The World's Loveliest Dining Room

Style Watch: Rattan Revolution
Diversions: All Talk
Food: Season to Taste
Outdoors: Comfy Camping

Forget the six-course meal and the bevy of waiters swooping around your table. To really savor a beautiful fall evening in Paris, ditch the stuffy, gilded dining room and try a champagne picnic along the Seine or a melon-and-charcuterie potluck on the Champ de Mars. Paris is full of prime public spaces with great views that make superband freelocations for private parties. For breathtaking backdrops, the banks of the Seine rank high. Parisienne Amlie Nusse and 14 of her twenty-something friends threw a bachelorette's dinnercomplete with tables, linen, candelabras and evening gownson a cobblestone quai of the Ile Saint-Louis. "We...

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