The Story Of…. Cafe/Brasserie Le Select in Paris

Exclusive interview with Frederic Plegat
By Karen Beishuizen
Photos courtesy of Cafe/Brasserie Le Select

Le Select Cafe/Brasserie was founded in 1923 in Paris. Chic and beautiful, in the style of the 1920s with its stucco, moldings, wooden tables and benches. A literary and artistic place where the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg were regulars and called it home away from home. Try out Scarlet Johansson’s favorite...