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Myriam's Blog
Welcome to Myriam’s Blog - your window into the Paris we locals truly live.
While this section used to focus mostly on food and restaurants, it's now evolving into something much richer — a personal, insider look at Paris and France, told with warmth, curiosity and honesty.
Here, you’ll soon find reflections on daily Parisian life, society and culture, language quirks, art, fashion, cafés, weather moods, neighborhoods, history, hidden gems… and yes, plenty of delicious food stories too.
Think of it as a friendly, unfiltered conversation — the kind you’d have with a Parisian cousin over coffee at a café terrace.
More articles are coming soon… stay tuned!
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Le piano bar de l’Hotel d’Aubusson
Hotel d'Aubusson is a charming little hotel located in the heart of the chic Saint-Germain des Prés district, along rue Dauphine (the first street in Paris, by the way) leading to the Seine and the Pont-Neuf. Hotel lobbies and their piano bars are often warm landmarks out of time and where it is good to snuggle up to rest at the end of a long day of visits and intensive walks through the city. As with the majority of hotels, it is not necessary to stay there to have the right
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Le café du Petit Palais
Here is another wonderful opportunity to put into practice the idea of the Museum Café! Here, not only is the Museum absolutely charming, the setting enchanting and the ideal location, at the foot of the Champs-Elysées facing the GrandPalais but there, the Museum is free and the setting of its café is fabulous ! Yes, going for a coffee or a drink, even when you do not intend to visit the Museum or monument in question where the café or restaurant is located is a very good i
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Hotel Ritz - Hemingway's Bar
It is a great classic to go “for a drink” at the Bar du Ritz, known as at the "Bar Hemingway”. Majestically located on the sumptuous Place Vendôme , the Ritz is one of the most luxurious Palaces in Paris. Rooms there are not necessarly affordable for anyone (For a "Prestige" Suite it can go up to 14,000 € per night !) but having a drink at the Bar du Palace in a romantic moment is still more or less affordable and the experience is a must at least once in a lifetime ! A real
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Au Pied de Cochon
(For the 24/24 service) This brasserie is also a real institution! Located in the heart of Les Halles, it was for years and since its creation in 1947 just after the war, both the canteen of farmers, butchers, delicatessens, merchant fishmongers and stallholders who came to set up or sell their goods at the Marché des Halles, the big wholesale market in the center of Paris and that Emile Zola called "the belly of Paris" but also of artists and in particular Edith Piaf! Le Pie
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Les Marches
If you get to the 16th arrondissement of Paris, there is a small restaurant there that I would call “local”. This is an address of Parisians, of locals. This restaurant is called Les Marches because it is located a few meters up the stairs leading to the high side of the adjacent street (the 16th arrondissement is slightly hilly). It is a restaurant that is part of the “Les Routiers” network, a label granted to hundreds of restaurants across France and meeting the criteria e
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Bistrot des Vosges Bar saveurs de l’Aveyron
Despite its name, this place is more of a restaurant, a mini brasserie. Located on Boulevard Beaumarchais, this major axis leading from Place de la Bastille to Place de la République, at the corner of a small street leading to Place des Vosges and the Marais (rue du Pas de la Mule), you will find comforting cuisine but above all, to my taste, one of the best onion soups in Paris! It's simple and unfussy and you can eat well, provided you arrive around 7:00 p.m. a table and qu
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La Closerie des Lilas
This exceptional place is a concept in itself. It is made up of two categories of restaurants: Brasserie and Restaurant, with entering the Brasserie space on your left, the Restaurant one, on your right. I assure you, you eat just as well on both sides, the "Brasserie" corner will be a little cheaper and above all you don't need to book. To have diner at the "restaurant" of La Closerie, you might as well book a table. Every layout comes with the latest social features built
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Le Grand Colbert
An institution in itself ! First of all because of its location: Located a stone's throw from the Palais Royal but especially from the Comédie Française and the Théâtre du Palais Royal , it is this place where all the Parisian Theater' beautiful people get together before and after the plays performed nearby in one of the theatres mentioned. It is not uncommon to meet comedians, producers, journalists and other local celebrities. By going there regularly, you may learn to r
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