Luxury in Paris Luxury stories and style tips for your travel to Paris

Green tea or black tea regardless you MUST visit the most fabulous French salon in Paris. With over 500 different teas, it’s your best souvenir after chocolate. Mariage Frères offers an encyclopedia-like menu of tea selections, a tea sommelier of sorts who tastes each tea to make sure its brewed perfectly and exquisit...ely delicate cakes and pastries. Their tea boutique offers great gift ideas of all things tea beautifully packaged. Try their Bourbon jam.
Mariage Fres 30 rue du Bourg-Tibourg, Tel. 01 42 72 28 11 Metro: Hotel de Ville http://www.mariagefreres.com/
Don't forget to sip your tea in your very own Luxury Parisian Rental

Those of you blessed or smart enough to forgo a Paris hotel and book a Paris vacation rental hopefully a Paris Luxe apartment should know about Picard. This is first rate gourmet food that you will adore. In a blind taste test Picard’s goodies will rival a Paris restaurant. Stores are scattered all over the Paris. It is a bit weird to only see rows of freezer cases but once you've sampled, voila.. ain't no turnin back. www.picard.fr.
Don't forget to eat in a Paris Luxury Apartment.

Fashion Designer Christian Lacroix is selling his Paris apartment for 2 million euros which is $2.6 million US dollars. The apartment is housed in a 17th century building in the chic Marais district.
With a 13 feet high ceilings, gilded moldings in the master bedroom and French doors, this gorgeous 2000 sq ft space with a 200 sq ft terrace has four bedrooms, library and three bathrooms.

Let's face it Paris is not an athletic town. Okay you might spot a jogger or two in the Jardins du Luxembourg, a few actually hard core training for the Paris marathon held in May, www.parismarathon.com. This is an event that most Parisians will admit is strictly spectator. The biggest crowds are reserved for the third week in July with the final stage of Tour de France(www.letour.fr) races through Paris before final print on the Champs Elysees.

On Saturdays, smart Parisians lined up to a tiny chocolate boutique on rue Bonaparte for their sugar or let's say cocoa fix. Pastry genius Pierre Hermes forms chocolate into stylish shapes which he parades during fashion week ala catwalk. Don't worry, if chocolate isn't your thing, the macaroons are heaven sent. 72 rue Bonaparte, 6th arrondissement

Currently the darling of the Parisian trendsetters, a night out a Le Paris Paris is an experience. Please expect a strict door policy at this basement club on the avenue de l'opera. 5 avenue de l Opera, www.leparisparis.com

VIP Rooms is for the media junkie who doesn't need or care about fine wine and great conversation, just revel in the floor to ceiling LED lights and flashing plasma screens. Rip out the big moolah for the overpriced cocktails. 76-78 avenue des Champs-Elysees, 8th arrondissement, www.viproom.fr