06 January 2008

Paris highlights

A couple of more notes on Paris. As Katherine mentioned I was only there for 2 days but they were pretty action packed (as it sounds like the 2 days I missed were).

A couple of highlights from my point of view:
-Food court and chocolate at Fauchon. Even the sandwiches were packaged in such an amazing way in these little zip lock bags. Let alone the smoke salmon, fois gras, and the amazing pastries. I wish I had a picture, the presentation was just amazing.
-Hediard food court and wine cellar. Pretty awesome, amazingly presented fruit, a wine cave with wines ranging from 9 to 2000 euro, and again a great selection of fois gras (didn't buy any but thought about it!).
-Two great Jewish bakeries in The Marias (a district in Paris) which were delicious. We had little meat pies at the first (Sacha Finkelsztajn) and another just a couple doors down that we had pain au chocolat, croissant, ruglah, and something appley and delicious.
-Dinner at Le Fumoir. The food was very good with one exception (a pork dish was not so great). Interesting deserts, and good wine. A very pleasant evening right by the Louvre.
-The Pampadou. A crazy building, and an amazing Modern Art museum. We saw a great exhibit of the architect Richard Rogers who designed the Pampadou 30 years ago and actually designed the current headquarters of M&S in London. He also did a proposal for the 1st Methodist church in Seattle back in the 80's but was rejected. Another great one was Giacometti exhibit.
-We unfortunately did not make it to Disneyland Paris (maybe next time Gavin!)

Credit to Bob and Kathleen for a few of the great spots we hit.

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