9 september, 2015Inga kommentarer

Lunch at Hôtel Costes

Wednesday done! Wednesdays are the most theoretical days for me in school with Topics in Fashion history as first class and the Pattern drafting for 5(!) hours in the afternoon. They will be challenging, as I am not very good and not super passionate about either. Both are very needed though to become a better designer (gotta know who came up with draping to know the context fashion is in! Gotta know how to make patterns from scratch!) so I will really try to do my best.

But on a more luxurious note, (I have promised myself to blog about all the eating this past weekend) here comes the second part of the eating out post. Oscar had arranged a table for two for lunch at Hôtel Costes! Such a lovely surprise. I have only read about it in glossy magazines so it was a real treat to actually go there. Here are some pictures from the patio we're we sat.

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 It's a very lovely place with beautiful surroundings where you can people watch to the max, but the staff and service was quite the opposite. So bad! The girl that showed us to the table just waved a little with her hand and flopped the menus on the table (she almost missed it) and the girl that served us poured a quarter of the very overpriced fizzy water on the table when she was serving me. Not as much as a word, and no new napkin (mine was drenched). I also had to ask for my drink (a lovely jug of Pimm's) another time and the food came after 50 minutes. The waitress claimed it was a very hard to put together dish (umm, a cold sandwich...), but the couple next to us got theirs 20 minutes before us and they arrived later than us.

Yes, you might think I'm being picky and all right now, but shouldn't I be? It's a super fancy hotel and I always have expectations and they are certainly raised when you enter a place like this. Anyways, the food was good and the overall experience very nice.

After that we walked, walked, walked and then walked a little bit more. And booked a table for the evening at L'atelier Saint Georges. Hamburgers! We usually try at least one hamburger when we travel and since this weekend had quite the vacay feel we didn't want to miss out. The restaurant is situated close to where I live, in South Pigalle which is kind of an up and coming area. There are lots of nice restaurants there and the streets are very cozy. For instance, you have the hotel Amour here, which some friends stayed at and recommended for the nice ambiance in the area. Anyways, to the burgers. They were very French burgers. I had one with blue cheese and Oscar had one with goose liver. Very interesting tastes! I would prefer Oscar's over mine, and it was that one who had gotten a 5 star in the burger blog of Paris that I found before heading there. The fries where nice too, and the staff friendly (a bit stressed) and the decor very nice and a little bit hipster. (It was also VERY warm in there, dress appropriately!)

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After that we headed down to Avenue George V to meet up with some fellow Swedes at a new restaurant/club called Yeeels for a drink. A nice way to end the night!

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6 september, 2015Inga kommentarer

Weekend eating

Sitter i sängen med en kopp mintte, avokadomackor och en kamera fullproppad med matbilder från helgen som gått. Oscar var ju här och ett intresse vi har gemensamt är att äta mat. God mat, at that. Vi rev av en hel radda med fantastiska restauranger under helgen, tydligen har jag prickat in en jackpot på område att bo i. South Pigalle, även kallat So-Pi, är fyllt till bredden med restauranger som får höga betyg på tripadvisor. Så via denna fenomenala internetguide styrde jag första middagen på fredagkvällen: Bar Italia Brasserie. Ett yttepyttelitet ställe med fantastiskt trevligt personal och sjukt god italiensk pasta. Proseccon vi fick till fördrink kan vara den godaste jag någonsin druckit. Efterrätten (som jag lyckades få Oscar att dela med mig, small step for man but a big step for Sandra!) var en tiramisu med nutella i. Mindblowing. Hög femma till Bar Italia från oss!  P1030774 P1030773 P1030770 P1030769P1030776P1030775Efter detta promenerade vi nån gata bort till Dirty Dick för att dricka drinkar i tiki-kontext med skojiga namn och dekorationer. P1030781Inspirerade av fransmännens sätt att ha socialisera sent på kvällarna tog vi sedan oss bort till Palais de Tokyo och Monsieur Bleu, en restaurang med en trevlig uteservering med utsikt över Eiffeltornet. Jag skulle vilja säga avslappnat, fast det är det ändå inte jämfört med ex Göteborg (världens mest avslappnade stad). Det är ganska vanligt med klacktvång för damer och jag har hittills brutit ganska rejält mot den regeln, och igår dök jag dessutom upp i oversizad stickad tröja och armyjacka och ådrog mig sträng blick från vakten i insläppet. Jag älskar att klä upp mig men inser att jag lämnade många klänningar och klackar hemma och helt enkelt vant mig vid det svenska, mer laidback modet. En liten kulturkrock modemässigt sett.P1030798 P1030794 P1030791 Efter det så tog vi oss hem till Montmartre och däckade. Typ i samma stil fortsatte helgen, men det får jag återkomma till i morgon. Jag måste förbereda lite inför första dagen (riktiga första, med lektioner och allt) i skolan. Digital fashion studio och Collection concept development står på schemat. Är så pepp!

Hoppas du haft en skön helg du med, à bientôt!