Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City’s 102 Best Restaurants
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- ISBN13: 9780812976830
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WHEN IN PARIS. . . .
If you’re passionate about eating well during your next trip to Paris, you couldn’t question for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano’s charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the first new comprehensive guide in many years to the city’s restaurant scene. Lobrano, Gourmet magazine’s European correspondent, has written for nearly every major food and travel magazine since he became an American in Paris in 1986. Here he shares his personal selection of the city’s 102 best restaurants, each of which is described in savvy, fun, lively descriptions that are not only indispensable for finding a superb meal but a pleasure to read.
Lobrano reveals the hottest young chefs, the coziest bistros, the best buys–including persons haute cuisine restaurants that are really worth the money–and the secret places Parisians like most, together with information on the most tasty dishes, ambience, clientele, and history of each restaurant. A series of delightful essays take in various aspects of dining in Paris, including “Table for One” (how to eat alone), “The Four Seasons” (the best of seasonal eating in Paris), and “Eating the Unspeakable” (learning to eat what you don’t reflect you like). All restaurants are keyed to helpful maps, and the book is seasoned with gorgeous photographs by Life magazine photographer Bob Peterson that will only help whet your appetite for tasting Paris.
Praise for Hungry for Paris:
“Every time I go to Paris I call Alec and question him where to eat. Nobody else has such an intimate knowledge of what is going on in the Paris food world right this minute, and there is nobody I trust more to tell me all the latest news. Happily, Alec has written it all down in this wonderful book and now I can stop bothering him.” –Ruth Reichl
“Hungry for Paris is a brilliant book with an nearly fatal flaw: the writing is so delightful you may never place home to go to any of Alec’s favorite places. Few people know,like and appreciate Paris restaurants the way Alec does; no one writes about them better or with more charm.” –Dorie Greenspan, leader of Baking From My Home to Yours
“When I was nineteen, I went to France to study, but as a replacement for, I just ate. The experience changed me: I came back to the United States, and a few years later, ongoing Chez Panisse. In Hungry for Paris, Alec Lobrano describes his own gastronomic awakening, probably better than I could! This book is a wonderful guide to eating in Paris.”
–Alice Waters
“I dearly hope Monsieur Lobrano has an unlisted phone number, for his book will make readers more than merely hungry for the culinary riches of his adopted city; it will make them ravenous for a dining companion with his particular warmth, wry charm, and refreshingly pure joie de vivre. Lobrano is a sly raconteur, a respectful critic, and the very best kind of insider–one who genuinely longs to share all his best discoveries.”
–Julia Glass, leader of The Whole World Over and Three Junes
“Organized by neighborhood and interspersed with delightful sections on such matters as eating alone. . . . This is the sort of guide you read before you go to Paris… Lobrano tells you what to expect and how to act.”-Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Lobrano . . . fleshes out his luscious prose with tempting photos. Hungry for Paris is like a cozy bistro on a cold day: It makes you feel welcome.”
-Washington Post Book World
“Le Grand Vfour. Maxim’s. La Table de Jol Robuchon. None of these venerated restaurants are on Lobrano’s list of the 102 best in Paris. And that’s one of the reasons I like Hungry for Paris.”-Gridskipper
“A treasure trove of 102 mostly undiscovered addresses… Tiny and innovative bistros get the lion’s share of Lobrano’s ink, interspersed with chapters that are autobiographical, informative and entertaining.”-Women’s Wear Daily
“Lobrano is an ideal guide because he remembers who he was, how he became the practiced he is now, and how you can buy expertise. And he can do that hard thing — see what’s in front of him.”- HeadButler.com
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Being American in Paris does not qualify one to write an authoritative book on Paris restaurants — in a very real way, expat writers like Lobrano (and Patricia Wells, for that matter) condescend to the local culture and visiting tourists too. After all, would any American reflect to buy a book that purports to be the power on American restaurants — which across the board are now better than French ones anyway — written by a Frenchman? Of course not. I would argue that Lobrano is as qualified to recommend Paris restaurants as George Bush is to draft a coherent strategy for lasting peace in Iraq. Patrons would be better off buying the book Parisians really read, the Pudlow Paris guide, written by a Parisian and now in English, too. Jer
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The write-ups for each of the restaurants is too long and verbose. I can’t figure out for whom the guide was made. If it’s for first-timers in Paris, then I reflect it should be more instructional and less ethereal. It it’s written for veteran Paris travelers (as I am), then I’d like it if the write-ups were more to the point.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book is at its best when leader Lobrano, clearly a Paris insider, offers the visitors to that city lists of some appealing sounding restaurants and menus that have been neglected by additional food guides. He ventures, for example, into the far corners of several districts of the city that are seldom frequented by visitors, but deserve exploring just for the food to be had there. There is also a really insightful chapter on dining alone in Europe that goes beyond the vicarious and hits the bulls eye on the practical side of travel.
The book will be less appealing to a name knowledgeable about food and Paris. There is a lot of space agreed to comments on “French cooking 101″ that aren’t going to appeal to a name already in the know about the scene. Also mildly irritating is the leader’s inclusion of wide details about his dining partners, the dispositions of the waiters/hosts/chefs at the restaurants visited and additional superfluous chit-chat about mood, environment, etc.
When all is said and done, opinions about food and restaurants are entirely subjective. At his best, Lobrano is a well-informed expat in Paris who supplies the reader with some personally veteran dining possibilities. Some wading through verbose commentary is needed to get to the excellent stuff. It may be worth your time if you are not as familiar or comfortable with the city as Lobrano is. On additional hand, there are additional sources of dining advice, as at least one additional reviewer has suggested–notably the Pudlow guide which is frequently updated and speaks to a local audience or consider Sandra Guftason’s “Fantastic Eats in Paris.”
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
So if one isn’t having a dinner with a long lost friend from NE prep school who has recently published an incredible photojournalist article about a Sub Saharan tribe, but rather you are interested in a excellent, honest, forthright restaurant review and recommendation guide – look elsewhere such as Zagats, TripAdvisor, Visa Signature Dining. Tis hard to get past all the gushing, name dropping stuff to find the significant parts about the dining. Truly – you can get much better, concise information from additional sources.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Hungry for Paris: The Essential Guide to the City’s 102 Best Restaurants
fresh views on familiar places and new discoveries on and off the beaten path distinguish this well-written, informative and painstakingly enjoyable guide. a fantastic read and highly recommended.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5