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The first Saturday of October each year is Nuit Blanche. Over the years we’ve seen some stunning installations – dotted about around the city. Always a good weekend to go.

Here’s a roll call of good Frenchy stuff though this is very much in draft – there is MUCH more to add.

L’Insitut du Monde Arabe. Don’t think I could ever tire of Nouvel’s aperture carpet wall. Vagenende, 142 Blvd St Germain. Gorgeous place. Artichoke carpaccio, tick! Pouilly Fume, tick! On that strip of classic St Germain brasseries. Gaite Lyrique – new digital art gallery in an old theatre. Good. Drinks at Le Baron Rouge, 1 Rue Théophile Roussel. Time to get busy! Dinner at La Gazzetta, 29 Rue de Cotte – slightly experimental, but underplayed. Delicate dishes, glamourously retro interior. Resort ambience. Le Bistro Paul Bert, 16 rue de Paul Bert, 1lth – great street for lurking about when hungry. Unless you haven’t booked in anywhere in which case you’ll be lurking, hungrily all night. The Pause Cafe near-ish Bastille – nice spot, kept thinking of swimming pools – was it the tiles? Why can’t we have lovely deep terraces outside like the French? Methinks its because we Brits get within a sniff of alcohol, get overexcited and ruin it for ourselves.

Ile Sequin, Pont de Sevres

Went to the end of the line to a restaurant on an island for Saturday lunch. Nice modern park – it had grass! Grass in a French park! Curious architecture. Margiela Hotel – La Maison Champs Elysees

Hmm – we wanted a posh drink in a posh new hotel. It was a toss up between the Margiela one and the Royal Monceau, perhaps we made the wrong decision. I think you could soak up a little more ambience if you went to a Margiela boutique. Nice exploded tiles on the floor. Little bit of play on scale here and there. We wanted obscure Japanese fashion and strange glassware but no, nothing. La Nuit Blanche 

The Bars:

The Classic: Harry’s Bar 

Harry’s Bar, 5 rue Daunu


The cosy: Le Bubar 

3 rue des Tournelles

The wild: Le Fanfaron 

6 rue de la Main d’Or

The Bistrots:

The local: Le Progrès 


The hip: Chez Jeannette 

47 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis – 75010 Paris


The central: Le Fumoir 

6 Rue de l’Amiral de Coligny  75001 Paris


And now for OOH LA LA PARIS!

Le Bar du Bristol 

112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré


Le Bar de L’Hôtel du Louvre 

Place André Malraux


Le Bar du Raphaël, 7ème ciel 

17 Avenue Kléber


Bar 228 – Le Bar du Meurice 

228 rue de Rivoli



