The former Ornano train station, located on the Petite Ceinture railway, has been entirely rearranged to create an original and environmental-friendly place: La Recyclerie. Here, old and new are side by side and the watchword is ecology. The Recyclerie applies the "Old is Gold" saying, which explains its second-hand furniture. Remote from traffic, the place […]
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- September 11, 2014
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Vegan restaurants are more and more common in Paris. One of them is particularly famous these days and serves a vegan and organic brunch: Le Pain Quotidien. In a wooden and rustic interior, the restaurant proposes a very copious brunch at €22.50 that is vegan and made out of 100% fresh products. There are many […]
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- August 14, 2014
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Located at the heart of the 16th arrondissement, in the Passy neighborhood, Chez Géraud is a real treasure for gourmets who are looking for a semi-gastronomic cooking. The bourgeois-style decoration is as splendid as the traditional French dishes are delicious. This warm and convivial restaurant recently changed hands and is now run by waiter Arnaud […]
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- August 07, 2014
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If you want to eat clean, you should rely on yourself. However, not everydoby can grow their own vegetable garden, due to a lack of space, time, or any other reason. But the Internet has the solution: the French website monpotager.com (whose name means "my vegetable garden") gives you the possibility to grow your own […]
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- July 01, 2014
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Goodplanet Foundation has launched a free app called "Planet Ocean" that aims at helping consumers to buy fish from sustainable industries. Simple to use and very instructive, this app lists around a hundred species of fish and shellfish classified by origins, fishing technique and the amount of the remaining stock. Available in French and English […]
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- June 17, 2014
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Until now they were thrown away because supermarkets did not want to sell them, but all the fruit and vegetables that are ugly, twisted, weird-looking, damaged by the weather (rain and hail) or simply too big, will shortly take their revenge on sized vegtables. An operation called "Quoi ma gueule?" ("What's wrong with my face?") […]
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- June 03, 2014
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After opening a gourmet restaurant, a brasserie and a hotel, French double-starred Chef Jean-François Piège only needed an icing on his cake! This is why he opened the patisserie Gâteaux Thoumieux, whose decoration was made by architect and interior designer India Madhavi, who also created the decoration of the design hotel of the same name. […]
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La Ruche qui dit Oui (the Hive that says Yes) is not only a funny name, it is also a gathering of consumers who buy fresh, seasonal and often organic products, directly from local producers. Local consuming allows them to get local products at a better price, while providing the small producer with a fair […]
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A few metro stations away from the Gavarni and Eiffel Trocadéro hotels, near the Champs-Elysées, a Mercedes-Benz pop-up store and restaurant opened on the avenue George V on March 12th last. Besides the latest cars of the car manufacturer (the C-class sedan and the compact SUV called GLA), the visitors can admire clothes and various […]
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- March 20, 2014
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It seems that the rue Lauriston belongs to the Chef Benallal Akrame! After a Michelin-starred restaurant and a steakhouse, the chef has just opened a third establishment in the same street: a wine bar called Brut. When you enter it, you are immediately transported somewhere else, in a cellar both modern and rustic with its […]
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- February 20, 2014
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