My Gay Paris » Paris: What we like http://www.my-gay-paris.com Your Paris Gay Guide! Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:41:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 My Gay Paris: Alexandre Plokhov, a unique style http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-alexandre-plokhov-a-unique-style.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-gay-paris-alexandre-plokhov-a-unique-style http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-alexandre-plokhov-a-unique-style.html#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:26:19 +0000 admin http://www.my-gay-paris.com/?p=1794

Today we focus on one brand of clothing which works for one of our clients. My Gay Paris likes this style. The new collection SPRING/SUMMER 2013 was recently presented.

Alexandre Plokhov is wearing all black, with oddly tailored pants, an …

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Today we focus on one brand of clothing which works for one of our clients. My Gay Paris likes this style. The new collection SPRING/SUMMER 2013 was recently presented.

Alexandre Plokhov is wearing all black, with oddly tailored pants, an off-kilter leather vest and a Danzig hooded sweatshirt. It is likely he is the weirdest dresser to own a cashmere Versace suit, given to him as a gift when he was menswear consultant at the Italian fashion house. Before Versace, he was one-half of the game-changing duo Cloak, creating, with Robert Geller, beautifully draped men’s clothing of soft leather and stiff denim until disbanding in 2007.

For more information :

CONTACT: jojo@alexandre-plokhov.com

WEBSITE: http://alexandre-plokhov.com

FACEBOOK page : https://www.facebook.com/AlexandrePlokhov

]]> http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-alexandre-plokhov-a-unique-style.html/feed 0 My Gay Paris : “Le resto d’en face” a delicious restaurant ! http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-le-resto-den-face-a-delicious-restaurant.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-gay-paris-le-resto-den-face-a-delicious-restaurant http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-le-resto-den-face-a-delicious-restaurant.html#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:45:55 +0000 admin http://www.my-gay-paris.com/?p=1766 There’s only room for 24 diners in Sophie Imbert’s tiny—but delicious —restaurant.  Here at My Gay Paris, we’ve loved it every time we’ve paid a visit to rue Saint Sauveur in the heart of the Montorgueil neighbourhood.  Le Resto …

]]> There’s only room for 24 diners in Sophie Imbert’s tiny—but delicious —restaurant.  Here at My Gay Paris, we’ve loved it every time we’ve paid a visit to rue Saint Sauveur in the heart of the Montorgueil neighbourhood.  Le Resto d’en face is an oasis with informality and coziness, and the warm welcome offered by the owner is reinforced by the delicate classical music playing in the background.

The food itself is just like the owner: authentic, generous and traditional.  You can see her working away in the kitchen from your table.  The menu changes three times a week, because as she says herself, she’s always admired ‘mothers who have to think of something new to eat every day.’

 

She’ll also be happy to tell you about the source of her ingredients, and we were pleasantly surprised to find out how passionate she is about using quality products.  Or rather, quality producers—she knows each of them personally and meets them regularly.  The majority of them are organic, and most come are locally-sourced close to Paris.  A selection of delicious wine is available at affordable prices.

 

Speaking of which, there can be no doubt that the prices are one of the most attractive things on offer.  Given the quality of the food, the set menus of around € 20 represent great value.

 We love this cute little restaurant which offers great value for money in a neighbourhood where the prices seem to keep rising.  We’re sure that the Resto d’en face is going to become our new regular!  One last piece of advice: if you’ve got room for dessert, try the ‘intense chocolate’, which is absolutely divine.

 Bon appétit !

 Website: http://restodenface.fr/

Address:51, rue Saint Sauveur 75002 Paris – Tel : +33 (0)1 40 26 45 71

Metro: Sentier (line 3) or Etienne Marcel (line 4)

]]> http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-le-resto-den-face-a-delicious-restaurant.html/feed 0 My Gay Paris: Weekend, an amazing movie http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/weekend-an-amazing-movie.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weekend-an-amazing-movie http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/weekend-an-amazing-movie.html#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:41:09 +0000 admin http://www.my-gay-paris.com/?p=1554

Week-end
A film by Andrew Haigh
With Tom Cullen, Chris New, Jonathan Race

Week-end is a movie about two guys who meet. The movie takes places in the London area, today.
Russel decides to go to a gay club. He …

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Week-end
A film by Andrew Haigh
With Tom Cullen, Chris New, Jonathan Race

Week-end is a movie about two guys who meet. The movie takes places in the London area, today.
Russel decides to go to a gay club. He eventually meets Glen and comes home with him.
During a weekend, they meet and share their life stories, because they feel lonely, and they are ready to open up to one another, without the filter of society, of the others.
In our opinion, Week-end is a movie which could be even qualified as the first gay movie, in the way that it depicts so accurately what being gay is about.

It is the story of what we experience as individuals and as a worldwide community, and beyond, it’s about how meeting someone, even for a week-end, can change our lives forever, because meeting another person can make you change the way you feel about the world, and about yourself.


This is a movie about our common quest: not only accepting ourselves as gay people, not only about make other people to accept it, but, even further, about accepting and rejecting love. Being gay is not simple, not only because we are a minority, and because the rights acquired over the past decades are never given. Everyone has a different opinion about our involvement in a relationship, in politics, in sex.

In a broader perspective, Week-end shows that being gay is not only a fight for ourselves or for us: it is about accepting oneself, as a person, as a human being, as an individual. The process of accepting ourselves can last forever, can last a whole life, and can be permanent, everyday. Meeting someone is opening up to a quest and a fight. It is about being ready to share someone’s life, and how this can, in return, change yours. This is all what Week-end is about.

To check out where it is playing, visit allocine.com and search for “week-end”.

]]> http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/weekend-an-amazing-movie.html/feed 0 My Gay Paris: Interview of the Australian artist and politicial David Hinchliffe, customer of Absolu Living http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/interview-of-the-australian-artist-and-politicial-david-hinchliffe.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-of-the-australian-artist-and-politicial-david-hinchliffe http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/interview-of-the-australian-artist-and-politicial-david-hinchliffe.html#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:39:20 +0000 admin http://www.my-gay-paris.com/?p=1490 Absolu Travel : How did you become a painter ? You have been painting from a very early age, how did this develop?
My father, my grand-father, my brother are journalists. We have a very strong writing ethic. But before …

]]> Absolu Travel : How did you become a painter ? You have been painting from a very early age, how did this develop?
My father, my grand-father, my brother are journalists. We have a very strong writing ethic. But before my father became a journalist, he also painted, as a young man. He was very good and won competitions. When I was growing up and also won competitions, my father said that it was very good, but also that artists lead miserable lives, that they don’t make any money, that people don’t respect them. He did anything possible to discourage me. So I became a politician! But people had even less respect for politicians… But I’ve been painting and sold paintings since I was 10 years old. I had a number of passions. Painting was one, but I also wanted to change things, and be involved in the political process. And I’ve done both.

A.T: Can you tell us more about the way you work, and your creative process?
20 years ago, I would have had a totally different answer. Back then, I was into expressionnism, abstraction, conceptual painting. I wanted my work to be cutting-edge modern painting. Now my work has become more and more conservative. I respond as a visual artist to the things of beauty around me. I’m less concerned about making powerful statements that I am about paiting something that moves me. I feel that a lot of young artists feel the need to reinvent painting. I no longer have that feeling. I paint oil on canvas. I throw a lot of paint on, water. I cover the surface. When I travel, I build my paintings from photographs.

A.T: If you could choose one work of art, which has inspired you the most, what would it be?
It’s a very hard question. Rather than one painting, Picasso and Matisse were the great masters of the last century. I also love Bacon, Hockney. I saw my first Picasso painting in Brisbane. It was La belle hollandaise. It’s a small painting from the pink period. That didn’t change my work but I wanted to know more about Picasso. Picasso said that modern art is mostly a fraud. He talked about learning how to paint, and then unlearning. Now I understand what he means.

A.T: How do you feel about Paris, how do you perceive the city?
It’s the most beautiful city in the world. I love the idea that certains parts of the city haven’t changed a lot. Sure, there are cars, and telephones, and computers… But essentially, the city is the same beautiful city that it was 100 or 150 years ago. Paris is a person to me. I’m in love with her.

A.T: How do you feel about the Marais in particular?

The first place I stayed at when I came to Paris in 1974, it was a youth hostel in the Marais. I don’t know where it is now. The building would still be there. Obviously, in the last 30 or 40 years, the Marais has become more and more popular, trendy, stylish, and therefore more expensive. Back then it was not considered a fashionable place for tourists to be staying. It has changed like all inner-city areas of all the big cities around the world. They discovered the center of gravity, the center of their soul, in the old parts of the city. I’m also an urban politician. The city is both my job and my passion. The area I represent in Brisbane is in the center of the city.

A.T: You will soon retire from your political career, what are your projects?
Painting. That’s it. I’ve been a consellor for 24 years.

A.T:  How did your stay at AbsoluTravel apartment go?
Fantastic. I always travel to apartments, I don’t like hotels. It is exactly as it is advertised. It’s a good price. It gave me the ability to paint.

]]> http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/interview-of-the-australian-artist-and-politicial-david-hinchliffe.html/feed 0 My Gay Paris: The Eagle Has Landed Four Years On http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-the-eagle-has-landed-four-years-on.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-gay-paris-the-eagle-has-landed-four-years-on http://www.my-gay-paris.com/gay-paris/what-we-like/my-gay-paris-the-eagle-has-landed-four-years-on.html#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:04:30 +0000 Sam http://www.my-gay-paris.com/?p=1505 It might only have celebrated its fourth birthday last week, but Paris gay bar the Eagle has certainly managed to ruffle a few feathers since it opened back in 2008.

The slightly provocative name might give you something of an …

]]> It might only have celebrated its fourth birthday last week, but Paris gay bar the Eagle has certainly managed to ruffle a few feathers since it opened back in 2008.

The slightly provocative name might give you something of an idea of what to expect—especially if you’ve visited an Eagle in New York or London. To be clear, there’s no connection with this Eagle and the others (at least as far as we know) but the style is very much the same, ranging from cruisey to downright sleazy.

Now a firm favourite on the Marais party circuit, it has two very distinct areas with two very distinct atmospheres. Upstairs, on the main level, is a friendly bar area which doesn’t differ too much from some of the other gay venues in the neighbourhood, though there is a strict men-only policy and you’re a lot less likely to hear campy music. The other visitors, though, are what you’d expect from a bar which has plenty of space to play in the dark room downstairs …

Things are a little more exciting downstairs, though, where you can find darkrooms, a maze, cages and more. We’re sure you don’t need us to tell you what you’ll find down there, but we’re happy to report that they keep a very clean house!

We hear the fourth birthday party was a blast, and we wish the Eagle well in the future!

WHAT: The Eagle Bar
WHERE: 33 bis, rue des Lombards, métro Châtelet (or walk from the Marais)
WHEN: every night til late

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