Benoit

Another weekend and another Paris trip. Its too temptingly easy isn’t it when you can hop on a train early in the morning, have a snooze then wake up in Paris. Only problem with such…

Brasserie Lipp

Waking up on a Sunday to a gloriously sunny (and unseasonably warm) Paris morning and it would be churlish to do anything other than go for a long stroll through the streets of the Left Bank. Meandering…

Publicis Drugstore; Paris

As the song says; “I love Paris in the springtime, I love Paris in the fall, I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer; when it sizzles…..” So…

Taillevent, Paris

A few nights ago I saw heaven. Heaven is located in 6th arrondissement of Paris. Taillevent is a bastion of classic French cuisine having been named after the nickname of 14th century chef Guillaume Tirel who…

Steirereck, Vienna

In order to keep my greedy and rather fussy tummy happy I have to have a day job. A day job which involves a reasonable amount of travel. Business travel is a funny old thing;…