11 January 2021

Paris temptations

Most of the photos in this slideshow are ones I've taken of restaurant signs and awnings in Paris. There are plenty to choose from — according to Trip Advisor, there are about 15,500 such establishments in the city. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, all of them will remain closed until February 15. That's five more weeks of confinement for us.


8 comments:

  1. Le Pure Café - strange name for a café. I wonder if it means anything?

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  2. That's a long shut down. I'm hoping to get the vaccine next week, but don't have an actual appointment yet. Each state is on it's own here.

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  3. Here's a review I found of Le Pure Cafe: The "heep-ster" atmosphere at lunch is abso-lutely intolerable (unless you happen to be one, in which case turn on your laptop and start smoking your brains out), but the freestanding, monumental horseshoe of a zinc at Le Pure Café has got to be seen.

    So it's kind of a cool hipster place, which is I think what the english word pure is meant to convey.

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    1. As you noticed, "pure" is an English word. Pure, in French, is the qualifying adjective of a feminine word. So, thet's why le pure café doen't make sense.

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  4. I guess Le Pure was featured in the 2005 movie "Before Sunset" with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Good film if you haven't seen it.

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    1. Thanks for that information, D. Le Pure vise les hipsters purs et durs si j'ai pigé.

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    2. Before Sunset is available on Amazon Prime in the U.S., but not Amazon Prime in France. Go figure. I was hoping to get to see it, and I see it has 95% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I've seen several of Julie Delpy's movies but not that one.

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