No city gives its visitors more pleasure than Paris, and no visitor has responded more enthusiastically than Michael Bond, the creator of Paddington Bear, who for over a decade now has made it his home. Bond’s greatest pleasures, he happily admits, are gastronomic ones, and the notes he started to keep on Parisian eating-places – for the benefit of guests at his Montrmartre apartment – soon turned into a major survey as he warmed to his research.