New Openings & Horizons – A Week in Paris
Celebrating life in Paris, Paris Makers, and the strange, new, true and beautiful – forever!
🥢 A new chapter for chef Adeline Grattard, who closed her Michelin-starred Yam’Tcha on Rue Saint-Honoré at the end of last year to open the more relaxed Yam’Tcha Bistrot (in her former Café Lai’Tcha space on Rue du Jour) – open since last week! The French-Chinese fusion menu ranges from steamed bao and dumplings to gourmet snacks like prawn toast (€16) or beef consommé with foie gras (€24), and on to more indulgent mains including sweetbreads with Shaoxing sauce (€48) or Bouillabaisse Yam’Tcha (€42), and with her iconic dessert of sorrel soup with orgeat sorbet. (Call to book: 01 40 26 05 05) Also note, the Yam’Tcha boutique remains open at 4 rue Sauval for fine Chinese teas and Cantonese snacks to eat in or take away.
📸 Magnum inaugurates its new Paris Gallery and Bookshop this week at 2 Impasse Delaunay. Opening Sat, the inaugural exhibition, Martin Parr: In Plain View, pays tribute to the longtime Magnum member (1952–2025), and chimes with the major survey currently on view at the Jeu de Paume. “His humour, his clarity and his vision shaped many discussions across the agency and within the wider photographic world” says Magnum co-president Lorenzo Meloni. Visitors can also preview and collect Parr’s contribution to the latest Magnum Square Print Sale, taking place this week. While on Thu, the gallery hosts a launch and signing with photographer Harry Gruyaert and film director Cédric Klapisch, celebrating Gruyaert’s latest photobook, New York.
🏢 Inaugurated at the Rencontres d’Arles last year, the @PRINT.xp project – a collaboration between chef Alexis Bijaoui, Cracki Records and Bureau Classico – lands in Paris, taking over the multi-storey former Ménilmontant telephone exchange until 7 June. It’s a playful, improvised mix of music and food, with some art and design thrown in for good measure, across six floors. The 5th-floor restaurant and terrace, led by Alexis Bijaoui with guest chefs like Antoine Villard (Dandelion) and Ella Aflalo, serves inventive seasonal menus, including a Sunday roast!; Marthe Brejon is making her sourdough pizza on the 3rd floor in the Print’zzeria; the 4th-floor Break Room club pulses with DJ sets and party energy; plus there’s a café and bookshop, and workshops, exhibitions and installations are scattered throughout the building. Free entry!
🛍️ The Barcelona-born experimental fashion label Paloma Wool returns to Paris with a new pop-up at 51 Rue de Turenne, open through the end of the year. Part of a global tour, the space lets visitors try on pieces from the Autumn/Winter 2026 collection – anchored by the guiding narrative: “A woman with a lingering girlhood traveling the world alone, carrying a small fantastical mischievous element inside her bag” – and explore the project, which revolves around the spaces and ideas that form around the act of dressing.
🚲 And finally, Paris has a new mayor! Emmanuel Grégoire (Socialist Party) was elected last night in the second round of the municipal elections, securing a decisive victory for the united Left with over 50% of the vote. He succeeds Anne Hidalgo, who handed over the keys to the city after two terms – welcoming him at City Hall as he arrived by Vélib. With the Hôtel de Ville settled for now, attention is already shifting to the next political horizon: all eyes are on the 2027 presidential race.
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