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The list in your head, let’s make it properly.
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Create your own city guide in less than 30 minutes.

Talk through the places you already recommend. Half an hour later, you have a guide worth sending.

Yours, not exhaustive
A weekend, walks, food, late nights, shopping. Whatever you actually know.
Useful when someone gets there
Where it is, what it costs, and whether to book, walk in, wait, or expect a line.
Your taste, not an algorithm
Every place is one you would send a friend to.
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As I Know ItParis by Tomáš Zeman
Paris

by Tomáš Zeman

The places, walks and meals I actually recommend to friends before they visit.

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The quay below the Conciergerie
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How it’s made

You talk.
Your guide takes shape.

No forms. No dashboard. Just talk or type. The app asks one thing at a time and builds the guide as you go.

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Talk
Text or voice, the way you’d answer a friend.
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Watch it take shape
Your places and advice become a guide as you go.
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Make it yours
Add photos and video. Move things. Tell it what to change.
Where would you send a friend first?
Early June, on the canal.
How do they get a table?
No reservations, just a waitlist. Show up in person when they open and they’ll try to find you a time later that night. Be polite and patient.
Early June
Eat

No reservations, just a waitlist. Show up in person when they open and they’ll try to find you a time later that night. Be polite and patient.

19 Rue Jean Poulmarch, 75010 Paris ↗︎
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Added to Eat. Where do you send people next?
Breizh Café. Proper Breton galettes and crêpes. Fill up before the hill.
Breizh Café
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Proper Breton galettes and crêpes. Fill up before the hill.

93 Rue des Martyrs, 75018 Paris ↗︎
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Paris

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The places, walks and meals I actually recommend to friends before they visit.
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Eat

Paris has thousands of restaurants. These aren’t all of the good ones. They’re the ones I find myself recommending.
Early June
No reservations, just a waitlist. Show up in person when they open and they’ll try to find you a time later that night. Be polite and patient.
Breizh Café
Proper Breton galettes and crêpes. Fill up before the hill.

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As I Know ItParis by Tomáš Zeman
Paris

by Tomáš Zeman

The places, walks and meals I actually recommend to friends before they visit.

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The quay below the Conciergerie
Eat

Places worth planning a day around

Paris has thousands of restaurants. These aren’t all of the good ones. They’re the ones I find myself recommending.

Breakfast & brunch

Breakfast is usually a small affair here. Traditionally it’s an espresso, a croissant, and a cigarette if you smoke. If you want more than that:

Breizh CaféBreizh Café

Montmartre · 18e

€€

Proper Breton galettes and crêpes. Fill up before the hill.

93 R. des Martyrs, 75018 Paris, France

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Dinner

Have one great classic French dinner, and one that tells you where Paris is now.

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Canal Saint-Martin · 10e

€€

No reservations, just a waitlist. Show up in person when they open and they’ll try to find you a time later that night. Be polite and patient.

19 Rue Jean Poulmarch, 75010 Paris, France

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You say it once. We keep what a friend would tell you and a listing usually doesn’t.

What you say, out loud
What appears in the guide
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We find the place
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Bouillon Chartier. The old one, on Faubourg Montmartre.
7 rue du Faubourg Montmartre, 75009 Paris
You say the name. We add the address, the neighborhood and the link.
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We add the useful details
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It’s cheap, you can’t book, you just show up.
Grands Boulevards · 9e€Walk in
Price, timing, and whether you can just show up.
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We keep your point of view
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a vast belle époque dining room, waiters in waistcoats, and the bill written on the paper tablecloth. go at 6pm, before the line forms
“A vast belle époque dining room, waiters in waistcoats, and the bill written on the paper tablecloth. Go at 6pm, before the line forms.”
We add a capital and a period, and nothing else. We don’t turn your words into travel copy.

A listing tells you where somewhere is. A friend tells you whether to go.

Sharing

One guide. Share it however you like.

Put your guide in a story. Send one place to a friend. Leave it for guests.

The Paris guide's Instagram Story: Paris, by Tomáš Zeman, over the Conciergerie
On Instagram
A story made from your own photograph and your own words.
For a friend
One place, in WhatsApp. Nobody needs the whole guide to answer one question.
The Paris guide's guest card: the Conciergerie, Paris by Tomáš Zeman, and a code to scan
For guests
A printed card on the table. They scan it and read, with nothing to install.
Who it’s for

The person everyone texts before they travel.

You’re always being asked
You keep the list in your head. Now you can send a link.
You know somewhere well
Not everywhere. Maybe four streets you know cold. Eleven places you love beat four hundred you don’t.
You host people
Friends, houseguests, paying guests. Give them the city you’d give someone you care about.
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A thoughtful editor, in your pocket.

Talk while you’re walking home. Send a photo from this morning. Remember somewhere you forgot to mention.

You make it on your phone. Everyone else reads it on the web.

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Location

Paris

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Paris

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The places, walks and meals I actually recommend to friends before they visit.

Eat

Paris has thousands of restaurants. These aren’t all of the good ones. They’re the ones I find myself recommending.
Bouillon Chartier
A vast belle époque dining room, waiters in waistcoats, and the bill written on the paper tablecloth. Go at 6pm, before the line forms and while the room is still calm enough to look at.
Early June
Currently one of my favorite tables in the city. Great food, natural wine, good service.

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About As I Know It

This started as a Google Doc.

Friends kept asking us where to eat in Paris, what was actually worth booking, and the small practical things you only learn by living somewhere. So we wrote them down and sent the document around.

Then their friends started forwarding it.

That is the whole idea. The best recommendations already travel this way, from someone who knows a city to someone about to visit it, and they usually arrive as a text message or a document nobody can find again a year later.

So we make them into something worth keeping. Every guide here is one person’s taste. Nothing is ranked, nothing is averaged out of a thousand reviews, and every place in it was chosen by the person whose name is on it. When everything else is machine-made, somebody’s actual taste is the rare thing.

What it costs
Free to read. $49 a year to publish.
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