Why eat alone if you can share the pleasure with a fellow gastronome, especially a culinary journey such as Astrance. Paris in June would be lovely, eating at Astrance twice in one season would be lovelier still. But I think June is going to corsets and curry in Leicester, strictly academic studies of course. Off to Paris tomorrow... looking forward to visiting Pierre Herme, before dinner at Zenzan, more macroons at Laduree, then Astrance, then Reglade, then Epi Dupin, then phew i will never fit into anything remotely fashionable so off to a friend's birthday party in Dordogne for the weekend. His family seem to have a big thing about ducks- great pate last time- so perhaps this is not such a good idea for gastro-rehab.