Hey You! Here's some photos of my favorite street in Paris, Rue Montorgeuil. LET's be FACEBOOK FRIENDS. Read more after the jump...read more[...]
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Yanique Francis
THRIFT SHOPPING AT PORTE DE VANVES Porte de Vanves has one of Paris Best flea markets, it's a medium sized treasure chest mix of bargain and antique items. If you're visiting Paris and want to go to a local flea market here you've no doubt heard of Marche aux Puce St. Ouen at Porte de Cliancourt - but today I want to share with you another flea market - it's a smaller less popular flea market in the south of Paris 14th arrondissement called Marche aux Puce de la Porte de Vanves. I[...]
For this installation of "the plate": I stopped into Hotel Amour this past Sunday after a brief "tour de force" of the neighborhood Flea market shopping along Rue des Martyrs in the 9th arr. I was in search of a leather sofa (small enough to fit in my apartment, and cheap enough to fit my wallet). Needless to say thrift shopping in one of Paris' most hip and trendy qautiers; this turned out to be not a very successful venture. So after settling on buying a pair of vintage Argentinean made l[...]
I finally tried this new dim sum restaurant in Paris yesterday for lunch called Dim Sum Co. Originally, due to my hectic work load I had planned on skipping lunch. Later, as I gave in to the hunger and a free invitation from a friend to pay for my lunch, we entered at around noon-ish to an empty restaurant (every other time I've walked by it's packed). I passed by a young chef wrapping some sort of rolls to our right, that looked like a scene out of Iron Chef. When we got seated an[...]
Paris has no shortage of chinese restaurants but for our latest installment in "The Plate" post series, we stopped by one of my fave soup and noodles joint in Paris; Happy Noodles in the 3rd arrondissement. Happy Noodles is about fresh made Chinese noodles. Right before your eyes ( if you want to see the whole thing from start to finish) you'll see the dough getting measured, mixed and kneaded then stretched into noodles for your soup. Read more after the jump...read more[...]
Mama Shelter Paris is more than a trendy Parisian Hotel ? I?ve discovered it has a cool restaurant, terrace and cozy ambiance to lunch, dine or take a break in the Pere Lachaise area. Last week I had the opportunity to circulate around the 20th arrondisement of Paris a bit. In between meetings I was starving and trying to find a place to lunch off the hunger pains, and Mama Shelter popped up on my iPhone GPS in my search to find the nearest restaurant. I've heard of Mama Shelter befor[...]