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HOW DOES THE SONG GO? Well, who doesn’t, and for that matter easily navigable with its 20 districts “I LOVE PARIS IN THE summer, autumn and winter are pretty or arrondissements spiraling out like SPRINGTIME…’ darn good too. an escargot from the central 1st. The legendary Seine River bisects the city The City of Light shines like a romantic with the urbane ‘right bank’ or rive beacon year round with the finest of droite being north, and the chic, artistic cuisine, fashion, lifestyle and culture, ‘left bank’ or being south. and yet, this ancient, fascinating and Bienvenue à Paris! beautiful city is extremely walkable and

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• Excepting Fashion Week, there is • Cabs are fine for short hops but • Service is always included, but leave no bad time to visit Paris, but bear the métro is excellent for longer a small tip by rounding up to the in mind that during peak spring journeys, buy a one-week ‘carte nearest euro or two season the city is swamped and in orange’ pass, or a ‘carnet’ of ten August the entire population goes tickets on holiday, or so it seems • Coffee: café is espresso, allongé is long espresso and café crème (not • The handy Vélib bike scheme has café au lait) is coffee with milk • CDG to town: around 45 mins / €45 stations every 300m – €1/day, €5/ by cab; 30 mins / €8,70 by RER week via credit card + PIN / train; or 45-60 mins / €9,40 by www.velib.paris.fr

Roissybus • The int’l dialing code for Paris is +33 1, all local calls begin with 01 and mobiles with 06. To call emergency from a cell phone dial 112 • Un peu de politesse, mes chers, • Even locals carry the fab little red always bid hello and goodbye when Plan de Paris métro n’ maps all-in- entering shops, bars and restaurants one. Pick it up at any news kiosk

• Shops, services and restaurants generally close on Sunday, so use this day for museums and activities

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Lorenz Bäumer / JEWELLERY DESIGNER

Legendary haute jewellery designer Lorenz is famed for his spectacular one-off pieces utilizing rare and precious stones, which are often inspired by the natural world. In addition to his custom work and signature collections, for over 20 years from his beautiful salon and atelier in the Place Vendome, he also created exclusive collections for Chanel, and since 2009 is Artistic Director for Fine Jewellery for Louis Vuitton.

www.lorenzbaumer.com

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Lorenz Bäumer / JEWELLERY DESIGNER

1) WHAT’S THE ONE THING 3) WHERE DO YOU GO 5) WHAT ARE YOUR THREE EVERY VISITOR TO PARIS FOR A PAMPER SESSION, FAVORITE SHOPS IN PARIS MUST DO AND WHY? MASSAGE OR SPA AND WHAT DO YOU LOVE TREATMENT? ABOUT THEM? Definitely Place Vendome. It is a wonderful place to go, a reference For me there is only Catherine Leroy, My three favourite shops in Paris are in luxury and especially jewelry. This who just opened her spa, 6,rue de la Urban Solutions for the best bikes is my playground with the view that Trémoille in the 8th arrondissment. in the city, (my favorite means of I have from my salons. Something She does acupuncture and massage, transportation for Paris), Plume et I never get tired of. I also happen so I love to visit her at the end of a Bille where I find the special Namiki to own 150 historic photographs busy week. I feel totally rejuvenated: a pens from Japan that I love for writing dating back to 1853 of all the special million years younger! ! notes, and La Maison du Miel for the moments recorded on film from the most incredible selections of honeys. magic square. Come and visit the Since then we don’t have sugar at collection on your next journey! home any more. 4) WHAT ARE 3 OF YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANTS www.urbansolutions.fr IN PARIS AND WHY? WHAT www.maisondumiel.com

2) WHAT DO YOU MOST DISHES DO YOU ORDER AT

LOVE ABOUT PARIS THESE PLACES? AND WHY? Alain Ducasse in all his special Paris is the city of inspiration, locations: from the Plaza to Rech to museums, amazing craftsmanship… Les Lyonnais. Kinugawa for Japanese a city that pushes you beyond normal food. Jean-Paul Hévin for his boundaries. I am very fond of the “tartelette au chocolat” and Paparazzi Museum des Arts Décoratifs where for the best pizzas in town. 4 of my creations are on permanent display. There is always something Paparazzi / 6 Square l’Opéra Louis special happening there, that I can use Jouvet / +33 1 40 07 92 56 for my next piece of jewelry. Reading www.alain-ducasse.com is another of my passions and I love www.kinugawa.fr to discover new books at Galignani www.jphevin.com library, where Bertrand Pizzin gives the best advice.

www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr www.galignani.coms

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MURIEL GRATEAU LE RELAIS DE L’ENTRECÔTE LE ROYAL MONCEAU Shopping Dining Hotel

Divine and dramatic, but simple It’s not glamorous, and yes, you will This Raffles-run glory-bower has been porcelain tableware, plus a rainbow almost certainly have to queue, but touched with the Starck stick, and of fine linens and staggeringly chic the two helpings of thinly sliced steak, strikes firmly on the luxe gong with jewelry. Muriel’s eye is always flawless sublime ‘secret recipe’ green sauce, a très contempo ring. Choose from Il and her monochrome store a magnet fabulous shoestring fries, plus amiable Carpaccio, Le Cuisine and Le Bar Long for the city’s most stylish denizens waitresses are just too priceless. Steak and you’ll be well fed, watered and left and frites for a king! feeling awfully exclusive. 37 rue de Beaune, 7th / M: Rue du Bac / +33 1 40 20 42 82 15 , 8th / M: Franklin D. 37 avenue Hoche, 8th / M: Ternes / Roosevelt / +33 1 49 52 07 17 / go +33 1 42 99 88 00 www.murielgrateau.com early or queue www.leroyalmonceau.com www.relaisentrecote.fr

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HÔTEL FOUQUET’S RALPHS LE BAR DU PLAZA BARRIÈRE Dining ATHÉNÉE Hotel Bar Fight for a summer terrace perch or A gold-dusted, regal residence with clubby salon table at Mr. Lauren’s The famous, ambient glow bar, an address to match. You are quite dandy paean to American classic luscious leather armchairs, wood literally smack bang in the middle of comfort cooking. It’s terribly BCBG, paneled walls and eye-watering prices the city on Avenue , with but it’s terribly lovely whether at are like manna to the city’s beautiful the Champs-Elysées and the Arc de lunch or supper. crowd who come to be scene and Triomphe within moments of your barely heard. Go late. 173 boulevard St Germain, 6th / door. With plush, very spacious rooms, M: St-Germain-des-Prés / Hotel du Plaza Athénée / butler service, garden, indoor pool, +33 1 44 77 76 00 25 avenue Montaigne, 8th / fitness hall, U-Spa and legendary M: Alma Marceau / +33 1 53 67 brasserie Fouquet’s included in the www.ralphlaurenstgermain.com 66 00 / daily 6-11pm / electro- picture, its all looking terribly rosy, rock Thu-Sat 11pm-2am or golden! www.bar-plaza-athenee-paris.com 46 avenue George V, 8th / SUR MESURE M: George V / +33 1 40 69 60 00 Dining www.fouquets-barriere.com Step into this white on white NISSIM DE CAMONDO spaceship for a galactic molecular Activity ride through all the latest techniques SAINTE-CHAPELLE in 2 Mich-starred chef Thierry Marx’s A wander around this truly beautiful Activity prolific repertoire. Yes, there is faffy house, complete with its original foam, but Marx’s devotion to healthy collection of C.18th art, furniture Is there a more celestial (and living is reflected in clean, sparkling and antiques, offers a unique romantic) chapel on the planet? The flavors and imaginative pairings like g l i m p s e i n t o t h e p a s t . A fa s c i n a t i n g utterly adorable C.13th upper chapel bean sprout and truffle risotto. little time capsule. with its ravishing stained glass is 251 rue St-Honoré, 1st / M: Tuileries / 63 rue de Monceau, 8th / breathtakingly exquisite. Try to go +33 1 70 98 73 00 / closed Sun-Mon M: Monceau / +33 1 53 89 06 50 / on a sunny day for maximum intake 10am-5pm / closed Mon-Tue of breath. www.mandarinoriental.com

4 boulevard du Palais, 1st / www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr M: Cité / +33 1 53 40 60 80 / Mar-Oct 9.30am-6pm, Nov-Feb 9am-5pm / closed daily 1-2pm

www.sainte-chapelle.monuments- nationaux.fr

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MERCI YAM’TCHA EXPERIMENTAL Shopping Dining COCKTAIL CLUB Bar Shop with a clear conscience at this Barely 20 seats, slightly erratic delightful concept store featuring a service and very tricky to book, but Tiny, sexy, young and funky, with vintage book café, home furniture and ex-Astrance chef Adeline Grattard plush, chandeliered vibe and tempting fragrance, plus new/vintage togs for delivers a gorgeously original Franco- drinks list, the ECC is a laboratory of kids and grownups with profits Oriental prix fixe of taste and texture. fine and rare spirits served with a little going to charity. tongue-in-chic, and a heck of a lot 4 rue Sauval, 1st / M: Les Halles / of flair. 111 boulevard Beaumarchais, 3rd / +33 1 40 26 08 07 / closed Mon-Tue M: Saint-Sébastien-Froissart / Mon- 37 rue Saint-Sauveur, 2nd / M: Sentier Sat 10am-8pm / +33 1 42 77 78 92 / +33 1 48 78 31 80 / 5pm-5am www.merci-merci.com LE MEURICE www.experimentalcocktailclub.com Lunch

LE CHATEAUBRIAND Alléno and Starck have turned this crystal, marble, gilt and mirror salon Dining into one of the city’s most fought-for

tables, but you will need to be sitting Gastro-vivants sell their kids for seats down when the bill comes. That said, in Iñaki Aizpitarte’s vibrant, exciting, the prix fixe lunch is the best value experimental bistro. If you like in town. adventure and the unknown on your plate, then book well ahead. 228 rue de Rivoli, 1st / M: Tuileries / +33 1 44 58 10 55 / closed Sat-Sun 129 avenue Parmentier, 11th / M: Goncourt / +33 1 43 57 45 95 www.lemeurice.com / closed Sun-Mon

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TAXIS SUNDAY PRICES

You’ve got more chance of hailing Shops, services and a good many €35 for a martini in hotel bars? C’est a pelican in Paris. If you are lucky restaurants are closed on Sunday – du vol organisé! Be prepared to enough to get one, your next quell insanity is this? haemorrhage cash realization will be that friendly cab drivers are as rare as friendly waiters

SERVICE

Any chance of getting my order before I expire? Probably not, and especially not if you’re not French

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MUSEUM PASS LUNCH

You will of course wish to visit the You could stand around with the rest of Paris hosts some of the world’s most and Musée d’Orsay but spring, the milling tourists watching Mr. Eiffel’s rarefied dining experiences, but apart summer and autumn the queues can be splendid tour de force as it goes through from the eye-watering cost, the sheer atrocious, and tempers simmer easily. its nightly spellbinding light show. For difficulty in reserving a table for dinner Book ahead to get the 2, 4 or 6-day those in the know, the very best way to can be infuriating. So, reeducate yourself Museum Pass delivered to your hotel and witness the spectacle is with a cocktail in to accept lunch as the main meal of the you’ll swan straight to the front of the your hand and a grandstand view on the day and you’ll take full advantage of queue (much to everyone’s annoyance). terrace of the Café de l’Homme. Salut! the city’s fantastic prix fixe deals, from It also gains you entry to scores of other magnificent Le Meurice to tiny www.restaurant-cafedelhomme.com wonderful museums too. Le fab! Le Comptoir du Relais. Bon appetit!

www.museums-of-paris.com

VAUX LE VICOMTE

The Museum Pass will help you to avoid CUISINE the queues at the Château de Versailles, In a city of such fine food it’s tempting but it really can’t protect you from the to simply wander from restaurant to abject swarms in spring and summer. If bistro without ever really knowing the two’s company, but thirty thousand is a components of the dishes and the origin crowd, why not consider the quieter and of the ingredients. Step forward Wendy glorious Vaux le Vicomte, the original Lyn, whose fabulous food tours illuminate inspiration for Versailles. In summer and charm in equal measure, and yes, you you can even dine within the candlelit get to eat just about everything you see grounds. Palatial peace! along the way! www.Vaux-le-vicomte.com www.thepariskitchen.com

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What better way to start your day than one of their delightful couple’s cocoons. the close by Tuileries Gardens to look in lovely St-Germain-des-Prés with a Rejuvenated? You simply can’t come to forward to (or if you prefer, supper at steaming cup of the signature, thick hot Paris and not shop for beautiful lingerie, ravishing Le Grand Vefours followed by a chocolate from , followed and just a short cab ride away awaits the stroll in the Palais Royale), the irresistible by a gentle amble along Rue Jacob’s incomparable Fifi Chachnil, for undies effect of Paris will become very apparent. pretty antique and décor shops (pop into with a built in knee-tremble! With your Ladurée for thigh defying macarons), purchases safely wrapped, make haste and be sure to stop off at one of Paris’ to the heavenly Sainte Chapelle, and best cultural secrets, the charming little then onto the perfect afternoon tea at Musée Eugène Delacroix, for a window The Four Seasons Hotel Georges V. Just into the C.19th romantic artist’s atelier, time for a quick wash and brush up at home, work and private garden. For a your hotel before dusk when you should relaxed, but terribly good lunch without take your table for cocktails at Café de a reservation be sure to arrive very early L’Homme (see Fab vs Drab) to watch the at Le Comptoir du Relais, or if you’re in spectacular Eiffel Tower light show (every the mood for the chicest cheeseburger hour on the hour). 20,000 sparkling in town try your luck at Ralph Lauren. light bulbs is quite something. With your Well, you’ve earned a pamper, so off with magical dinner booked (well in advance) you to the Six Senses Spa, and relax in at Le Meurice, and a moonlit walk through

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Start your stylish day with some of the Regis offers bivalve bliss, and you can eat a boisterous boîte of chandeliers, zinc finest croissants and baked goods in in or takeaway. What luck, you’re terribly and graffiti – don’t miss the infamous the city from famed baker Eric Kayser close to the beautiful Palais Royale, rice pudding with salted caramel cream – rather handily he has a shop Carré and that means vintage shopping and and nougatine. Nightcaps? Mais oui. Two Rive Gauche at 18 rue du Bac in the 7th perfume at the lovely shops of Didier words. Andy Wahloo. Fin! arrondissment, just perfect for your post Ludot and Serge Lutens. An afternoon pastry stroll around the best interior visit to the Musée Jacquemart-André décor and antique shops in this treasure is at once stylish and cultural, but just chest of a neighborhood. Whatever as importantly you’ll find a rather good you do, don’t miss out on divine Muriel afternoon tea under the Tiepolo ceiling Grateau (see LUXE Loves), and a visit to of its grand café. For that all important the splendid taxidermist extraordinaire pre-prandial, it’s difficult to beat the Deyrolle, quite simply one of our favorite excellent libations at ECC, before taking shops, anywhere. A quick coffee at Hotel your seat at the ultra fashionable white Montalembert if you must, and then taxi on white clad Sur Mesure for Thierry to the joyous Musée des Arts Décoratifs Marx’s molecular marvels. If something for its design collections dating from a little less formal is called for, head to the Middle Ages to now. Lunch! Huitrerie Chez l’Ami Jean for Basque at its best in

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Wendy Lyn is the go-to gal for all things to 51 rue de Grenelle in the 7th, where Jean-Paul Hévin, his alchemical cocoa culinary in Paris including food tours, it’s possible to detect the presence of will send you loco. Yes, you’ve died and cooking classes, market visits and wine cheese wonderland Barthélémy even as gone to Hévin! To finish your day, care tastings, but it’s also worth seeking out you turn into the street. You’ve now got for something a little under the radar for the advice of Aurélie and Marion at the makings of a picnic, and where better supper? Try the excellent tasting menu at Succulent Paris who arrange all manner to enjoy it than the sylvan surrounds of Verjus. Relaxed and welcoming, this little of culinary delights including food the nearby garden at the Musée Rodin. restaurant is a bit like attending a great tastings in private apartments. Prefer to Chocolate is a subject dear to most supper party, or if you prefer it even less go it alone? No problem. During the week, people’s heart and in Paris you’re spoilt formal, they have a great wine bar with one of the very best places to start is for choice, but for an altogether different bites menu too. Lovely! always the delectable La Grand Épicerie experience grab a cab to the 9th to find and its extraordinary seasonal, regional the extraordinary A l’Etoile d’Or at 30 rue and international produce. From the ultra- Fontaine, where pigtailed Queen of Candy luxe food hall specializing in everything, Denise Acabo reigns benevolently over it’s an easy step to the tiny independent her realm of hand-curated confectionary stores specializing in only one thing. and French artisan chocolate. We adore On you go to nearby 8 rue du Cherche- this store! Or, if you prefer to sit down Midi in the 6th for the legendary bread for your chocolate fix, try the wicked of Poilâne, and then follow your nose upstairs tearoom at artisanal chocolatier

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LUXE ITINERARY The Essentials

ROMANCE STYLE

• Les Deux Magots • Sainte Chapelle • Eric Kayser 6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés / 62 rue Saint-Antoine / M: St. Paul / 18 rue du Bac / M: Rue du Bac / M: St. Germain des Prés / +33 1 44 61 20 00 +33 1 42 61 27 63 +33 1 45 48 55 25 www.sainte-chapelle.monuments- www.erickayser.com www.lesdeuxmagots.com nationaux.fr • Muriel Grateau (see LUXE Loves) • Ladurée • The Four Seasons Hotel Georges V 21 / M: St. Germain 31 avenue George V / M: George V / • Deyrolle des Prés / +33 1 44 07 64 87 +33 1 49 52 70 10 46 rue du Bac / M: Rue du Bac / www.laduree.fr www.fourseasons.com/paris +33 1 42 22 30 07 www.deyrolle.com • Musée Eugène Delacroix • Café de L’Homme (see Fab vs Drab) 6 rue de Furstenberg / • Hotel Montalembert M: St. Germain des Prés / • Le Meurice 3 rue Montalembert / M: Rue du Bac +33 1 44 41 86 50 228 rue de Rivoli / M: Tuileries / / +33 1 45 49 68 68 www.musee-delacroix.fr +33 1 44 58 10 10 www.hotel-montalembert.fr www.lemeurice.com • Le Comptoir du Relais • Musée des Arts Décoratifs 9 Carrefour de L’Odéon, 6th / • Le Grand Vefours 107 rue de Rivoli / M: Tuileries / M: Odéon / +33 1 44 27 07 97 17 rue de Beaujolais / M: Palais +33 1 44 55 57 50 Royal / +33 1 42 96 56 27 www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr • Ralph Lauren www.grand-vefour.com 173 Boulevard Saint-Germain / • Huitrerie Regis M: Odéon / +33 1 44 77 76 00 • Palais Royale 3 rue Montfaucon / M: Mabillon / www.ralphlaurenstgermain.com/en 4 rue de Valois / M: Palais Royal / +33 1 44 41 10 07 +33 1 42 96 15 35 www.huitrerieregis.com • Six Senses Spa www.hotel-paris-palaisroyal.com 3 rue de Castiglione / M: Tuileries / • Didier Ludot / 24 Galerie +33 1 43 16 10 10 Montpensier / M: Palais Royal / www.thewestinparis.com +33 1 42 96 06 56 www.didierludot.fr • Fifi Chachnil 231 Rue Saint-Honoré / M: Tuileries / • Serge Lutens +33 1 42 61 21 83 95 rue de Rivoli / M: Palais Royal / www.fifichachnil.com +33 1 42 86 57 76 www.sergelutens.com

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STYLE GOURMET

• Musée Jacquemart-André • Wendy Lyn • Musée Rodin 158 Boulevard Haussmann / [email protected] 79 rue de Varenne / M: Varenne / M: St. Philippe du Roule / www.thepariskitchen.com +33 1 44 18 61 10 / +33 1 45 62 11 59 www.musee-rodin.fr www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com • Succulent Paris 33 rue de Tocqueville / • A l’Etoile d’Or • ECC M: Malesherbes 30 rue Pierre Fontaine / M: Blanche 37 rue Saint-Honoré / M: Châtelet / [email protected] / +33 1 48 74 59 55 +33 1 45 08 88 09 www.succulent-paris.com www.experimentalcocktailclub.com • Jean-Paul Hévin • La Grand Épicerie 231 rue Saint-Honoré / M: Tuileries / • Sur Mesure 38 rue de Sévres / M: Sevres- +33 1 55 35 35 96 251 rue Saint-Honoré / M: Tuileries / Babylone / +33 1 44 39 81 00 www.jphevin.com +33 1 70 98 73 00 www.lagrandeepicerie.fr www.mandarinoriental.com/paris • Verjus / 52 / • Poilâne M: Bourse / +33 1 42 97 54 40 • Chez l’Ami Jean 49 rue de Grenelle / M: Rue du Bac www.verjusparis.com 27 rue Malar / M: La Tour-Maubourg www.poilane.com / +33 1 47 05 86 89 www.amijean.eu • Barthélémy 51 rue de Grenelle / • Andy Wahloo M: Rue du Bac / +33 1 42 22 82 24 69 rue des Gravilliers / M: Arts et Métiers / +33 1 42 71 20 38 www.andywahloo-bar.com

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