La conserverie
  • 08
  • Mar
  • 2010

Written by Sarah Moriarity for VINGT :

The eclectic bar-restaurant, La Conserverie, at 35 bis rue du Sentier in the second arrondissement, serves some of the best cocktails in the city. This is big praise for a place has only been in business for four months and is keeping a death-defyingly low profile. As well as a selection of classic cocktails, La Conserverie’s menu boasts a series of original recipes invented by the bar’s Paris-born bartender, Tim. Our cocktail of choice is the DuMaurier – a mixture of rum, fresh lemon juice, champagne and whole raspberries, served with gasified sugar (rock candy) on the side. “You place a little bit of rock candy on your tongue and then take a sip,” explains Tim. “I created this cocktail specifically for that candy,” he adds. The result is a literal taste explosion as the sugar pops and fuses with the drink in your mouth.

“I hope that people will return for the drinks”, says Tim. With innovative original recipes that embrace a litany of different ingredients such as Bird Tongue spice, sake and white balsamic vinegar there is no doubt that they will. Along with the cocktails, La Conserverie has welcoming, international staff, a full food menu and a relaxed atmosphere, making it the perfect place to catch up with friends or even to have a quiet, taste bud-popping drink by yourself.  Cocktails are priced between €12 and €14.

La Conserverie,35 bis rue du Sentier,75002 Paris, M°Bonne-Nouvelle
Open until 2am from Monday-Saturday
The blue note
  • 03
  • Mar
  • 2010

At Musée de la vie romantique starting March 2 until July 11 2010 an important homage is presented to the famous composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-1949), specialy about his parisian years -  the last ten years of his life.

The atmophere is one of all the art (literature, painting, music) that surrounded him and influenced him . You will see important letters, paintings and drawings from famous artists borrowed from important museums around the world.

Musée de la vie romantique, 16 Rue Chaptal, 75009 Paris, M° Blanche
You can just have a stroll to the museum from the Montmartre Studio Loft.

Rose, c’est Paris
  • 27
  • Feb
  • 2010

Startin 8th of April until 11th of July 2010 at Bnf Richelieu, photo gallery.

A young woman, B., looks for her twin sister Rose who is missing. That’s the start for a look into the not so known intimistic parts of Paris taken by the camera of Bettina Rheims and written by Serge Bramly.

Hunderd photos and a movie tell the voyage at the heart of Paris between the wars. The mysterieus serie is divided in 13 episode in which you can find not so known decors of Paris. Over hunderd models and comidians did work with them such as Monica Bellucci, Valérie Lemercier, Anna Mouglalis, Naomi Campbell, Charlotte Rampling, Jean-Pierre Kalfon..

BnF / Richelieu ,58 rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris, M° Bourse-Palais Royale

The Russian Ballets at Musée de l’Opéra
  • 23
  • Feb
  • 2010

Until 23 of May an exceptional exposition can be seen at Bibliothèqe-Musée de l’Opéra.
This exposition shows a hundred works from its most important collection of Russian Ballet. The Russian Ballet gave 19 “seasons” of spectacle in Paris between 1909 an 1929. It was an imediate succes due to the renovation of the classical ballet by choreographers as Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronislava Nijinska and Georges Balanchine. But also and maybe even more important where the mutations of the decors and costums.

This manifestation is organised for the year France-Russie 2010

Opéra Garnier, 9, Rue Scribe , 75009 Paris, M° Opéra

Every day 10-17h and in function of the openingshours of the Palais Garnier.