L’Ostreade Bar Fruits de Mer

Unfortunately this fine restaurant is now gone, replaced by a chain. Sorry to see it go.

Fresh fish direct from the sea, in Paris. Pure heaven is to be found at L’Ostreade with it’s bright contemporary interior and fine cuisine.

Info:
Off the Avenue du Maine, L’Ostreade Bar Fruits de Mer is between the Hospital Pasteur and the Cemetary Montparnasse… but don’t worry you won’t need either location after eating here. Open from 8:30 am until 11 pm.

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Address:
11 Bd. de Vaugirard
Paris 75015

Phone: 01 43 21 87 41

Piccolo Teatro

Permanently closed, sorry.

Piccolo Teatro is one of Paris’ nice little secrets, a vegetarian restaurant that can’t be beat…

Located in the fashionably gay Marais district, and next door to hot bar Les Scandaleuses, this place is all the rage with the younger, hip crowd.

Delightfully casual interior, resaonable prices and good food are quite welcome to this vegetarian reviewer.

Info:
Metro: St. Paul – Closed Mondays.

Address:
6 rue des Ecouffes
Paris

Phone: 01 42 72 17 79

Sarl Castafiore

Sarl Castafiore sits tiny in its charming spot on l’Ile St. Louis. No overdone decor, condescending wait staff. Just sponged peach walls and Ed. He does everything to welcome you. For 16 years, I have made this restaurant my private dining room in Paris. With friends or alone, it has always drawn me back.

The pastas are supreme. Sauces to dream of the rest of the year. And intimate and welcoming. The Tiramisu is rated 9 on a worldwide tiramisu website rating but 10 by me. Explore Sarl Castafiore when you want to feel at home and eat wonderful food. Not to be compared with any other restaurant. Unique and I will always return there. More than once in a trip.

Musée des Arts et Métiers

Arts et Metiers is a museum that doesn’t usually make it on the Paris visitor’s must-see list. But for anyone with even a passing interest in technology and design, it’s a rare treat. The permanent collections are vast and beautifully presented. (Our favorite part is the multi-level installation on the evolution of the automobile in the jewel-like chapel).

For more about the arts in Paris, visit Paris Muse,
offering private museum tours for the creative traveler.

Address:
60, rue Reamur, 3eme
Metro: Arts et Metiers
Paris

Parson’s Paris School of Design

Located at No. 14, Rue Letellier, Parsons Paris facilities include a gallery open to the public with student exhibitions, the Sussman Computer center, printmaking facilities, photo lab, sculpture and painting studios, as well as classrooms for Liberal Studies and Design Marketing courses.

The facilities include a fully equipped color and black and white darkroom, and generous studio space to accommodate courses in painting, drawing and printmaking. A recent investment in technology has resulted in fully outfitted computer lab, the site of classes at all levels in graphics, and multi-media arts.

Parts of the buildings are “ateliers,” or studios dating to the last century. The atmosphere of the old Parisian work spaces in the skylit studios is a unique place to study art.

Address:
14 Rue Letellier
Paris