Ice cream or chocolat chaud at Berthillon
  • 16
  • Dec
  • 2009

A landmark on Ile St-Louis after more than 3 dozen years in business, the salon de thé Berthillon offers the world’s best selection of ice cream.

Try gingerbread, bitter chocolate mousse, rhubarb, melon, kumquat, black currant and any fresh fruit in season. There are moren than 70 flavors and nothing artificial. 

Parisians flock here in such numbers that gendarmes have been called out to direct the traffic of ice cream aficionados. 

In wintertime it’s more calm and you can warm yourself over a nice cup of hot chocolat that comes in a silver can.

Berthillon, 31, Rue St-Louis-e,-l’Ile, 75004 Paris, tel 01 43 54 31 61, M° Pont Marie

Get an idea of Nabaz
  • 02
  • Nov
  • 2009
Nabaz’mob,opéra for 100 smart rabbits at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
  • 30
  • Oct
  • 2009

100 Nabaztag smart rabbits play together an opera specially composed by Antoine Schmitt et Jean-Jacques Birgé.

Inviting John Cage, Steve Reich, Conlon Nancarrow and György Ligeti, this musical and choreographic scorein three movements, transmitted via wi-fi, plays on the tension between the orchestral ensemble and the individual voices to create a strong and involved showpiece.
Schmitt and Birgé have chosen to twist the industrial object into an artwork in which the choreography of the ears, the play of light and the hundred small loudspeakers hidden in the stomachs of each rabbit create a composition with three voices built on time delay and repetition, programming and disrespect for rules.

Until the 9th of November at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

Pets at Quai de Megisserie
  • 27
  • Oct
  • 2009

When the kids are bored of the musea or the French monuments, take them for a stroll along de quai de Megisserie. There you can find cats and dogs, but also squirrels and toucans next to goats and ferrels.

It’s great browsing them, a truly unique experience

Quai de Megisserie, M°