Chic and fashionable Parisians dress their kids in Zef clothes. Designer Mariu De Andreis, the daughter of Italian fashion photographer Paolo Roversi, captures the perfect French bobo (bourgeois-bohème) look for her line of kids’ clothing Zef. The quality of fabrics, the elegant patterns, the ethnic touch, the casual yet sophisticated clothes definitely set this brand apart. It is classic and hip, timeless and modern. Sizes range from new born to 12 years old.
Also, the accessories are very tasteful and I can easily imagine grown ups shopping for themselves at Zef!

Zef 1st arrondissement
32 Rue de Richelieu
75001 Paris
tel: 01.42.60.61.04
Metro: Pyramides, Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre

M-Sat: 11am-7pm (closed for half an hour at lunch)
Closed on Sunday

zef 3rd arrondissement
15 Rue Debelleyme
75003 Paris
tel: 01.42.76.09.65
Metro: Saint-Sébastien - Froissart

7/7
M, Sun: 2pm-7pm
Tu-Sat: 11am-7pm

zef & zef piccolo, espace naissance 6th arrondissement
55 bis Rue des Saint-Pères
75006 Paris
tel: 01.42.22.02.93 / 45.22
Metro: Saint-Germain-des-Près

M-Sat: 10.30am-7pm
Closed on Sunday

zef, espace Printemps Haussmann 9th arrondissement
64 Boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris
tel: 01.42.82.50.00
Metro: Havre-Caumartin

M-Sat: 9.35am-8pm (open until 10pm on Thursday)
Closed on Sunday

zef 16th arrondissement
93 avenue Kléber
75016 Paris
tel: 01.45.53.55.89
Metro: Trocadéro

M: 2pm-7pm
Tu-Sat: 10.30am-7pm
Closed on Sunday

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“The new Apple store in Paris is located below the famous Louvre Pyramid, in the Carrousel du Louvre. The store includes a level dedicated to the Mac, as well as a separate space dedicated to the iPhone. As with other flagship stores, the space is immense, and features a glass staircase. It is opening with a team of 150 employees, and includes the usual assortment of services such as The Genius Bar, One-to-One shopping, business consulting, classes, and presentations.”
If you need guidance upon arrival look for the concierge dressed in an orange tee-shirt.

Apple Store Paris
Carrousel du Louvre - level 1
99 Rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris, France
tel: 01.43.16.78.00
Metro: Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre, Louvre-Rivoli

7/7
M-Sun: 10am-8pm

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Address and opening hours of Amapola flower shop in Paris, 11th arrondissement.

Amapola
32 Rue Faidherbe
75011 Paris
tel: 01.43.56.72.47
Metro: Faidherbe-Chaligny, Charonne

7/7
M: 12pm-8pm
T-Sat: 9.30am-8pm
Sun: 10am-1.30pm (until 6pm around Christmas time.)

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Address and opening hours of L’Artisan Fleuriste flower shops in Paris, 3rd and 7th arrondissements.

L’Artisan Fleuriste
95 Rue Vielle du Temple
75003 Paris
3rd arrondissement
tel: 01.42.78.40.40
Metro: Chemin Vert, Saint-Sebastien - Froissart

7/7
M, Sun: 10am-8pm
Tu-F: 10am-9pm

L’Artisan Fleuriste
6 Rue Commaille
75007 Paris
7th arrondissement
tel: 01.42.84.40.40
Metro: Sèvres-Babylone

M: 1.30pm-7pm
Tu, W, Th: 10.30am-8.30pm
F, Sat: 10am-9pm
Closed on Sunday

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Mexi&Co. is located in Paris’ Latin quarter and is definitely the place to visit if in need of canned or dried Mexican goods such as Serrano peppers, tomatillos, masa (cornmeal), nopales (prickly pear cactus pads), dried chili pods, hot sauce, chipotle, and tortilla chips (8€—at least it’s a big bag) or frozen corn tortillas (in a pack of 200). Mexi&Co. has enough on its shelves to help you cook a very decent Mexican meal, which is unquestionably a plus in a city like Paris where good (and cheap) Mexican restaurants are desperately lacking. Mexi&Co. is also a restaurant (I won’t talk about their food since I haven’t eaten there yet) and a catering company. Their menu offers classic items such as chips and salsa, guacamole, quesadillas, nachos and burritos. If you are looking for good tequila such as Patrón while in Paris (and you don’t mind paying twice it’s U.S price!) I know of two places where to find it: Izrael in the Marais and Publicis Drugstore’s Epicerie on the Champs-Elysées.

Mexi&Co.
10 Rue Dante
75005 Paris
tel: 01.46.34.14.12
Metro: Clunny - La Sorbone, Maubert-Mutualité

7/7
M-Sun: 9am-11pm (Food is served all day from 12pm-11pm)

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At Café des Musées, the food is seasonal, straightforward and comforting. Whether choosing the Entrecôte à la plancha with fries and salad in a tarragon dressing (17,50€) or the 19€ dinner menu with its artichoke (served with both crème fraîche and vinaigrette), mackerel and rice, and the plum tart of the day, you will find yourself enjoying a simple meal very well crafted, in a relaxed atmosphere. For dessert try the red currant clafoutis for its perfect balance of sweet and sour (the caramelized hard crust makes it more of a crème brulée than a clafoutis, but that’s just one more reason to order it!) The service is very friendly and the servers are more than happy to speak English. The menu offers a good selection of classic French dishes reasonably priced and for lunch the prix fixe menu is a bargain at 12€. The Café des Musées is open all day and serves breakfast until noon.

Café des Musées
49 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
tel: 01.42.72.96.17
Metro: Fille du Calvaire

7/7
breakfast
M-F: 8am-12pm
Sat-Sun: 10.30am-12pm

lunch
M-F: 12pm-3pm
Sat-Sun: 12pm-4pm

Dinner
 7pm-11pm

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This is not a Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai/Laotian restaurant—for those who don’t know it yet, most of the French Asian restaurants are a mix of all of those cuisines! Chine Massena is a Chinese restaurant in Paris, specializing in Cantonese food. It can serve up to 800 people and often hosts weddings, with all the perks that such a place has to offer: a dance floor and a karaoke! When walking in, do not look for the white people there aren’t any—that’s the first sign that you are in the right place. The second sign is the dim sum cart circulating around the tables with the bouchées vapeurs (that’s French for dim sum) made on the premises. The menu offers much more, such as hot pots, soups, rotisseries, barbecue, and fresh seafood from either the salt water tank or the river water one. If you don’t know what such and such dim sum is called in French (i.e: a pork bun is called brioche au porc) and you can’t order in Chinese, just look and point at what you want. At Chine Massena the quality and authenticity of the food is as good as can be found in the San Francisco Bay Area—the best of course being in China.

Chine Massena
13, Place de Vénétie
(at the level of 18, Avenue de Choisy)
75013 Paris
tel: 01.45.83.98.88
Metro: Porte de Choisy

7/7
M-Th: 8.45am-11pm
F-Sat: 8.45am-1.30am
Sun: 8.45am-1am

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The shoe shop Zoum in Paris’ 11th arrondissement offers a great and cool selection of brand new sneakers for unbelievably low prices. The brands for sale are Adidas, Asics, Le Coq Sportif, Nike, Puma and Vans. Shoes sell for as low as 25€ (kid sizes), and highest prices are 50€ (adult sizes). You’ll find a wide variety of models such as the Adidas shell-toe, Gazelle or sl 72, Asics Onitsuka Tiger Trainers, Saiko Runner or Ultimate 81 and Van’s classic slip-ons. New stocks arrive every two weeks for a constant wide selection of sneakers in many different colors, models and sizes.

Zoum
155 Rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine
75011 Paris
Metro: Faidherbe-Chaligny

7/7
M-Sun: 11am-7pm

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