Located between the Louvre museum and the stylish Saint Germain des Prés district, the Pont des Arts is a lovely pedestrian wooden bridge across the Seine river... and the trendiest place for Parisian picnics!

Every night, people start gathering on the bridge around 8 p.m. to have picnics with friends or romantic dinners, enjoying the beautiful view on the Eiffel Tower, the Orsay Museum, the Louvre, the Samaritaine and the Ile de la Cité. Everybody brings fresh gourmet dishes, such as Italian ham, Greek tzatziki, Norwegian smoked fish, and of course French foie gras, cheese, bread and wine they bought on traditional open-air markets or in neighborhood specialty food shops.

Why not get inspired by this Parisian tradition and invite your friends to a French-style picnic? It's easy to make your picnic an elegant outdoor feast with a touch of French flair!

The origin of the picnic concept is French! Actually, the first usage of the word "picnic" was found in a 16th century French text. It referred to a group of people who went dining in a restaurant and brought their own wine!		Select a wide range of fresh crusty breads: French baguette, farmhouse bread, wholewheat bread, gingerbread...
		Choose succulent gourmet dishes to lay or spread on bread such as French tapenade made of Provençal olives, truffled pâté with onion jam, fine aubergine caviar, foie gras with sweet wine jelly and fig jam, fresh goat cheese with spicy honey, pickled tomatoes with olive oil and Provençal herbs, Brie and Camembert cheese, salted ham from the Alps, smoked duck magret with roquette salad and truffle oil, Basque cheese with black cherry jam...
		And don't forget to bring a delicious sweet white wine to serve with foie gras and deserts, and a flavorful Burgundy red wine for the rest of the meal!