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freshen up your French repertoire in time for your next gathering This potato chip omelet is a chic riff on a classic French egg preparation.

Freshen up your French repertoire in time for your next dinner party. These brown butter pommes anna are a quintessential side dish.

We've been combing the globe for the most comforting homes away from home, and gathered up the ten most incredible hotels to inspire your next vacation.

Is the Swedish furnishing giant's signature (and objectively delicious) meatball plate too gauche for the new central Paris IKEA?

Dîner en Blanc will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in Paris with the largest event yet. Book your trip now!

Chef and writer David Lebovitz stops by our studio to discuss his latest book. We also discuss Mario Batali's sexual misconduct allegations in the news.

In this excerpt of David Downie's latest book, he writes about the role of blood in classic French dishes as well as its role in royal lineage.

Food and culture writer Lindsey Tramuta is a French transplant of 10 years, and the author of The New Paris, a superb guide to getting the most from Paris.

The Art Deco-inspired Hôtel Bachaumont opened less than two years ago on a quiet street in Paris' central 2nd Arrondissement.

“I just can’t do ‘Entrée, plat, dessert’ anymore,” my Parisian friend says as we're deciding where to go for dinner on a recent night in his city. He’s not alone in his preference for casual wine bars offering shareable plates, as opposed to the more regimented starter, main course, dessert routine you’ll find at most Parisian restaurants. Thanks to the…

Emerging from the subway station République, where Paris’s hip and eclectic 3rd, 10th, and 11th arrondissements come together, you first encounter hoards of teenagers skateboarding or talking excitedly in groups. All around, there are cafés and sidewalks full of people of all ages and walks of life. This city is very alive, despite its recent…

Bread is on the table for every meal in France — always has been, always will be. Michel Izard, artisanal French baker and author, says, “If a restaurant has good bread, you can also expect good food.” Bread can be eaten with butter while you wait for your food, but it’s also an important accompaniment…

Despite France’s colonial past, Paris hasn’t always been the place for great Vietnamese food. Recently, that’s started to change, and it’s now possible to find a world-class bowl of pho, as well as other Southeast Asian specialties, at a number of restaurants around the city.The culinary exchange between Asia and Paris over the past decade or…

If you’re looking to find the best French food products in Paris, your one-stop shop is La Grande Épicerie, near the St-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood in the 7th Arrondissement. Connected to the oldest department store in the world, Le Bon Marché, La Grande Épicerie offers an impressive showcase that will feed both your eyes and appetite.We met with…

If you’ve never heard of Rungis Market, you’re not alone. (I didn’t know about it until my last trip to Paris, and that’s only because I was traveling with some serious food writers.)Let’s start with the basics. It’s the world’s largest wholesale market, located in a suburb just seven kilometers south of Paris. It sprawls over…

Move over, Japan. France has the next bizarre vending machine.According to the English-language European publication The Local, Paris is now home to the first meat-peddling vending machine, and we don’t mean jerky.The machine, placed outside butcher shop L’ami Txulette, offers pork chops (€5, $5.66), beef carpaccio (€6, $6.79), 250-gram steaks (€8, $9.05), ham and even chicken eggs. It accepts…

The idea of going to cooking school in Paris is dreamy, filled with images of whisking up soufflés and carving ducks à l’orange. It really is a dream to be taught by passionate chefs with thick French accents. But it was just a matter of time until the dream became very real and I realized that cleaning…

As the fog of New Year revelry subsided, we asked some of our writers to list their top drinking experiences while traveling abroad in 2015. Here are their picks:Fragrances and the Curtain Club (Berlin, Germany)Centrally located in Berlin, two of the city's best bars are both in the Ritz-Carlton Berlin, both run by bar manager Arnd Heissen.…

While we ate many excellent things here in the States last year — check out our favorites from the South, Northeast, West Coast and Midwest and Southwest — we'd be remiss to not mention some of the amazing places where our writers dined internationally in 2015. Here are their picks:Chote Chitr (Bangkok, Thailand)My most memorable…

Earlier this week, 147 leaders from around the world arrived in Paris for the long-anticipated climate talks, also known as COP21, a series of meetings in which these powerful men and women will discuss carbon emissions, fossil fuels, solar power and some way to actually move forward. The event is nothing short of historic and…

This should have been the week that the French food guide Le Fooding was celebrating the release of its annual publication, which rates the best restaurants in Paris and throughout the country. Instead, the editors, like all Parisians and many people around the world, are still in shock from the Friday night attacks that killed…

Moving away from home can be hard, especially if it means moving away from home-cooked meals filled with nostalgia. Luckily for those in the Paris area, there’s a website, Lou Papé, that rents out grandparents who will bring the smells and tastes of home cooking to you, according to Food and Wine.Alizé Delbes founded the…

If asked to summarize the summer of 2015 in one word, Europeans — or anyone who journeyed through the glorious continent — would more likely than not respond with “hot.” For reasons she’ll take to the grave, Mother Nature unleashed the sweltering “Caronte” heat wave that brought the mercury to brutal, record-breaking highs, toasting a decent…

Victoire Louapre is a food writer based in Paris. After living abroad for many years, she returned to her home country to work at Le Fooding, an influential restaurant guide whose aim is to discover the hottest restaurants in the City of Light. Between a lunch in Bastille and a goûter in Le Marais, she gave Food Republic…

In Hungry Concierge, we travel the world to spot hotels that operate with their guests’ food and drink needs squarely in mind — hotels, both big and small, that are located in neighborhoods rich with bar and restaurant options. Because there’s nothing worse than having your trip derailed by crummy room service.It's been said that in…

Hôtel de Nell, all Old World elegance on the outside, cool au courant design within. [/caption] La Régalade Conservatoire features acclaimed Paris chef Bruno Doucet’s contemporary cuisine to match the hotel’s sleek aesthetic.[/caption] In Hungry Concierge, we travel the world to spot hotels that operate with their guests’ food and drink needs squarely in mind…

Since opening in 2013, Lower East Side restuarant Contra has established itself as one of NYC’s most ambitious. The small, bare-bones spot serves an affordable prix fixe menu of rotating dishes inspired by local produce as well as the chefs’ backgrounds and cooking experience. Fabian von Hauske and Jeremiah Stone are the two guys behind the…