![]() Restaurant Eslava (Calle Eslava 3) is more modern, a little more special – the small clams are terrific. If you like fish go to Cañabota (Calle Orfila 3) I have the marinated sardines. Casa Moreno (Calle Gamazo 7) has great things in tins and excellent encurtidos (pickles). Las Columnas (Alameda de Hércules 19) is old-fashioned but good for a glass of wine and some tortilla. If you pass Cinco Jotas (Calle Castelar 1), it has a kind of chorizo called morcon and does good padron peppers. Casa Morales (Calle García de Vinuesa 11) is another incredible bar where you can stand and have a caña (a glass of beer), tapas and charcuterie. ![]() ![]() At Bodeguita Romero (Calle Harinas 10) you should have papas aliñás – boiled potatoes dressed with olive oil, sherry vinegar, onion and pepper – and the oxtail. You need to have the jamón, which they carve for you, and eat it with some sherry – you’ll be in heaven. Las Teresas (Calle Sta Teresa 2) is small but perfect. I love to be on the street, getting lost, seeing people passing by, and going bar to bar. Patissier Cyril Lignac (9 Rue Bayen) is innovative in his approach, but he knows how to make a nice croissant andpain au chocolat.Ĭhef-owner of Pizarro and José Tapas Bar, London Le 404 (69 Rue des Gravilliers) is a north African restaurant the food is delicious, there’s music, it’s fun – and it does brunch. Kei Kobayashi’s cuisine at Restaurant Kei (5 Rue Coq Héron) is exceptional – anchored in traditional Japanese, but influenced by French technique and recipes. Go for celeriac remoulade or oysters, then opposite to Café de Flore (172 Boulevard Saint-Germain) for coffee, where all the intellectuals used to go. Brasserie Lipp (151 Boulevard Saint-Germain) is a classic. Le Bon Georges (45 Rue Saint-Georges) has a beautiful exterior and food. I would go back for the blanquette de veau. Chez Monsieur (11 rue du Chevalier St-Georges) is more modern in decor and the cooking is a bit more refined. It does the traditional cuisine that I love – say, sweetbreads and french fries, with a nice burgundy. I discovered Chez Georges (1 Rue du Mail) quite a few years ago and I think it’s my favourite. Parisians go away in August but I think there are adventures to be had in an empty city. Follow her on Twitter right here.I like Paris in the summer. Sign up here for our daily Amsterdam email and be the first to get all the food/drink/fun in town.Įlysia Brenner is a writer, editor, and all-around Amsterdam expert. Hoping to appease opponents, Uber is replacing UberPOP with the more legal budget variants UberX and Uber Taxis, where all the drivers are officially certified, but the struggle with The Man goes on. The government, however, has definitively stated this version is not legal, fining the organization and its drivers hundreds of thousands of euros so far and raiding the massive mobile development HQ in the center of town twice (though users haven’t faced any fines). The cheaper UberPOP option is harder to find these days, though it’s still around. (There’s also an even fancier UberLUX or a more spacious UberSUV.) Prices don’t differ significantly from regular taxis, though. As it stands, the higher-end Uber Black is often the only option available, using legally registered cars and drivers. Now the government has turned its spotlight on Uber, whose drivers also at one point faced physical threats from local taxi drivers. as long as renters collect and pay a tourist tax for each guest. Note for tourists: any hemp, hemp seed, or hemp oil products you buy outside a coffeeshop contain no THC and are legal to bring home! Flickr/FrançoisFromFranceĪfter a protracted struggle with the city in the names of safety and regulation, Airbnb was given the official go-ahead (or at least a “please continue”) in December 2014. Hash (including some seriously strong varieties) is still on the menu, though. Hash oil, by the way, is classified as a hard drug and thus totally NOT legal. Tourists are still welcome in the remaining coffeeshops. The good news? That locals-only weed pass you heard about does NOT apply in Amsterdam. The government says this model isn’t legal, but so far they’ve been “tolerated.” It’s locals only, but members get higher-quality bud for cheaper. Enter Amsterdam’s first cannabis social club: Tree of Life. Plus a bunch of coffeeshops (almost half) have been shut down for various reasons - leaving a “mere” 200 in the city. Growers, even small scale, have been raided with increasing frequency, scaring away some of the smaller, quality-focused operations. They’ll also kinda, mostly look the other way for coffeeshops, but there’s no legal way to supply them. Basically, cops will look the other way for up to 5g per person or plants per household, as long as you’re not selling it. It actually falls in this murky gray area the Dutch call “Tolerance” - for weed, this dates back from 1976.
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