Last year if you were at le Carmen until it closed, you could hear shouts of « Let’s go to l’Embuscade! Who’s for l’Embuscade? » Once there, you could see a family-run rum bar, with a TV broadcasting RFO, a child sleeping on the sofa, and some drinks served with strange twists–like octopus-infused rum, or turtle penis rum. And if you didn’t believe it was real octopus, the guy show would show you the bottle with the actual octopus inside.
This bold new entry into the SoPi dining scene is dedicated to reviving the most sacred of all cooking methods—call it the Renaissance of braising. The interior, a blend of retro-mod and contemporary-industrial, is sleek, sexy, unabashedly swanky, and the food is cutting-edge
Since opening its doors in December 2010, Kooka Boora has already created a buzz amongthe bobo clientele of the 9th and coffee connoisseurs in search of the best ‘long black’or ‘flat white’ in town.
Behind the distinctly grotty place de Clichy hides this rather unusual establishment, a breath of fresh air after the touristy galleries of Montmartre. The building itself was a legendary dance hall and brothel in the 1920s.
Earlier this year, the opening of the Trianon on boulevard de Rochechouart by Julien Labrousse (l’hotel du Nord) was a huge sensation. Everybody was talking about this lavish venue, which quickly became one of the fashion week hotspots (APC, be …
New Pigalle dive bar gem: foosball and huge patio. One more excellent reason to spend the night in Pigalle: Jean – the same guy behind le Sans Souci – has opened le Mansart.
Cocktail bar in South Pigalle: Another great new reason to hang out in the South Pigalle area.
Established in the Hotel Scheffer-Renan (house of the Dutch painter Scheffer) in a neighbourhood not far from the former cabarets, this museum is an homage to Parisian romantic artists like Georges Sand.
Young hip Art gallery in Abesse.Exhibited,among others, Peter Doherty and vice pictures.