The Pleasures of Paris

the long version

No city gives its visitors more pleasure than Paris, and no visitor has responded more enthusiastically than Michael Bond, the creator of Paddington Bear, who for over a decade now has made it his home. Bond’s greatest pleasures, he happily admits, are gastronomic ones, and the notes he started to keep on Parisian eating-places – for the benefit of guests at his Montrmartre apartment – soon turned into a major survey as he warmed to his research.