She Travels

On November 1, 2019, while in Paris for a girl's weekend/shopping trip, we had lunch at Le Dôme Café quite unexpectedly. It turned into a fantastic, if unexpected experience that I felt I needed to share in case you were looking for a place to stop on a trip to Paris. The original plan for lunch on that Friday was to go to Montée. When I booked our lunch reservation for Montée back on September 23, it did not even register in my mind that it was Toussaint (i.e. All Saints' D

Apologies for the delay in the publication of Part 2. Since that post, I moved from Houston to New York City and changed day jobs. Things have just now settled down enough that I had time to sit down and finish this write-up. Since it has been quite a while, just in case you need to refer to Part 1, read that here. And now on with Part 2! On Thursday, July 5, 2018, I returned for my second visit to Montée. Since my last visit, I had turned 40, and Montée gained a Michelin

In late 2016, I started planning a two-week trip to Paris for late April 2017. In my planning, I came across a number of articles lauding the Japanese chefs making their mark on the Parisian food scene. A number of different restaurants were mentioned, and based on John Talbott's review, I added Restaurant Montée to my itinerary, and was able to secure a reservation for Thursday, April 20, 2017. Montée's chef, Takayuki Nameura, opened the first iteration of Montée in Kobe i