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...At Flint/Stannary’s tasting, I was also extremely taken by Clos des Rocs’ Pouilly-Fuissé, Les Pierrotes, a steal at £240 for 12....
...Renoir’s “Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette” (1876) captured revellers in Montmartre as a dance of curves and looping forms, darker and brighter costumes a mesh of harmonious colour though which light streams...
...Loire-born David Croix of Domaine des Croix typifies a generation of vignerons eking magic from Burgundy’s humbler appellations....
...Both Christie and I love the tartare de boeuf préparé à la minute, which is prepared tableside. I have a serious sweet tooth, so it’s always followed by the tarte aux pommes from the dessert trolley....
...adjacent Piazza Duca d’Aosta into a rocky landscape....
...with spoken dialogue) at the grand Teatro de la Zarzuela is highly anticipated....
...As Hélène Roux, whose family has managed the local hotel La Colombe d’Or for generations, put it to Farber: “[Fauré] totally adored him....
...David said the other day, ‘God, I wish I’d kept all those bloody Maharishi combat trousers.’ Do you remember Evisu and all those brands?”...
...Peltz likes to say that he’d rather be rich than be right....
...David Diop, a French novelist of Senegalese origin who won the International Booker Prize in 2021 for his novel At Night All Blood is Black (originally published in French as Frère d’âme), about Senegalese...
...I saw a McDonald’s on the other side of the Place de la Gare and, moth-like, was drawn to its warm red-yellow glow. It was closed....
...Choose to dine à la carte, or enjoy a five- or seven-course tasting menu (both with vegetarian options)....
...The place that means a lot to me is La Colombe d’Or hotel in Saint-Paul de Vence. I’ve been going there for 30 years, and I’ve got to know the wonderful staff and owners very well....
...Sur Place (2007) was set amid the Paris youth protests of 2006, while her first feature La Bataille de Solférino (2013) was about a TV news reporter covering political campaigning on the Paris street that...
...Caspar David Friedrich in Germany To mark the 250th anniversary of the artist’s birth, Germany has designated 2024 the Year of Caspar David Friedrich (caspardavid250.de)....
...Dominic John, a 58-year-old director of a business coaching company from Buckinghamshire, recently moved from Val d’Isère to La Légettaz, 1km away, to upgrade from a two-bed to a three-bedroom apartment....
...And we’d like to think that Paris Saint-Germain is part of that.”...
...Inspiration comes from Tom Ford, Lenny Kravitz, David Bowie and Studio 54. “I’d like to think that I live a very glamorous life,” says Smith....
...It tastes like a cross between a Chassagne and a St-Aubin. £39.90 One More Wine Shop and others David Moret, Sous La Velle 2021 Meursault (13%)Exceedingly pure white burgundy from a promising micro-négociant...
...Finally, I’d like to thank David Hindley for expertly steering the Week Ahead guide for the last fortnight....
...The initial plan was to launch a year earlier in Place de la Concorde, at the east end of the Champs-Elysées, to coincide with the first, and much-hyped, Paris+ par Art Basel art fair....
...I live in the Paseo de la Reforma, a big avenue running through the centre of the city – you can see the Monumento a la Independencia and Chapultepec Park – yet the space feels very calm and quiet....
...The weekend was compèred and curated, as always, by Jonzi D (né David Jones), the 53-year-old rapper, former dancer and all-round hip-hop evangelist....
...My style icon is John F Kennedy Jr. I like his flow: a bit chic, but poetic and sporty at the same time....
...I started by asking David Lammy about what we’d just heard. How worried should we be? David Lammy I do think these are dangerous times....
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