Note this road, for not only is Pierre Herme there, but Christian Constant, Jean Charles Rochoux and Sadaharu Aoki as well.   Such is the concentration of awesomeness here that every visit to Paris brings me to this area at least twice. Glistening in...

I was gobsmacked today, really really taken aback by a simple taste comparison between two chocolate bars made from the same batch of cocoa liquor from Jamaica.  Basically, we got cocoa liquor from a supplier who processes the beans into liquor,...

With a name like that, you’d be expecting a place serving dishes lovingly created from the most delectable parts of the pig.  Not to be confused with Au Pied de Cochon in Montreal, Canada, which is a foodie’s paradise, or so I heard.  This Au Pied de...

Fate must have aligned our paths once again as I returned to Artisan du Chocolat’s production ‘Atelier’ just in time for the Sloe Season.  These wild plums grow abundantly in the ‘bush’ behind the fences and last year, they escaped me, as it was late...

If readers are getting bored of the ‘best this and best that’, thats too bad, because so often in Paris, just because IT IS PARISIAN does not make it oh so damn delicious and awesome.  The search for this ‘No.1 List of Stuff’ is a personal benchmark...