Listen up fashionistas and francophiles, Emily in Paris is officially back, with the first half of season four dropping on Netflix today. This series, we pick up just a few days after Gabrielle and Camille’s almost-wedding. Alfie is fuming, Gabrielle is sulking and Camille is nowhere to be found. It’s a hot mess, and Emily is left to pick up the pieces.
Season four has everything you’d expect from the show helmed by Sex and the City creator Darren Star: OTT outfits, hot chefs and love triangles. And as usual, there are tonnes of chic, fabulous and unique locations from around Paris and France in the show – many of which you can visit to live out your Parisian fantasy, minus all the ménages à trois.
‘In the first season we shared the wide-eyed niaveté to the city that Emily had,’ series director and executive producer Andy Fleming tells Time Out. ‘As an American, I don't see the graffiti or the garbage – I see cute little streets and the iconic Eiffel Tower View. But as we’ve gone on, we’ve really tried to find secret Paris. If we go to a location and the French crew are like: “I didn't know about this place”, then I know that we've done it.’
Where does Emily visit in Emily in Paris season 4?
Claude Monet’s house in Giverny
‘Giverny is a sacred place. It's not too far from Paris, and it's a lovely day trip, or you can stay over there. It is actually like walking into a Monet painting. Inside the house is beautiful because of the colours. The kitchen is yellow, and then the dining room is periwinkle blue. We did a shot in both of those rooms.
‘You need to see the arbour that faces his house that has flower beds either side. From there you can walk around the pond and look at the iconic half-moon bridge (the same bridge from the ‘Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies’ painting).’
Bouillon Chartier
‘Paris is filled with these things called bouillons, which were originally places you could go to get soup. They are usually really beautiful rooms, but the idea is that you can have a full meal and it’s not terribly expensive. The tradition persists, and chefs really do hang out there.’
Club Boxing Temple Noble Art
‘We shot in a really beautiful boxing gym in episode one. Leave it to Paris that a boxing gym would have beautiful design, and be very photogenic and very chic. It had this really cool ceiling and it wasn’t like any gym I’d ever seen. It was very French. They love good design.’
Le Bar Josephine at the Hotel Lutetia
‘The bar inside the Hotel Lutetia is the best place to get [Emily’s favourite cocktail], a Kir Royale. Lutetia is without a doubt the best hotel in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area. It’s a very cosy place, it’s very old and was restored extensively in the past decade. The bar is beautiful with these high ceilings, where they found these frescoes that had been hidden behind stucco, which they restored. It's a proper bar where you can get a proper cocktail.’
La Grande Épicerie de Paris
‘La Grande Épicerie is essentially the French Harrods, but it’s not as mobbed as the London store. It has fresh produce, all kinds of wine, an insane cheese department and bakery, and all these little kiosks where you can have sandwiches, or an omelette or caviar. It’s ridiculous and over the top, they have everything, including 27 kinds of truffles.’
Hotel Plaza Athénée
‘La Plaza Athénée is kind of like our home, we’ve shot there every season. I feel like you could do an Emily in Paris tour just by visiting this place. You can sit in the lobby and have the best club sandwich of your entire life. It doesn’t break the bank, and it’s a great place for people watching.’
Galerie-Musée Baccarat
‘The baccarat museum where we shot the masked ball is one of the great secrets in Paris. It’s a baccarat store but also a museum, there’s a ballroom, it has a little café. It’s an old mansion built by a very wealthy French family in the 1800s and it’s one of the most beautiful places in Paris. It’s right in the heart of the city, but it’s lovely and quiet. It’s like a little respite in the middle of the bustling city.’
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