Let's Go BoBo

BoBo is a term for the fashionable Bourgeois Bohemian crowd that frequents places like the shops in the Marais and outdoor cafes. If we want to go BoBo, here's a list of the Top 10 Paris Pavement Cafes from the UK's Guardian. Unfortunately it is an April article and Paris probably doesn't put out the chairs and tables in March. But the Guardian does have another article on Parisian Cafes: Top 10 Paris cafes for sipping vin chaud. "In Paris, mulled wine isn't just for Christmas – it's served until early spring." So maybe we could do that instead and although it would be cheaper to heat up vin in the apartment, you wouldn't get the architecture of Cafe Marly in the Louvre, that's for sure.

I thought the term "BoBo" was a French invention but BoBos have been around for some time, as you can read in this New York Times article from 2000: In France, a New Class Reinvents the Good Life: 'Bobo' Style Has It Both Ways, which claims that the term came from David Brooks' book "Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There." (Yes, "our" David Brooks on the PBS NewsHour). Apparently the normal Frenchman or woman does not consume as much as Americans except for these BoBos.

OH, OH, and look at this third article from the Guardian: Top 10 traditional Paris bars à vins for quality wine, cheese and charcuterie. Penny, the first one they show is Le Baron Bouge, the quintessential Paris wine bar.