Music enthusiasts of all kinds will love a trip to the Cité de la Musique. Housing concerts, exhibitions, a library, and an excellent museum tracing the history of musical instruments, the Cité is the cultural center for musical life [more...]

You may long for a fish taco from a stand in Baja California or a giant burrito from your favorite L.A. Mexican joint. Living in Paris, it's difficult to find the "real thing" - and by "real" I mean something remotely "spicy." But there [more...]

Cosmic Galerie sits in a converted old garage in Belleville. The neighborhood is the new, more authentic (read not-so-hipster) center of contemporary art in Paris, with galleries and artist studios popping up in old workshops. This is [more...]

You'll find superb views on the winding paths of the Buttes-Chaumont park. It's hilly, so bring your hiking shoes. The park is so close and yet feels so natural, poetic, and at times exotic: gypsies lived here for a century, from the [more...]

If you and your date are both science or math types, you can go hear some of the top researchers give free lectures at the Cité des Sciences on topics like… “How to detect exoplanets,” “The fabulous destiny of the square root [more...]

Did you know there are Hell’s Angels riding the quaint streets of Paris? If your date doesn’t believe you, take her/him to FTW bar (nice shorthand for “F*** the World”). Not only Angels but all of Paris’ bikers rendezvous [more...]

Date likes to ride his/her bike? You can go rent bikes or get them repaired at a bike store with a strange concept – bicycles and … chocolate. All sorts of chocolate while you wait: cookies, bars, drinks… You can go ride around [more...]

Fans of the great outdoors trapped in the city can get their fix by having a date at La Geode, an IMAX cinema with a humongous hemispherical screen located inside a giant silver sphere. This makes documentaries with sweeping scenery and [more...]

It may seem strange, but if you make it up to the 19th arrondissement and happen to run into the parc des Buttes-Chaumont, you will see a roman temple perched atop a hill in one of Paris's finest parks. Well, the temple is fake, of [more...]