Benoit Paris
In the year 1912, the world’s largest ship made her maiden voyage sailing from Southampton. Meanwhile in Paris, a butcher in the 4th arrondissement purchased a neighboring restaurant and gave it his name: Benoit. Who would have imagined that one hundred…
“Maxim’s: Mirror of Parisian Life”
In the greatest of the world’s cities, there exist certain restaurants that become larger than life, serving as theaters for that city and its more flamboyant players. For years, supper clubs such as El Morocco and the Stork defined the joie de vivre of…
We’ll Always Have Paris
The first time I went to Paris without a chaperone, I wandered the Left Bank, clutching a dog-eared copy of Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” in one hand, a baguette in the other. I was a walking cliché of an American student in Paris. Trooping…
Hotel Marais Bastille: Paris, France
Ideally situated at the edge of the Marais on the tree-lined Boulevard Richard Lenoir, the Marais Bastille is within easy walking distance of the Bastille Opera House and the Picasso Museum. A three-star establishment with four-star service and…
Paris, France
As Hemingway wrote, "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
Hotel Bel-Ami: Paris, France
In a city notorious for les petites chambres, surely this room was the smallest of them all. We’d only just landed in Paris after a long-delayed flight—and now here we were, cramped in a dormer room with slanting ceilings and a bed that kept hitting our…