Petit déjeuner @ Dolce e Amaro
I don't like conversation at breakfast time so we took breakfast separately each morning. I found a delightful Italian cafe called Dolce e Amaro in the Rue Bourdaloue just around the corner from the hotel and right next to the entrance to the Notre Dame de Lorette Metro station. Lovely people and a peaceful breakfast. A petit déjeuner of a hot drink (Earl Grey tea), orange juice and a croissant was €4.50 - which was cheaper than the cafe opposite Hotel France Albion where I was staying. They also do very nice filled Italian breads for lunch.
The view of the Rue de Châteaudun and Notre Dame de Lorette Metro from my stool in Dolce e Amaro8" x 10", pencil in Moleskine sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Naturally I took my sketchbook with me
- on Monday I sketched the view from my stool - a contre jour view looking out the door to people making their way to work
- on Tuesday I sketched my breakfast
petit déjeuner8" x 10", pencil and coloured pencils in Moleskine sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
- and on Wednesday I sketched the arrangement of confiture on the top of the counter
Les Confitures8" x 10", pencil and coloured pencils in Moleskine sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Links:
- Dolce e Amaro, 1 Rue Bourdaloue, 75009 Paris, France (+33 1 48 74 3188)
7 comments:
Oooh, nice...like you, I like quiet breakfasts, Katherine.
We used to have a wonderful baked-on-site French bakery on the Plaza in KC; I'd drive 30 miles just to get some perfectly made French bread. I miss it! Wouldn't have thought they'd disappear in the UK, though...
It's the so-called march of progress Cathy - the one which deems out of town hypermarkets as being the way to do shopping rather than protecting small businesses and local business owners!
I use them myself - but that's because they've already killed off most of the local shops and I don't have much choice!
Where you do find local bakeries here they've sold out by lunchtime!
I know, and we lose so much! And yes, same here...we do have a local donut shop, and although I'm not much on donuts, they also make terrific biscuits. No bread, though. Used to be a mom-and-pop bakery that offered wonderful breads, here--miss them, too. And actually, there's one in the next town over that makes nice 9-grain and sourdough--we drive over there, when I'm not up to making bread.
Doesn't surprise me that the bakeries are sold out! Loved your breakfast sketches...
Great sketches, but I do love those confitures!
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Ooh, I can just smell those croissants... Les Confitures would make a stunning finished painting too.
Très beau style, j'aime beaucoup.
Fantastic palette in your contre-jour breakfast sketch!
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