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24/09/2026

We tested two restaurants this week. We're recommending one.

Apicius was the one. The garden is the kind of secluded, balmy space where people actually come to enjoy dinner, not to be seen doing it, which is rarer in Paris than it should be. Service struck the balance we're always looking for: attentive without ever hovering, the sort of charm that makes you forget anyone's working. The food is classic, done properly, the fish in particular was worth the trip on its own.

We'd send clients here for a splurge without hesitation.

The other place, less so. Not every test makes the list, and that's rather the point of testing.

21/09/2026

A car broke down on the way to pick up a client for their airport transfer. Nothing dramatic, just bad luck at the worst possible moment.

The driver called the hotel. The hotel sent their own driver instead. Nobody argued about who'd pay for what, that got sorted quietly, afterwards, between the people whose job it is to sort it. The client walked out, got in a car, went to the airport. That's the whole story, as far as they were concerned.

This is mostly what the job actually is: not preventing every single thing that can go wrong (nobody can promise that), but making sure it never becomes your client's problem, or yours, at 3am from a different time zone.

17/09/2026

Three things we're looking forward to this autumn.

First, the vines turning gold. We'd booked rooms at Château de Béru in 2022 when the stately ones were suddenly requisitioned, a champagne biopic had taken over the best rooms in the house, and we found ourselves elsewhere while a crew turned a Burgundy estate into a stand-in for Champagne. Good story now, less good at check-in.

Second, market stalls doing what they do best this time of year, cèpes, girolles, the whole forest laid out in wicker baskets, usually with someone's grandmother elbowing past you for the good mushrooms.

And third, just the light. That particular gold that autumn does in France, on water, on trees, on everything, for about three weeks before it all turns to rain.

We'll take all three, in whichever order the weather gives them to us.

14/09/2026

Some restaurants we're genuinely excited to go back to, or send clients to.

In Paris, Argile, tucked into the 9th near Gare Saint-Lazare, where chef Romain Lamon's cooking is generous rather than clever, a mushroom bathed in a deep, savoury sauce with pearl onions and croutons, the kind of dish that rewards a second glass of something pink just to keep pace with it.

In Reims, Brasserie Le Jardin, the more relaxed sibling of Domaine Les Crayères, set in an outbuilding within the park with its own veranda facing the herb garden. This is where you send a client who wants the Crayères experience at lunch pace: a whole roast carved tableside, no rush, no fuss.

And in Beaune, La Table du Square, a bistro on the ring road with black-and-white stripes on the walls, portraits of Gabin and de Funès looking on, and a wine list running past a thousand references, which, this being Beaune, is exactly as it should be. Even the fish comes with real technique, a char-grilled lettuce heart and a butter sauce doing far more work than a side dish usually gets to.

Three different registers, three reasons to keep going back.

10/09/2026

Three exhibitions worth planning around this autumn.

First, on 30 September, the MAD marks "Look! 40 ans de mode au musée," forty years since the museum's fashion department was founded, with forty pieces chosen to trace the story, some so recognisable they need no introduction, others quietly extraordinary once you're standing in front of them.

On 6 October, the Musée d'Orsay opens "Mary Cassatt: The Choice of Independence," the first major French retrospective dedicated to the American painter who spent most of her career in Paris, working alongside Degas and Morisot as one of the only women fully embedded in the Impressionist circle. It's overdue, and it's worth the trip on its own.

And on 9 October, the Fondation Louis Vuitton opens "Gustave Fayet, Collector, Designer," the collection of one extraordinarily well-connected man, ten paintings by Van Gogh among them, alongside Gauguin, Redon, Cézanne and Toulouse-Lautrec, much of it never exhibited before.

Three very different rooms, opening across ten days of each other. All worth building a Paris week around.

(Pictured: Past exhibition at MADParis, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, ahead of what's still to come this autumn.)

07/09/2026

Anyone can walk into Cravan. Not everyone knows that its cocktail masterclasses are worth the detour, learning from some of the best bartenders in the city, in a decor that looks lifted from a magazine, often with the whole floor to yourselves.

That's the whole model: trusted relationships with boutique properties, guides, drivers and artisans across France, not a database. It means we can tell you when a glossy option looks good on paper but won't deliver the experience your client expects.

The goal is simple: trips that run smoothly and feel genuinely well-matched to the traveller.

03/09/2026

Flight number three for the file: from 2 April 2027, United will fly nonstop from Newark to Luxembourg.

For our purposes, the real story isn't Luxembourg City itself. It's what sits within reach of it: Metz, 45 minutes away, its Gothic cathedral and riverside quarters barely registering as a detour, and Strasbourg, just over two hours on, close enough for a full day among Alsace's half-timbered villages and the Christmas markets that draw crowds from across Europe every winter.

Even with the route live today, this year's markets are already close to fully booked. The timing is right to start planning next winter's, properly.

Land in Luxembourg, and an entire arc of Alsace-Lorraine, the kind that rarely gets built into a US-originating itinerary because it's never had an easy point of entry, becomes genuinely reasonable to work into a longer trip. This route quietly opens up a part of France that's been hard to reach.

31/08/2026

Flight number two for the file: from April 2027, United will fly nonstop from Washington Dulles to Toulouse.

Landing here doesn't mean staying here. Toulouse is a place to arrive, settle in for a night, eat properly, and push on, pink brick and pointed spires giving way within a couple of hours to Bordeaux, the Basque coast, or the Dordogne, without a Paris detour eating into the trip.

For the one night that makes sense, Maison Soclo does it right: a glass-roofed courtyard, a garden gone slightly and deliberately wild, the kind of boutique warmth that makes an overnight stop feel considered rather than convenient.

Then there's the market. Foie gras sliced to order, cheese wheels the size of dinner plates, cherries and saucisson piled together without apology. It's reason enough to build in an extra hour before the next leg of the trip.

27/08/2026

A direct flight just landed on our radar. From June 2027, United will fly nonstop from Newark to Marseille.

For years, Nice carried nearly all of Provence's traffic, and Marseille was treated as a stopover at best.

That's changing.

The Vieux-Port has some of the best seafood in the country, the MuCEM and the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean beside it add a cultural depth worth building a day or two around, and the addresses have caught up too: dinner at Grenat, or a stay at Les Bords de Mer right on the Corniche, or a few nights at Les Roches Blanches, tucked between the marina and the Calanques in Cassis.

This doesn't replace Nice. It gives us a second serious point of entry into the south, and the ability to shape an itinerary around whichever city actually suits the client, rather than defaulting to the one with the easier flight.

25/08/2026

A no is not a wall.

A family once asked us for the Riviera, Provence, the Loire, Normandy, Dordogne and Paris. In two weeks.

We said no. Not because it couldn't be booked. It could. But it would have meant one night here, one night there, more hours spent packing and unpacking than actually being anywhere. A holiday that looked full on paper and felt empty in the car.

So we said no to the six regions, and yes to three of them, done properly.

That's the choice behind every itinerary we build: fewer places, each one properly explored, because being somewhere matters more than having been everywhere.

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