Travel Tips - Paris, France

Rose Bakery has to be one of my all time favourite places to eat in Paris, and it’s well worth the journey.
Located at 46, Rue Des Martyrs and marked with a arch shape doorway and some iron chairs, Rose Bakery is a café come general store selling all sorts of store cupboard bits and pieces including organic chocolate, speciality tea, breakfast cereal and fresh fruit not of course to mention a superb lunch time menu, consisting largely of quality produce cooked simply. On my last visit I had grilled chicken thigh and salsa verde, which was served in a light stock with steamed carrots and baby leeks.

Rose Bakery is also famous for its deserts, so be sure to grab a slice of their loaves and tray bake cakes, but for the perfect gift for your loved ones back home, or perhaps as a momentum of your visit, be sure to pick up a copy of their outstanding cookbook “Breakfast, Lunch, Tea”… and you never know you might even be able to have it autographed while you’re there!

From limited edition trainers, portable electronics including Leica and Diana F cameras, music, jewellery, books on fashion and men’s and ladies designer clothing upstairs, Colette is an essential destination for a shopping trip in Paris.

Sandwiched between a number of quality designer boutiques including Louis Vuitton and Dior, a visit to Rue Saint-Honoré is a must if you like shopping.

Forget Eiffel tower key rings, t-shirts and other obvious tourist tat and instead bring home some gorgeous macaroons from one of the branches of Ladurée. The packaging is beautiful, that is, if they last until you get home!

For an extra indulgence head over to their grand tearoom on the Champs Elysées.You won’t be disappointed.

Despite the wealth of restaurant choice on offer in Paris, particularly in the Latin Quarter, I feel slightly ashamed in recommending this franchised fast food chain as a quality place to spot for a bite to eat in-between sightseeing and photographing Notre Dame cathedral, however both the chips and the falafel make Maoz well worth visiting.

The place is small, sometimes the tables are messy, but the novelty of
being about to load up your Falafel in pitta with your own salad and tahini
soon makes you forget about that, not to mention the price.

For a cheap eat on the go, I cannot recommend Maoz enough.