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Small group tours – our group tours last three hours and cost 95€ per person, including all tastings. Tours are designed to be small and intimate with a maximum of six guests. Check our calendar of availability and visit our events booking page to reserve your place on a [...]

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Taste of Paris: Truffle butter brioche

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Paris Restaurants for Ringing in the New Year

By Meg Zimbeck · 13 Comments

The vast majority of Paris restaurants will be closed through January 2 (see our calendar of closures here), but a few will be open to help you celebrate the New Year. There are no bargains at this time of year, but we’ve broken down your options, most ranging from 90€ to (gasp!) 940€, and we’ve selected our top picks for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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Holiday Alert! Most Paris restaurants close between Christmas & New Year’s

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The vast majority of Paris restaurants will be closed from before Christmas until after the New Year, with many reopening on January 3. To help you navigate this tricky period, we’ve contacted the restaurants in Our Paris Guide and have compiled a detailed calendar of restaurant closures.

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Taste of Paris: Truffles & marrow

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Taste of Paris: Spaghetti & truffles

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Five Great Places for Sunday Dinner

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Judging by the listings in our own Guide to Paris, at least half of Paris restaurants are closed on Sunday. Visitors to Paris, including veteran restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila, are continually confounded by the number of closed doors on dimanche. To help our readers find options that are open, we created [...]

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Taste of Paris: Puff pastry with fresh truffle

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The 2011 Bûches de Noël

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Ho ho ho! We hope that you’ve enjoyed counting down the days before Christmas with a new Bûche de Noël every morning. Our final cake, boasting edible fungus and a silver saw, comes from Pierre Hermé. Happy holidays, everyone!

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Celebrating the holidays in Paris restaurants

Celebrating Christmas in Paris Restaurants

By Meg Zimbeck · 2 Comments

The vast majority of Paris restaurants will be closed for Christmas (many from December 24 to January 2), but a few will be open and serving holiday meals. We’ve rounded up the best options, ranging from crêpes to crazy-expensive, and we’ve selected our top picks for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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Taste of Paris: Mont Blanc

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Taste of Paris: Sweet chestnut mountain

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Bûche de Noël Teaser

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Salt & Pepa have reunited to rap about this year’s crop of Bûches de Noël.

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Our Guide to Wild Game in Paris

Our Guide to Game Season in Paris

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Game season is a special time in Paris restaurants, with gibier à plumes (wild birds) arriving in late Autumn and gibier à poils (hare, boar or deer) turning up in the early winter. For those who aren’t quite sure how to play the game, we’ve compiled some resources to help guide you through the forest of options.

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Thanksgiving in Paris

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Haven’t sorted out your Thanksgiving holiday plans yet? No need to freak out. We’ve rounded up a few resources to help our American readers, as well as any locals who’ll be sharing the table this year.

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Our Guide to Paris Wine Shops

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Whether you favor organic wines from small producers or the big names of Bordeaux and Burgundy, you are never far from a good bottle of wine in Paris.

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Five Great for Groups

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In Paris, where a restaurant’s popularity seems to be inversely related to the number of seats, dining in a big group isn’t easy. Try booking for ten at a twenty-seat spot and you’re likely to be laughed right off the phone. But don’t despair – there are a handful of Paris restaurants that can welcome groups with excellent food and reasonable prices. Here are our favorites.

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