Start us off with an overview. Stepping into Café de Flore is like stepping into a time capsule, into an era when the Left Bank was a bohemian enclave for the likes of Pablo Picasso and Ernest ...

So quintessential a Left Bank designer is Sonia Rykiel that the Café de Flore has named a sandwich ... long before the Japanese and Belgians arrived in Paris, this black-clad, flame-haired ...