Paris: 4 Left Bank Recommendations
Tourism booms on the rive gauche. It’s the side of the river perennially thronged with crowds, students and the sound of PA systems booming from les Bateaux Mouche. Fans of the lost generation will...
View ArticleSummer: Wanderlust 75013
Wanderlust is an enormous bar, restaurant, club and terrace that sits right on the Seine, nestled inside the Cité de la Mode et du Design. Space comes at a premium in Paris – perhaps why its...
View ArticleSwimming: Piscine Joséphine Baker 75013
Piscine Joséphine Baker is a floating swimming pool on the Seine River not far from Bercy. When the temperature rises the roof contracts to make it one of the few open air pools in Paris, but the key...
View ArticleArt: Musée Rodin 75007
Musée Rodin Paris is home to one of the largest collections of Auguste Rodin’s works, including perhaps his most iconic, Le Penseur (The Thinker). Nearly 300 works can be found in the actual ‘museum’,...
View ArticleTapas: Dans Les Landes 75005
Dans les Landes is the perfect spot for southwest-style tapas, shared at communal tables whilst imbibing inexpensive wines. There are few restaurants that compel me to leave the right bank, but Dans...
View ArticleCocktails: WOS Bar 75005
WOS Bar is a fine spirits pub for people that love serious drinks without any attitude. The sheer volume of amazing booze is overwhelming. Over 100 whiskies, countless rums, tequilas and vodkas,...
View ArticlePho: L’Indochine 75013
L’Indochine is a non-descript Vietnamese establishment down the sleepier end of Avenue de Choisy. If popularity is the judge of a restaurant, then the best Pho in the 13th arrondissement is down the...
View ArticleDumplings: Le Tricotin 75013
Affordable with a side of hectic is the only way to describe this vast dining hall. Filled with grand banquet tables of Asian families sharing a Saturday afternoon meal. I generally don’t enjoy ‘Asian’...
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