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Stop. Photo © Ron Fox


paris street scene

Stop. Photo © Ron Fox


 
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00

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MICHELIN EXPANDS HORIZONS

The Michelin Red Guide, recently accused of losing touch with the changing world of French cuisine by influential Le Figaro critic François Simon, seems to have taken the criticism to heart and has given a coveted star to Yam’Tcha, a tiny restaurant that does not fit the usual Michelin bill of fare: it opened only a year ago, is run by a young woman chef, specializes in Chinese-influenced dishes and – blasphemy of blasphemies in France! (except that tea is currently très à la mode) – serves tea with food. Chef Adeline Grattard has worked in Hong Kong and at gourmet French restaurant Astrance. Otherwise, few radical changes were made to the guide. Most notably, L’Auberge du Vieux Puits in the southwestern village of Fontjoncouse was elevated to three-star status.

 
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One-minute Paris: Birdsong on the Canal Saint Martin at dusk.

 
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Munch, ou L’‘Anti-Cri’ PDF Print E-mail
Art - Temporary Exhibitions
Written by Heidi Ellison   
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00
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“Vêtements Etendus à Åsgårdstrand” (1902). Photo © Thomas Widerberg © The Munch-Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Adagp, Paris 2010

 

Exhibitions at the Pinacothèque de Paris often approach a subject from an oblique angle, and “Munch, ou L’‘Anti-Cri’” (“Munch or the Anti-‘Scream’”) is no exception. As the title indicates, you ...

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Chez Catherine PDF Print E-mail
Restaurants - Contemporary
Written by Richard Hesse   
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00
Chez Catherine restaurant, Paris

Great value for money at 10 euros less.

 

Chez Catherine has taken a bit of stick from the reviewers in recent weeks, and in a sense one can see why, as it is much of a muchness with the likes of L'Arôme and ETC, which both ...

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Césars PDF Print E-mail
Film - Flash News
Written by Nick Hammond   
Monday, 01 March 2010 00:00
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Un Prophète has been sweeping film awards, including the French Césars and the British BAFTAs.

 

“A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.” So goes the biblical dictum. Well, not any longer, because Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophète has just received the ultimate ...

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