Art de vivre
Le Cyrano, Canal Saint-Martin properties, Epicure, Les Sources de Vougeot, Paysages, MORE
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REAL ESTATE • On the Market
Three properties for sale around Canal Saint-Martin in the 10th arr:
→ Faubourg Saint-Denis (metro Gare de l’Est) • 1BR/1BA, 101 m2 apartment • Ask: 1.25M € • Rare atypical loft in a courtyard, with generous volumes • Annual share of common charges: 1545 € • Agent: Gery Julien, Groupe Fortis Immo Paris.
→ Boulevard Magenta (metro Jacques Bonsergent) • 4BR/1.2BA, 161 m2 apartment • Ask: 1.55M € • 5-minute walk to the canal at Jacques Bonsergent, balcony, cellars • Annual share of common charges: 7500 € • Agent: Xavier Xu, iad France.
→ Rue René Boulanger (metro Jacques Bonsergent, above) • 2BR/1.1BA, 193 m2 apartment • Ask: 2.5M € • top-floor loft with high ceilings and abundant natural light • Annual share of common charges: 4266 € • Agent: Séverine De Freycinet, Daniel Féau.
CULTURE & LEISURE • Scout’s Honor
Salomé Gasselin – PRISM • Classique au Vert • Parc Floral de Paris (Vincennes) • Sat @ 16h • GA, free
Alain Jean Marie Be Bob Trio • Sunside (1st arr) • Sat @ 21h • carré or, 37 €.
Moonrise Kingdom • Prairie du Triangle (Parc La Villette) • Sun @ 21h • lounger (day of), 6 €
WORK • Friday Routine
Weekend luxury
ALICE TOURBIER • hotelier and co-founder • Les Sources Hotels in Martillac (Bordeaux), Cheverney (Loire Valley), & Gilly-les-Citeaux (Burgundy, intel)
Neighborhood you live & work in: Between Trocadéro and Passy, in the 16th arr. It’s a wonderfully balanced neighborhood: green, residential, and ideal for family life. The Bois de Boulogne is just around the corner for sports and fresh air, and Montparnasse station is within easy reach, making Bordeaux only a few hours away by high-speed train. Door to door, I can be at Les Sources de Caudalie hotels in just three hours.
It’s Friday afternoon. How are you rolling into the weekend?
After a week spent traveling between Bordeaux, the Loire Valley, and Burgundy, weekends in Paris feel like a luxury. We slow down and stay close to home with my husband and children. Since the kids have school on Saturday mornings, Friday night dinners with friends are our ritual: sometimes at a favorite Parisian address, sometimes at home, with a simple but generous table.
What’s on the agenda for today?
Today is all about Burgundy. In February, we opened Les Sources de Vougeot, our new five-star destination, with two restaurants and a Caudalie Spa. The menu by our chef, Julien Martin, is wonderful. His croque-escargot and reimagined œuf meurette already feel like signatures.
Any restaurant plans today, tonight, this weekend?
I’m especially excited to experience Epicure, the gastronomic restaurant at the Hotel Le Bristol. It’s one of those timeless Parisian palace institutions that never fails to inspire.
How about a little leisure or culture?
In Burgundy, I love stopping at our neighbor, the Château du Clos de Vougeot, a place where nine centuries of wine history and monastic tradition still resonate.
What was your last great vacation?
Last summer, we returned to New York with our teenagers. I hadn’t been back since before Covid, and the city felt more vibrant than ever. New hotel openings like Nine Orchard have added fresh energy, but New York’s incomparable pulse remains unchanged.
PARIS WORK & PLAY LINKS: What’s wrong with the Paris restaurant scene? • Luxury fashion’s existential crisis • The rise of air-conditioned clothing • Do Italians do beauty better?
GETAWAYS • Perche
Nature’s fire
The Perche is basically Paris’ 21st arrondissement, except there are fields, cows, and you can actually breathe properly. Two hours from Paname, quite a few city folks have moved out here with their suitcases, tools, and desire to make things with their own hands. Craftsmen obviously, but chefs, too.
That’s what happened with Paysages in Bellême. After sharpening his skills in some very good Parisian restaurants, chef Sylvain Parisot came here with his sweetheart and put down his knives. A bit of renovation later, and voilà: a soft, peaceful beige bubble, filled with light and tiny bunches of flowers on the tables just to remind you that no, you’re not on Boulevard Voltaire anymore. And when temperatures outside decide to go completely nuts, the coolness inside is pure happiness. Sit down and your brain instantly drops three gears.
On the plate, nature is the boss. Seasons, local producers, and whatever happens to be growing and available. From all that, the chef, alone behind the stove, creates food that clearly enjoys wandering off the beaten track. And since we’re surrounded by trees, why not go all the way: pretty much everything gets touched by the wood fire.
But that fire doesn’t mean throwing three potatoes into the embers and calling it a day. There’s some serious thinking going on here, as with the black pudding mochi, the kind of dish that could make even the most stubborn black-pudding hater reconsider their virtues. Then come ember-roasted tomatoes with fresh goat’s cheese, smoky, melting, punchy, creamy… and delicious.
Wines are natural, and the alcohol-free drinks come correct, too, and can be ordered without feeling like you’re abstaining from something. Those drinks, much like the rest of the menu, demonstrate Parisot’s talent for taking something familiar and sending it somewhere far in another direction, completely unexpected, with the natural world’s qualities framed to highlight all the bounty they offer.
After all, what’s the line from Feu! Chatterton? “At every meal, he will eat sunshine.” –Rodolphe Pelosse
→ Paysages (Bellême) • 2 Place de l’Europe • Thu 19h30-21h30, Fri-Sat 12h30-13h45 & 19h30-21h30, Sun 12h30-14h • Reserve.
GETAWAYS LINKS: In the south of France, a visit to the island Bendor, following its makeover into a luxury resort • A seafood safari on France’s culinary coast • The decline and fall of St. Tropez.
RESTAURANTS • First Person
Art de vivre
Le Cyrano has stood for more than a century with its remarkable Art Nouveau and Art Deco décor almost entirely intact. Since four friends took over the address in 2022, the plates have been gently modernized, while the spirit of the place has remained untouched.