This is a public service announcement: Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. You still have time to let your special someone think you were organized and thought of them. Valentine’s Day always comes with pressure. Buy flowers. Book a nice restaurant.  Get a card (I’m horrible at cards, […]

What a way to start the Lupercalia weekend! We arrive, slightly late due to Parisian traffic, at the restaurant. While the side street may have been a little difficult to find, the corner building has “Relais Louis XIII” in bright lights above the entrance. The […]

  We are pleased to present the first installment of a new soon-to-be-extremely-popular feature on Travel*Food*Cool: The Mustard Report. Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of the mustard plant. Whether white or yellow, brown or black, mustard is one of the most popular […]

  In honour of today being February 29, “année bissextile” (Leap Year), I decided to write about something so special that you should definitely not wait four more years to try. If I have ever spoken to you about eating in Paris, you can skip […]

On November 13, 2015, terrorists attacked Paris in a series of coordinated suicide bombings and mass shootings. At 9:20 p.m., three suicide bombers struck the Stade de France in Paris’ northern suburb of Saint-Denis. This was followed by suicide bombings and mass shootings at cafes, […]

Most food lovers have seen the film “Julie and Julia”. If you can, recall back to the turning-point scene where Julia and Paul Child are sitting in a beautiful little French restaurant, and Julia decides that she likes to eat, so she should learn to […]