Panelists Lindsey Tramuta, Carina Soto Velasquez, and Nora Bouazzouni explore the evolution of Paris dining—from emerging cuisines to the challenges women face in the industry and the voices shaping the city’s culinary future.
About the speakers:
Lindsey Tramuta has been based in Paris since 2006. She is a bilingual French-English culture and travel journalist, bestselling author, podcaster, and editorial consultant. Since 2012, her work has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Fortune Magazine, Afar Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Eater, Bloomberg, Elle, and Vogue, among other international publications.
Carina Soto Velasquez grew up in Medellín, Colombia, and moved to Paris in 2004 to study sociology, supporting herself through restaurant work and discovering a passion for hospitality. She began bartending in 2007, embracing the craft cocktail movement, and her love of agave spirits inspired Candelaria, a taqueria-bar she co-founded in 2011 with Quixotic Projects, followed by Le Mary Celeste in 2013. From 2011 to 2020, Quixotic Projects opened several venues, including Glass, Hero, and Les Grands Verres, and in September 2025 opened À La Renaissance, a Parisian café-bistrot. Carina now consults globally on food and beverage, and has been named among Drinks International’s Bar World 100 Most Influential four times.
Nora Bouazzouni is a French freelance journalist, author and translator. She works for various outlets on food, gender, TV shows and pop culture. She has published four books: Violences en cuisine, une omerta à la française (Stock, 2025), Mangez les riches, la lutte des classes passe par l’assiette (2023), Steaksisme, en finir avec le mythe de la végé et du viandard (2021) and Faiminisme, quand le sexisme passe à table (2017).
