The Historic Restaurants of Paris: A Guide to Century-Old Cafes, Bistros and Gourmet Food Shops

by Ellen Williams

Overview

The vanished world of nineteenth-century Paris still awaits behind the doors of select restaurants and gourmet shops that have delighted customers for more than a hundred years. Crossing these thresholds, the discriminating diner and shopper can step into a gilded Belle Epoque setting favored by Manet and Degas, a vintage confectioner that supplied bonbons to Monet, or a shaded café terrace frequented by Zola. From tiny pâtisseries, cozy bistros, and rustic wine bars barely known outside the quarter to bustling brasseries, elegant tea salons, and world-famous cafés, The Historic Restaurants of Paris is an indispensible guide to classic cuisine served in settings of startling beauty. Charming anecdotes relating to a restaurant’s history and celebrated former patrons, among them Proust, Balzac, George Sand, and the Impressionists, enhance this pocketable guide, which is both a practical resource and lovely gift book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781892145031
Publisher:	New York Review Books
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	City Secrets Series
Pages:	258
Sales rank:	1,168,210
Product dimensions:	4.34(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Ellen Williams, the author of the award-winning The Impressionists’ Paris and Picasso’s Paris, is the former art editor of Vogue and executive editor of The Journal of Art. She is the co-author of The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York (The Little Bookroom).