I have been to Paris six times, each so different and special in their own way.
The city of my heart.
If I need to breathe again, I buy a flight to the French capital.
And below I leave you my guide with some indications on how I would structure the Parisian escape.
DAY 1
BREAKFAST: Carette sede Trocadéro | Café du Trocadéro
comfortable shoes and let’s fill our eyes with wonder…
– Trocadéro
– Eiffel Tower
– Champ De Mars
– Pont d’Iéna
(to do: boat trip on the Seine with embarkation and disembarkation in the same point, usually near the Eiffel Tower)
– Place de la Concorde
– Jardin des Tuileries
– Place Vendôme
SNACK: unmissable stop at Cédric Grolet Le Meurice (6 Rue de Castiglione, 75001 Paris)
*on the online shop you will find the ‘Click & Collect‘ section, which in my opinion is the skip-the-line solution; buy a sweet and choose the day with a time slot. You will then have your reservation for collection, and at that moment you will be able to purchase anything else. This also applies to the Opéra location.
Afternoon at the museum, I leave you my favourites
*with a reservation you are facilitated
– Museo de l’Orangerie
Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
– Museum D’Orsay
Dante and Virgil
Breakfast on the grass
Olympia
Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
Self-portrait
The church of Auvers-Sur-Oise
Still life with apples and oranges
The dance class
Two Tahitian women
The poppies
Starry Night
The dance school
Vincent Van Gogh’s room
DINNER: Relais de venise-son entrecôte
Remember that we are in Paris, you have to try the entrecôte!
This little place that I recommend is a restaurant chain with multiple locations in Paris; the formula consists of a house salad as an entrée, and a kind of meat cut topped with their special sauce and chips, the plate is refilled twice. Low prices, worth trying!
AFTER DINNER: Obviously speakeasy! I leave you the cutest ones:
– L’épicier (the bar hidden in the back of a grocery store. Once you enter the small supermarket, look around and look for the entrance door behind a shelf);
– Lavomatic (One of the most original is Lavomatic, the bar hidden above a real laundromat located in the 10th arrondissement, near Place de la République. To enter you have to go through a door disguised as a washing machine and go up the stairs);
– No Entry is the secret bar of the Italian restaurant Pink Mamma, entering you pass the pastry shop where I worked.
DAY 2
BREAKFAST: Le café Carrousel | Cafe Marly
– Palais Royal
– Louvre Museum
The Mona Lisa
Portrait of a man, Christ at the column – Antonello da Messina
Death of the Virgin-Caravaggio
Crucifix of the Louvre-Giotto
San Sebastiano (Mantegna)
The oath of the Horatii
Dante’s boat
Freedom leading the people
Philosopher in meditation
The virgin of the rocks
The raft of the jellyfish
The wedding at Cana
La belle Jardiniere
The Code of Hammurabi
Nike of Samothrace
Venus de Milo
Love and Psyche
– Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
– Sainte Chapelle
– Place Dauphine
– Saint-Germain-des Prés neighborhood
– Jardin du Luxembourg
– Panthéon de Paris
SNACK: obligatory stop, the choux at Odette
DINNER: Brasserie Rosie
DAY 3
BREAKFAST: Café de Flore | Les Deux Magots
– Montmartre
– Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
– Le mur des Je t’aime
– Moulin Rouge (it would be wonderful to see a show in the evening)
– Pont Alexandre III
– Arc de Triomphe with terrace *ticket at the moment, for me the most beautiful view of Paris
– Avenue des Champs-Élysées
SNACK: Ladurée
– Opéra Garnier
– Galeries Lafayette *don’t miss the terrace
DINNER: Le soufflé
Unmissable spots for photos
– Avenue De Camoens
– 228 rue de l’Université
– Pont de Bir- Hakeim (from the famous film Inception)
– Pont Alexandre III
– Métro line 6 (direction Étoile/Arc de Triomphe) to go to the 16th Arrondissement
Secret bar
– L’épicier
– Lavomatic
– Mezcaleria
– Little red bar
– The syndicates
– Le 1905
Rooftop
– Le Perchoir Marais (*check opening times)
– L’Oiseau blanc rooftop restaurant
Meals
– Mamie burger
– Restaurant Le train bleu Paris
– Brasserie rosie
– Relais de venise- son entrecôte
– Children Paris
– Girafe Restaurant
– Lou lou Paris
– Pink mamma
– Perruche
– Cocò
– Le ciel de Paris
– Palais de Tokyo
– Le soufflé
– Brasserie Victor Hugo
– Le Nemours Paris
– FrogPubs
– Les musset
– Harpers
Let’s get to the breakfasts, my favourite part
– Café Marly
– Café du Trocadero
– Ladurée Champs Élysées
– Les deux margots
– Café le Carrousel
– Café de l’Epoque
– Café de Flore
– Café Hugo
– Angelina Paris
– Carts Place des Vosges
– Café Verlet (oldest coffee roastery in Paris)
Boulangerie
– Au petit versailles du Marais
– Du pain et des idees
– Stohrer
– Jean-Paul Hévin
– Pierre Hermé (my favourite macarons)
– Sebastien Gaudard patisserie
– Cedric Grolet Opéra
– Michalak
– Boulangerie l’Essentiel (excellent croissant)
– Boulangerie Utopie (excellent pan au chocolat)
– The French Bastards (chocolate cruffin)
Crêpes
– La crêperie de Josselin
– Crêpes little bretz
– Breizh café
– Crêperie de plougastel
– Crêperie du clown
Éclair
– L’éclair de Genie (Montmartre)
Choux
– Popelini officiel
– Odette
Hotels
– Hotel Duquense Eiffel
– Hotel de Sévigné
– Hotel Concortel
– Hotel Caron de Beaumarchais
trips outside Paris
– Versailles, very well connected with the RER line C
– Disneyland Paris connected with line A
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