Best of HiP Paris 2025 – Our Most Read Articles of the Year

The articles you loved most this year

As 2025 winds down, we took a look at your favorite articles this year.

Once again, you’ve shown us what you crave to know most about Paris: to understand the city beyond clichés. To navigate the practical realities of the city, including food, neighborhoods, interiors, and — increasingly — property.

Here are some of the most popular HiP Paris articles of 2025, chosen by you.

Making France Feel Like Home

Seven Ways to Bring France Into Your Home
Whether you live in the City of Light, visit often, or fantasize about it from afar, there’s a deep deep desire to evoke it in your surroundings. We will be bringing you more articles that look at Frenchness as a way of life, not a souvenir. Stay tuned for more about interiors and design in the year to come.

Where to Eat — and How to Eat — in Paris

Where to Eat in St-Germain, According to a Food Tour Guide
It’s All About the Croissants: Where to Find the Best Croissants in Paris

Food guides were popular as ever. St-Germain remains one of the most searched (and misunderstood) areas of Paris, and your enthusiasm for practical, vetted restaurant recommendations there was clear. And who doesn’t love a buttery croissant? Every year we report on the winners of the Meilleur Croissant au Beurre competition in Paris. Have your visits lived up to the winner’s accolades? 

Parisian Habits, Neighborhoods & Everyday Life

Five Parisian Habits I Adopted After Living in Paris
A Local’s Guide to the 3rd Arrondissement Guide
French Lessons: An American Family Goes to School in Paris

There is an insatiable thirst to know what life is really like living in the City of Light. Beloved HIP Paris writer Yvonne Hazleton captures that beautifully, with her trademark humor and lightness in “Five Parisian Habits I Adopted After Living in Paris”. The Zoe Adam’s 3rd arrondissement guide lets us know a local’s view of an ever popular Paris quartier. And an insightful piece on navigating schools as an American family in Paris resonated with those considering longer stays, moves, or raising children here.

Fractional Apartments in Paris

Left Bank Luxury: 3 Bdr St-Germain Fractional Apartment for Sale

Own a Piece of Paris: A Fractional Apartment in the Central Marais

Over the last year, reader’s have shown that interest in buying Paris property is not waning. In particular, interest in more flexible ownership models like fractional ownership apartments is growing.

Two of our most-visited pages this year explored fractional ownership in Paris, reflecting a shift in how many of you are thinking about owning in the city: not necessarily full relocation, but still a meaningful, recurring presence. Both the three bedroom St Germain fractional and the two bedroom Marais fractional for sale we recently brought to you have proven to be wildly popular amongst readers. For many, fractional ownership has emerged as a way to anchor life in Paris without the complexity or costs surrounding full-time ownership. We hope to increase our offering of fractional apartments for you in the year to come.

We’ll be sharing more on this topic in the year ahead!