A Day in Paris, Through a Food Blogger’s Stomach

CH and I took a day-trip to Paris this weekend and it was amazing.  We seriously had one of the best days in a long time.  I’ll let the picture tell the story of our day….there is a general theme 🙂

Step 1:  Locate the “best baguette” in Paris (Jacques Bazin according to Le Figaro)…

Step 2:  Locate the “best croissant” in Paris (Au Levain du Marais – according to David Lebovitz)…

Step 3:  Enjoy a espresso at a cafe in Bastille Square, people watching of course (the favourite pasttime of the French)

Step 4:  Leisurely walk down Champs-Élysées

Step 5:  Locate the best falafel place in Paris (Maoz – according again to Mr. David Lebovitz)

(no picture, too busy eating. It was seriously delicious and SO reasonably priced – I am craving one as I type this!)

Step 6:  Locate and purchase 8 gorgeous, breathtaking Ladurée Macarons (world famous and again a favourite of David Lebovitz).  Two might not have made it to our little patch of grass under the Eiffel Tower…could not resist!

For the record, we had: Chocolate, Granny Smith Apple (my favourite), Mint & Strawberry (new spring flavour), Caramel with Salted Butter (x2), Lemon, Vanilla, Orange Passion.

Step 7:  Purchase a bottle of 5€ wine and walk to the Tour Eiffel (stopping for the required tourist photo)

Step 8:  Find shade and enjoy a bottle of wine and macarons with CH, under the Tour Eiffel.

Step 9:  Nap under the Tour Eiffel, because of sugar high + wine (while CH played in a tree – yes he is about to become a lawyer!)

Step 10:  Dinner at amazing French bistro – Les Cocottes – where they serve all of their dishes in mini Staub cast-iron pots (another recommendation of David Lebovitz)

(no picture – too busy eating!)

Step 11: Home, to dream of the amazing life in France we are living!

If I told you that until we looked at our list of “to-do’s” for the day in Paris, we didn’t plan for all of them to be food related/based.  Hey, what can I say, I love my life!