What's your favourite restaurant?
We love to cook so we don’t eat out a great deal except in Paris. And we don’t do upscale expensive restaurants. We prefer something a little simpler.
The Bon Marché store in Paris is my favourite place to shop when I am in the capital and they have a wonderful food hall.
Le Gorille Blanc is a traditional bistro with a lively atmosphere and very good food (4, impasse Guéménée). Chez René, 14 Boulevard Saint-Germain is an old favourite of ours. It is lively, very Parisian, fine food and great atmosphere.
In the south of France, close to the village of Le Cannet, the Michelin-starred chef Bruno Oger has opened an upmarket gastronomic restaurant and alongside it the more modest Bistrot des Anges. We eat there from time to time and send all our cottage guests there, and they are always very happy.
Credit Mairie de Biartiz /Laurent Garcia
left Biarritz; above the market place, Bon Marché, below Bruno Oger at Bristot des Anges
La Place Du Marché de La Grande Epicerie de Paris, copyright DR