan Barber and Paul Liebrandt.
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Blogger Buzz: Street Food Soirées in Paris
May 19th
M.I.A.M, a free urban magazine, is organising a series of “Street Food” soirées all throughout the summer with some of Paris’s most renowned chefs serving their renditions of “la cuisine de la rue”. The first will be held on June 1st and will be dedicated to that all-American classic—the Burger.
Three-star chef Yannick Alléno, will be serving up his world famous burger, which is made with two cuts of beef—chuck and rib—and supplied by Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec of Le Couteau d’Argent, a butchershop in Asnières, a suburb just outside Paris.
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Blogger Buzz: a Unique Monday Night Dining Experience in Paris
May 16th
Catch budding stars of the food world, one Monday night a month in Paris, at Les Lundis de Fulgurances, a unique concept created by Sophie Cornibert and Hugo Hivernat, which invites the second in command of the world’s top restaurants to break out on their own and create their own cuisine for 50 guests in Paris.
The first “second” chef was pretty impressive with Sam Miller, René Redzepi’s sous-chef at Noma, one of the world’s top restaurants. The 8 course menu, paired with wines choosen by Noma’s sommelier, was only 75 €, so quite a bargain.
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Blogger Buzz: Ralph’s Restaurant, the Newest American in Paris
May 15th
Ralph Lauren’s eponymous new restaurant Ralph’s created a lot of buzz in Paris, long before it ever opened. It was everywhere in the French press, tweeted about on Twitter, fuelled by the New York Times report that Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group had been brought in for consulting, and that the French kitchen team, including a chef from the Bristol, had spent a week in New York learning to make American classics like burgers and fried chicken. They wrote that Michael Romano, the chef, partner and chief of culinary development for Union Square Hospitality, was brought to Paris to work with the French chefs right up to the opening. For once, Paris would have a real American restaurant, and not just the cheap Disneyseque imitations that serve lousy to mediocre American fare.
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