Hints and tips:
...Right now, I can see a squad of tourists queuing to get coffee at Café de Flore (thanks, Emily in Paris). Next door, Brasserie Lipp is serving steaks and dauphinois in its fabulously grumpy style....
...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...It certainly wasn’t all late-night get-togethers at the Café de Flore....
...The Egyptian-born Gaby Aghion, who founded Chloé in 1952 and introduced the first luxury ready-to-wear collection at a show at Paris’ Café de Flore in 1956, was also a blouse woman....
...‘Object’, 1936, by Meret Oppenheim (Room 517) On a mythic afternoon in 1936, Picasso and his paramour, the artist Dora Maar, were having drinks with Oppenheim at the Café de Flore when they admired her...
...Cajas de Ahorro, a German non-governmental organisation working on financial literacy in Peru....
...The Pavillon Faubourg Saint-Germain, a beautiful hotel around the corner from the area’s famous cafés, Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore, is where such sufferers should stay....
...The crowd, crammed into Casa de Francisco, an art-nouveau townhouse turned concert venue in downtown São Paulo, starts bouncing to the fast metallic rhythm....
...I live in Saint-Germain, opposite Café de Flore, so I often sit there, even when it’s freezing, to watch the people passing by....
...There were, as is to be expected with its Michelin star, at least a couple of unannounced canapés followed by “Eau de courgette, citron caviar et huile de verveine”, which, if I understood my waiter’s explanation...
...He would eventually discover the bohemian Left Bank, where he would frequent the likes of Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, mix with French intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre,...
...The fourth is planned for Tonga in the south Pacific, while a spin-off titled “House to Watch the 3 Volcanoes” can be found on the Indonesian island of Flores....
...If elected, Machado has pledged to privatise Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state oil company that pumped much of Venezuela’s 3mn barrels a day at the turn of the century but is now beset by mismanagement...
...Founders Flore des Robert and Pauline Laurent argue that the golden rule still holds true: “One hundred strokes a day is the best way to stimulate blood microcirculation in the scalp and remove pollution...
...The prudent thing to do is to look for ways to de-risk your own supply chain and increase your competitiveness simultaneously....
...The two Venezuelans released — Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores — are the nephews of Cilia Flores, Maduro’s wife, and had been convicted in the US for conspiring to import...
...programme in the cathedral for the Sociedad Misionera de San Columbano....
...Companies like Alphabet and Apple aren’t the first to have enjoyed de facto subsidies....
...“We wanted a place without frills that would feel like home,” says Anastasia Bemposta, who co-founded the restaurant with Romi Flores....
...I am a regular at Café de Flore, and although it is touristy, it is still very Parisian – though we locals like to sit inside, not on the terrace....
...Or at least get a seat on the terrasse of Café de Flore....
...That’s where she found herself in 1936, a 23-year-old aspiring surrealist, when she met Picasso and his mistress, the artist Dora Maar, at the Café de Flore....
...For emerging artists in the 1950s and ’60s, the capital was the place to be — with the newly established tablaos attracting the likes of Camarón de la Isla, Lola Flores and Enrique Morente....
...But even its 160-year lifespan seems fleeting when compared with the 1728 Vino Pancho Romano I discovered at Bodegas González Byass in Jerez de Frontera recently....
...I typically travel around Paris by bike — it’s my favourite way to cover ground at pace and get a feel for the city — so I might cycle over to the famed Café de Flore for breakfast (tartines and a hot drink...
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