Discovering Our New Neighborhood

Our apartment is in a neighborhood that is not touristic. My most favorite brocante is literally fifteen minutes away on foot. 
At the turn of the centtury, the neighborhood was were many artists had their studios, Monet and Renoir to name a few.
The only thing that has changed at the restaurant on the corner is the name and clientale. The inside is the same, a rare treat in a town where chic is mode.
This neighborhood reminds me of Paris twenty years ago, and that feels like home.

 

Discovering Our New Neighborhood

 

A restaurant in the neighborhood that we like.

Called Les Frangines. For starters I had pumpkin soup with chestnuts and spice bread croutons. Delicious.

 

Discovering Our New Neighborhood

Discovering Our New Neighborhood

 

Chelsea having chocolate at tea time.

I think she had whipped cream.

 

Discovering Our New Neighborhood

 

Old zinc bar with white roses.

 

Discovering Our New Neighborhood

French Husband joined us for the weekend!

 

 



Comments

34 responses to “Discovering Our New Neighborhood”

  1. what a fabulous spot…sigh.

  2. How lovely to find a place that feels like home.

  3. It sounds wonderful!

  4. I love the look on Chelsea’s face…YUM!!

  5. Franca loves a Gallic nose. Rather Derrida-esque, she purrs.

  6. Oh so loverly, Corey!
    Do i sport FH there? Turned artist with a beard? 😉
    Hugggs,
    M.

  7. I can’t even imagine having a place in the same neighborhood that was home to the studios of Monet and Renoir…so romantic! And, if the walls inside that restaurant could talk. Those are some wonderful captures of your family in there, it must have been so much fun to be there in person and just let the imagination wander.

  8. Nancy in Solana Beach

    I love the neighborhood – Les Frangines Restaurant looks like a delightful Parisian bistro. I can’t wait to see what other places you discover in your journey.

  9. Swooning already, just at the mention of Paris 20 years ago. I can remember Paris 38 years ago and then again when I was very young. So this is exciting. 15 minutes from the brocante..then the location is perfect! Have a blessed weekend.. xo marlis

  10. Oh sigh……………………
    -very happy sigh-
    🙂
    And Thank You!!!
    “Auntie”

  11. Since I didn’t win the first stay at the apartment. I would love to be the first paying customer!!!
    Can’t wait to see what you do with the apartment. Please post more pics of the neighborhood and its surroundings.
    Dreamy…

  12. Warm. Beautiful pictures.

  13. Wait. What did I miss? Is this your old Paris apt that you are fixing up or a new one you have acquired? You’re not moving are you? Sorry, I can’t find a previous post to help me figure this out. I usually stay ‘au courant’

  14. Can’t wait to hear more about the neighborhood. As an artist, hearing that Monet and Renoir lived there is exciting. To walk where they walked and see what they saw, amazing.
    Also, thank you, for your kind note filled with a surprise, loved it.
    Have a great weekend. d

  15. 2nd paying customer please!

  16. Oh I love it. Love your neighbourhood.
    This all makes me so homesick for Geneva, and our life there, spent largely in France.
    I miss Paris…

  17. Oh my, the beard — it stays?!

  18. cigalechanat@hotmail.com

    Sending love and enjoying your adventure that I’ll never have,
    amicalement, mimi

  19. Who would order tea when you can order whipping cream with a side of chocolate?!! French husband look very dignified with the beard. 🙂 I love the zinc bar and the picture frames on the wall. Have a beautiful weekend. I hope a little brocante visit is on the agenda.

  20. jend’isère

    Such bars evoke inspiration. Could you imagine what kind of bland art Monet and his friends would have produced if they had met at a Starbucks?

  21. That little bistro looks like pure heaven!!

  22. Looks amazing. What brocante is close? Is it marche au puce?

  23. Looks amazing! What brocante is close? Marche au puce?

  24. truly home away from home-the restaurant the neighborhood now the apartement made to be home-so nice-LOVED THE WHITE ROSES!

  25. How about those wonderful maps of Paris you found. Will they become wallpaper? This is a great adventure. Thank you for sharing it with us. And I hope you don’t mind when we express some outrageous idea.

  26. There’s always a great discovery just around the corner in Paris…heavenly!

  27. Thank you for sharing so much like this with us! I imagine it as a little peephole into my future life.

  28. It sounds wonderful! especially that the brocante is close by 😉

  29. Yum, I want some of that whipped cream – er, chocolate Chelsea is having! And I must say French Husband looks very distinguished with bear, mustache, and the cute glasses!

  30. TEXAS FRANCOPHILE

    Oh my wonder which arrondissement ? Thank you for sharing your life and adventures as you do “suck the marrow out of life.” (Per Dead Poets Society)

  31. Sarah Webb

    Is it Porte de Vanves?!
    I would gladly be the 2nd paying customer after Liz!! Paris is soooo amazing. And yes, please clarify…is this s new or old apt. You have acquired?!
    Best to you and happy decorating!
    Sarah

  32. 3rd paying customer here ……

  33. rae.lange@maac.com

    oh la la….FH looks just like Sean Connery in that last photo!

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