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Eat & Meet in Paris

Breakfast in Marais

Café de la Poste is not your average French café. More like a little nod towards LA style brunch place but with the Parisian touch. Coffee could be improved but that goes for everywhere in Paris I’d say. The crowd is a good mix of locals and Tiktokers and the place is packed. I had Egg Benedict. It Worked for me.

Café de la Poste was close to our living quarters luckely, because the umbrella was small and there were two of us.

Even if the weather is far from ideal, especially for photographing people in the street, Paris will always look beautiful. Wet sidewalks, grey sky…does not matter. It is always magic.

Yes you are right, it’s Bashir Mbaye, who we featured in the Street Style reportage for Anna-lehti, coming to take our breakfast order in Café de la Poste. Pardon Madame, I saw him first.
Messy Egg Benedicte, I did that. Old Canon S90 with interesting bad picture quality.

Lunch

Dumplings and ramen are hot in Paris if you are to judge by the Parisans lining up in front of the Montmartre branch of Japanese style Isshin restaurant.

The place felt energetic and fun with the waiters rushing by greeting everyone with a ¨irrasheimasse ¨meaning ¨welcome, please come in¨ in Japanese, adding to the ambience.

Communal tables, great for exercising you social skills.
Always gyosas. Hot little devils though. Be patient otherwise tongue will burn.

Afternoon Matcha

My new daily ritual. In Paris I had my matcha in a little hole-in-the-wall coffee shop called White in Marais.

It was still raining
Liisa had a cappuccino and we shared a juicy piece of apple cake.

…and then to Dinner

Many moons ago there used to be a Bar in Paris called Bananas. Do you remeber Outi Broux when we managed to be late for a private dinner with Prince, the rockstar, in Le Bain Douche? We thought having a drink at that crazy banana bar would be a great idea.

At that time I could hold my Caipirinhas, quite a few of them actually. Inspite of the intoxication I still have a very vivid memory of guys dancing on the bar disk wearing kilts in the traditional way. When they go high we were quite low if you see what I mean.

Needless to say, we missed the dinner for 12 with Prince. Two chairs gaping empty. How rude of us.

Chez Janou has a bit of that party feeling, no kilts though but about 80 versions of Pastis and really great staff eager to serve.

Be sure to book in advance. We got lucky and had the last places at the bar which was actually great because we got to meet Daisy and Gabrielle. In this pictures , staff getting ready to hit the kitchen.
Yap, charming guy in the bar as well.
The Absinth was for these British girls prop buyer Gabrielle Laugier and Daisy Madeleine, hope it went well in Versaille the next day.
We just ate..
And ate.

Extra Bonus Dinner Restaurant

This place is Jussi Pyykönen’s secret place. Pardon Jussi, your secret is out.

The Café des Anges is close to where all that uncomfortable beheading were taking place much more than a hundred moons ago. Think Marie Antoinette and her last sightings alive, close to Place de la Bastille that is. Great mood in this place though.

Quite an easy desicions after all. I think we all had hamburgers. Ulla Tarma was the rebel and had something
more out of the ordinary. Do check out Ulla’s handmade jewellery on Instagram here.
From the left Jussi Pyykönen, Swedish waiter and Liisa Kokko.
Ta-daa… American burgers the Frensh way. Could have been with truffle if I remember right.
…single whole apple Tarte Tatin with ice cream, what a treat.
Thank you, good bye!

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