Life as a Paris food writer when all the restaurants are closed

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The vast majority of restaurants in Paris are still closed due to the lockdown. Those that have opened their doors are only offering takeaway.

So what does an acclaimed restaurant critic like Alec Lobrano do instead?

I chatted with the American writer about all things food, his life under lockdown, and how every Paris restaurant is like a theatre.

We also talk about the future of the Paris restaurant industry, what happens when someone spots him buying frozen pizza, and where he'd go for his last meal in Paris.

Spoiler alert: He chose Le bon Georges which you can find at 45 Rue Saint-Georges, 75009 Paris.

Find out more about Alec on his website here: https://www.alexanderlobrano.com/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. coming at you from
0:05.0	Monmouth. Hang on. No, I'm not. I'm sitting right beside the Eiffel Tower. I appear to have moved
0:11.6	house. More on that at the end of the episode. But this, what you're going to hear now is all
0:17.7	about food, a food conversation. I know there are a lot of foodies out there, and one of them
0:22.4	is Lachlan Cook, who I want to give a shout out before I do anything, an email dropped into my
0:28.0	inbox, said, hello from Seattle, this is Lachlan Cook. I heard you mention that your sponsor
0:33.3	for the Airful Tower had jumped off from the podcast due to the pandemic, and that won't do it all.
0:38.5	Can I personally sponsor an episode about food?
0:41.3	I'm a huge fan of the parish restaurant scene.
0:44.6	I got in touch with Loughlin.
0:46.0	We discussed it.
0:46.9	I said, why not?
0:48.5	So it's thanks to him that I decided to go down a food alley this week, and I'm glad I did
0:54.0	because I got the chance to chat with Alec Lebrano,
0:57.1	an American and acclaimed restaurant critic from the US.
1:00.7	We chat via Zoom, by the way, and this was just before I left Montmart.
1:05.2	And we talked about how the lockdown is affecting his job.
1:07.9	We talked about the restaurant industry, Paris restaurants. There's a cool bit in there
1:12.5	where he talks about how he thinks that they're like theatres. That was fun to hear. I think you're
1:17.0	going to like that too. And we also talked about which restaurant he'd dine in if it was his last day in
1:22.0	Paris. So why wait? Let's get into it. Alec Lebrano, you've probably heard of him before if you like restaurants and restaurants reviews because he has done a lot of them. He's got a new book
1:31.1	coming out. You'll hear more about that too. But I'll be back at the end chatting with you about
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