Le Phineas

The owners of our rental, Alain and Joelle, were very funky. They used to own a restaraunt in Montparnasse named "Le Phineas" named after the character in the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Their restaurant had a comic book theme and attracted R Crumb-type comic book artists. Joelle's speciality was replicating comic book covers and album covers on cakes. And Alain's specialty? He was know for the lemon tarts that he used to sell at concerts. He sold over a thousand at a Bowie concert once. This is a photo of a cartoon drawing of Alain with his tarts. You can read a little bit about there restaraunt a little ways down this on-line article.

Now they have decided to slow down, so they closed their restaurant and focus on renting their country home during the summer, while they live in a tepee a few hundred yards from their house. They still have their apartment in Paris and they live there in the winter. And Joelle still makes cakes on order.