Hotels, restaurants, delicatessen and clubs
Rive Gauche’s best spots
La Buca
All the excellence of Italy just a mouthful away… Proud Roman, Giuseppe, set up shop on rue Grégoire de Tours because he wanted « to give the French people the opportunity to eat exactly as if they were in Italy ». It took less than a year for La Buca to become a...
The Guy’s Club
The Left Bank’s unique strip-tease club We ask owner Guy how he would define his strip tease club and he responds with the following: “It’s a glamour club, in the spirit of the Saint-Germain-de-Près of the Roaring Twenties”. A clear concept, which for three years has...
Bel Ami’s creations
Brand new, shiny and tasty! The Bel Ami, 5-star design hotel of Saint-Germain has a fresh new look. First of all, the 108 bedrooms have been renovated and a brand new spa, Carita –see page 7– is open 7/7 for hotel guests as well as local residents. With the arrival of...
Time flies at the Hôtel Bel Ami
There is no time like the present for finding what you’re looking for at Bel Ami. In the morning atmosphere of the lounge over a continental breakfast, or in the family feeling of the famous organic brunches at the week end… hold on, it’s almost lunchtime… from...
Jean-Louis Debré and Laurent Kupferman: a republican debate over a table in Taokan
When Cerise brings together two men who are great thinkers, but also great gourmets in the 6th arrondissement, there’s only one destination: the restaurant Taokan on rue du Sabot It’s over a plate of delicate langoustine & green apple ravioli that the discussion...
Le Café de la Mairie
An institution opposite the church of Saint-Sulpice « Le Café de la Mairie »! Even the best of communicators couldn’t find a more evocative name to encapsulate a moment, a place, a setting. Since last century this legendary café has been a « neighbourhood cafe »,...
Les Deux Magots, from surrealists to existentialists
Whether on a blank page or a blank canvas, for over a century all the artistic movements that changed our view of the world were born here in this legendary café. When the Saint-Germain Jazz Festival on May 21st sets double basses and saxophones humming underneath the...