Tag: paris
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Château de Versailles
On this trip to Paris, since we had almost a week, we decided to spend a full day at Versailles and enjoy the sights leisurely. I(Chris) went there many years ago with my mum but I cannot find any photos from that visit. The Château de Versailles is one of those must-see tourist attraction in France. But…
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ze kitchen galerie, Paris
ze kitchen galerie was the restaurant which kicked off our little unintended 8-star, 4-day gastronomic tour in Paris. IT’s friends booked this restaurant for us because it was the first night when all of us arrived in Paris and the restaurant is within walking distance of where we were staying in the Latin Quarter. We did…
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Alain Passard’s L’Arpège, Paris
Our 1-week stay in Paris was not meant to be a gastronomic tour. But IT asked her Parisian friends, D and C, who work in the food industry, to make reservations for us at several restaurants. In four days, we ate in four restaurants with a combined total of eight Michelin stars. We did not know in…
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Astier de Villatte (remix) – Paris
Astier de Villatte is a Parisian store that makes and sells ceramics, candles and other carefully crafted everyday objects. The photos may look familiar. That is because all these pictures had appeared in an earlier post (click here). . In that post, they were only slightly processed to appear as natural as possible. Here, I am…
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Passage des Panoramas, Paris
We came to the Passage des Panoramas for the restaurant, Passage 53, which we posted earlier here. The Passage des Panoramas is a roofed commercial passageway located in the IIe arrondissement, of Paris between the Montmartre boulevard to the North and Saint-Marc street to the south. According to Wikipedia: It is one of the earliest venues…
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Au bon couscous, Paris
Au Bon couscous is one of many touristy restaurants in the Latin Quarter, located just around the corner from our apartment. On one of the several rainy days in that week while we were in Paris, we ducked in Au bon couscous for a quick lunch. There are many restaurants (Greek, Italian, French, Asian, Indian,…