Le Marais, Paris
It looks like a taco shop. It is much more than that.
One of the world's fifty best cocktail bars sits behind a small door at the back of this restaurant in the Marais. The tacos are also excellent.
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Provence
The Lavender Guide: Provence
Which areas peak when, how to arrive before the crowds, and the fields that never appear on any recommended list.
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Côte d'Azur
The Cannes Film Locations Guide: Côte d'Azur
Fourteen films across seventy years of Hollywood on the Côte d'Azur — Hitchcock to Iron Man, Bardot to Russell Crowe, Cannes through Monte-Carlo and inland to the Luberon, plus both adaptations of Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger 1958 and Durga Chew-Bose 2024). Part 1 walks each film with trailer, stills, editorial note, and the specific locations it touched — including the seven-location version of Magic in the Moonlight (Villa Eilenroc, Hôtel Belles Rives, Villa La Renardière, Château du Rouet, Hôtel Negresco, Opéra de Nice, and the Côte d'Azur Observatory). Part 2 lays out the one-, two-, or three-day tour we'd run if you have a Festival break — Day 1 Coastal Loop, Day 2 Inland Pilgrimage, Day 3 the Magic in the Moonlight Day — with driving directions, lunch anchors, and the order we'd run it in.
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Notes from the field.
You don't have to stay there.
A 1950s seaside hotel on the Esterel coast, two pools — one carved into the rocks, one on the deck above — a small daily allotment of pool passes, and the better way to approach Saint-Tropez.
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A Map to the Riviera Hollywood Has Been Quietly Sketching for Seventy Years
During the Festival, the Croisette belongs to the cameras. The rest of the Côte d'Azur has been a film set far longer than it has been a red carpet — and most of the locations are still there, waiting for an afternoon to spare.
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Detour, Grasse
The first table on opening night. The 3 PM dinner the south of France does not have. A new restaurant from people we knew before they were running it.
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Lavender in Provence: Timing, Fields, and What Most Guides Get Wrong
Timing, fields, and the map we have been refining since 2011.
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A Day in the Vines: The Perfect Provence Wine Route from the Côte d'Azur
The rosé vineyards of the Var are an hour from Nice and almost nobody on the coast makes the trip. Here is the route our advisors use — four estates, one outstanding lunch, and a back road that makes the drive worth it on its own.
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Semiramis Hotel
If you prefer the ordinary beige, big box, generic business hotel, don’t stay at the Semiramis- the visionary brainchild of art patron Dakis Joannou and creation of famed industrial designer Karim Rashid. Located in the upscale Kifissia neighborhood of Athens, the Semiramis is the farthest thing from traditional, liberally displaying a rainbow of colors across
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Le Pigalle Hotel
If I had any hip Parisian friends with a tasteful flat in Pigalle, I would expect it to feel a lot like Le Pigalle Hotel which blends retro furniture and decor with a modern design aesthetic, and of course there would be a dance poll in the living room, constantly burning candles from Le Labo, and DJ’s spinning the latest trendy tunes.
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