Barbra Austin

I’ve been to and enjoyed Bread & Roses several times over the past few years.
The breads are all organic. The pastries are natural beauties. The quiches are deep and the savory tarts are filled with bright vegetables and herbs. Golden raisins peak out from a rock pile of scones…

I first visited this place with a couple of girlfriends more than three years ago. Our table wasn’t ready, so we waited with a glass of wine at the kitchen counter, where we tried to stay out of the way of the busy serveuse while chatting and watching the chef cook away. I was charmed.

The aptly named le Timbre is the size of a postage stamp, a single room with a tiny kitchen in the back. Every inch of space is put to use. There is a banquette along each wall, and you’ll need help getting in and out.

Continue reading at Girls’ Guide to Paris…

Now that summer is upon us, I thought I’d round up my favorite addresses for ice cream and sorbet in Paris.

It was a sort of twisted curiosity that drew me to Ralph’s, the restaurant in the new Ralph Lauren shop on the boulevard St. Germain. Fried chicken? A supposedly great burger? A staff trained by Danny Meyer?


I just wanted to see if they could pull this thing off.

“I’ve come for the burger,” I announced when I walked in.

It’s a big wide world of chocolate. There is no need to limit oneself.

Fall was on full display at the market yesterday.

You can always count on a seeing something astounding in the windows of Patrick Roger.

Confession: I bought this Croissant Ispahan at Pierre Hermé this morning because I thought it was pretty.

Is Coco & Co always as full of young women as it was yesterday afternoon?