Make it an evening of board games with friends at Apparemment Café, where comfortable couches make this café a cozy living room away from home. There are also rows of books ready for the borrowing, so feel free to drop by for an [more...]

The Musée Carnavalet houses all sorts of artifacts that relate to the history of Paris. Over 100 rooms in two beautiful old mansions (the 16th-century Hôtel Carnavalet and the 17th-century Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau) tell the [more...]

This Old Regime building is as much a part of the French History Museum as the artifacts and documents held inside. The 15th-century Hôtel de Soubise was renovated in the 17th and 18th centuries and has housed the National Archives [more...]

Gérard Mulot is famed to sell the most mouth-watering croissants in Paris, but there is so much more: sandwiches, chocolate, desserts...even the baguette is worth a try. Stop in for a snack or a quick lunch if you're wandering around [more...]

From late November to January each year, the Mairie du 3eme is illuminated with pretty blue lights. As you make your way to the holiday display, stroll up and down rue de Bretagne and enjoy the lighted crowns that decorate each [more...]

If you’ve never had a reason to stop there before, check out the metro station Arts et Métiers in the 3eme, which is decorated to look like you’re on the inside of an old-fashioned submarine, or maybe just a giant machine (look up [more...]

If you're into odd outings, take your date to this museum dedicated to France's favorite traditional passtime, hunting. You will see plenty of old hunting weapons and an entire room filled with stuffed animals. Not the cute fuzzy kind [more...]