Your Favorite Restaurants in Le Marais?
Apr 22nd, 2010, 01:38 PM
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I liked lunch at two spots last trip. Cafe Hugo at Place des Vosges. Small place, 3/4 outdoor tables, good and plentiful meal, and...it's Place des Vosges. I found it after finishing a walking tour.
Bavette de veau, 1/2 bottle Vittel, glass of Chinon (Couly Dutheil) Lots of veggies, and potatoes dauphinoise
Total 17,20 euro
Second was on Ile St Louis, Brasserie de L'Ile. I had often thought about esting here, for its location mostly. So I made a special trip from where I was in Paris to get to there. Once again, eating outside. Views of Pnatheon in the disctance, watching people cross over bridge from Ile de la Cite, music...I spent too much time there...by the time I left, it was mid afternoon.
Faux Fillet au poivre avec frites allumette, very tasty
Glass of beaujolais nouveau (Duboeuf)
Café crème
½ Badoit
3 glaces – vanille, coco, praline
Total 41 euro
Bavette de veau, 1/2 bottle Vittel, glass of Chinon (Couly Dutheil) Lots of veggies, and potatoes dauphinoise
Total 17,20 euro
Second was on Ile St Louis, Brasserie de L'Ile. I had often thought about esting here, for its location mostly. So I made a special trip from where I was in Paris to get to there. Once again, eating outside. Views of Pnatheon in the disctance, watching people cross over bridge from Ile de la Cite, music...I spent too much time there...by the time I left, it was mid afternoon.
Faux Fillet au poivre avec frites allumette, very tasty
Glass of beaujolais nouveau (Duboeuf)
Café crème
½ Badoit
3 glaces – vanille, coco, praline
Total 41 euro
Apr 22nd, 2010, 02:06 PM
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Temps des Cerises looks like an East Boston Pizza parlor but is filled with French people, their dogs and babies, and lots of conviviality. Lunch only, I think, 3 course formule of classic stuff like lentil salads, credit cards accepted. Little English spoken.
Cafe des Musees. Sometimes so packed at lunch that tables have to be moved for people to enter and leave. There is a reason it is packed. Less crowded at dinner, esp early, but much busier than it used to be. Change of management in the last decade hasn't hurt the food, but they now have basement seating, and I wouldn't want to be down there.
Extreme I: Bofinger, the classic brasserie with the art nouveau glass dome. If you eat classic brasserie dishes (choucroute, steak tartare, poulet frites) from the printed carte, it is surprisingly reasonable. If you start in on the daily specials, prices soar.
Extreme II (the other end of the spectrum): L'As du Felafel. It is a trip. I can't decide if I love the felafel sandwiches here more than any other place in the world, or do I just love the atmosphere (loosely defined) Very cheap.
Cafe des Musees. Sometimes so packed at lunch that tables have to be moved for people to enter and leave. There is a reason it is packed. Less crowded at dinner, esp early, but much busier than it used to be. Change of management in the last decade hasn't hurt the food, but they now have basement seating, and I wouldn't want to be down there.
Extreme I: Bofinger, the classic brasserie with the art nouveau glass dome. If you eat classic brasserie dishes (choucroute, steak tartare, poulet frites) from the printed carte, it is surprisingly reasonable. If you start in on the daily specials, prices soar.
Extreme II (the other end of the spectrum): L'As du Felafel. It is a trip. I can't decide if I love the felafel sandwiches here more than any other place in the world, or do I just love the atmosphere (loosely defined) Very cheap.
Apr 22nd, 2010, 03:19 PM
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I have liked:
Cafe des Musees for lunch. Good food, old-timey atmo. Have stopped for lunch my last two trips. Here's a pic from David Lebovitz's blog:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archive...des_muses.html
Le Gaigne for dinner. Quiet, intimate, less traditional good cooking.
http://www.restaurantlegaigne.fr/
Have enjoyed a casual, relaxing salad and wine at Cafe Hugo a couple times. Food is nothing to die for but such a nice place to sit and enjoy.
And for chocolate, coffee, sweets, Jacques Genin.
La Chocolaterie Jacques Genin
133 Rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris, France
01 45 77 29 01
Cafe des Musees for lunch. Good food, old-timey atmo. Have stopped for lunch my last two trips. Here's a pic from David Lebovitz's blog:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archive...des_muses.html
Le Gaigne for dinner. Quiet, intimate, less traditional good cooking.
http://www.restaurantlegaigne.fr/
Have enjoyed a casual, relaxing salad and wine at Cafe Hugo a couple times. Food is nothing to die for but such a nice place to sit and enjoy.
And for chocolate, coffee, sweets, Jacques Genin.
La Chocolaterie Jacques Genin
133 Rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris, France
01 45 77 29 01
Apr 23rd, 2010, 08:01 AM
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there were so many I enjoyed for different reasons.La Guirlande de Julie. I spent a Valentine's Day dining at this charming restaurant,
Le Dome du Marais, wonderful food at this place with a stained glass dome,
I enjoy both Bofinger and across the street Le Petit
Bofinger.
For open faced sandwiches and a carafe of wine, I loved La Tartine where there the all French diners who seem to know eachother.
Le Dome du Marais, wonderful food at this place with a stained glass dome,
I enjoy both Bofinger and across the street Le Petit
Bofinger.
For open faced sandwiches and a carafe of wine, I loved La Tartine where there the all French diners who seem to know eachother.
Apr 23rd, 2010, 08:06 AM
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We had two excellent means in the Marais in December 2008:
<b>Breizh Café</b>
109 rue Vieille du Temple
Tel: 01 42 72 13 77
Métro: Filles du Calvaire
Specializing in crepes, we had a delicious and relatively inexpensive lunch here. Reservations recommended -- the place was packed!
<b>Le Pamphlet</b>
38, rue Debelleyme
Tel: 01 42 72 39 24
Métro: Saint-Sébastien-Froissart
A Fodor's favorite and praised by Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema (Washington Post Travel, October 26, 2008) and by Alexander Lobrano ("Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants"), we had one of our best meals in Paris here.
<b>Breizh Café</b>
109 rue Vieille du Temple
Tel: 01 42 72 13 77
Métro: Filles du Calvaire
Specializing in crepes, we had a delicious and relatively inexpensive lunch here. Reservations recommended -- the place was packed!
<b>Le Pamphlet</b>
38, rue Debelleyme
Tel: 01 42 72 39 24
Métro: Saint-Sébastien-Froissart
A Fodor's favorite and praised by Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema (Washington Post Travel, October 26, 2008) and by Alexander Lobrano ("Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants"), we had one of our best meals in Paris here.
Apr 23rd, 2010, 09:39 AM
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I've read about Breizh Café: The crepes made with handmade organic butter and organic flour from Normandy.I'm interested in experiencing the creations of any of the French chefs who are using ingredients from small organic farms with pastured animals.
I'm cutting and pasting into my files and will try all of your recommendations.
I'm cutting and pasting into my files and will try all of your recommendations.
Apr 27th, 2010, 02:44 PM
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Love Le Pamphlet is very good and at reasonable prices. Chez Janou is a fun casual bistrot. Here's an excerpt from out TR for Chez janou
"Dinner on Friday, the 15th. Chez Janou [2, rue Roger Verlomme, in the Marais]. After our previous night's experiment in dining, we were in the mood for hearty, traditional food from the south of France - and Chez Janou fit the bill. It was a densely-packed bistrot with floor to ceiling posters from 40s and and 50s French films. The kind of place where they have to pull the table out to seat you and you have to drape your winter coats on your chair because there's no place to hang them. (I regard this as a positive attribute.) For starters we had salads with 1) ham, garlic toast and cheese and 2) shrimp, avocado and grapefruit. Both great. Only one plats was ordered, farcis provencal (eggplant with lamb). We shared a bottle of gigondas (a steal at 28 euros) which may have had a deleterious effect on my note-taking. For dessert we had blue cheese w/ salad ("petits rocamadour") and blanc mange, and shared a glass of muscat. Everything was heavenly. We'd eaten fairly early; by the time we left the entry way to the restaurant was so crowded we could barely squeeze through. Dinner was a very reasonable 79.5 euros. I love this crowded, noisy place. Reservations needed."
Used to love L'As du Falafel and always stopped by for a lunch, but this past trip, not so good.
"Dinner on Friday, the 15th. Chez Janou [2, rue Roger Verlomme, in the Marais]. After our previous night's experiment in dining, we were in the mood for hearty, traditional food from the south of France - and Chez Janou fit the bill. It was a densely-packed bistrot with floor to ceiling posters from 40s and and 50s French films. The kind of place where they have to pull the table out to seat you and you have to drape your winter coats on your chair because there's no place to hang them. (I regard this as a positive attribute.) For starters we had salads with 1) ham, garlic toast and cheese and 2) shrimp, avocado and grapefruit. Both great. Only one plats was ordered, farcis provencal (eggplant with lamb). We shared a bottle of gigondas (a steal at 28 euros) which may have had a deleterious effect on my note-taking. For dessert we had blue cheese w/ salad ("petits rocamadour") and blanc mange, and shared a glass of muscat. Everything was heavenly. We'd eaten fairly early; by the time we left the entry way to the restaurant was so crowded we could barely squeeze through. Dinner was a very reasonable 79.5 euros. I love this crowded, noisy place. Reservations needed."
Used to love L'As du Falafel and always stopped by for a lunch, but this past trip, not so good.
Apr 27th, 2010, 02:50 PM
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<<I'm interested in experiencing the creations of any of the French chefs who are using ingredients from small organic farms with pastured animals.>>
Alain Passard, of Arpège, grows all his vegetables on land he owns outside of Paris (SW of the city, I think).But honestly, you won't find the same zeal for organic foods among French chefs as you would, for example, among San Francisco chefs. There are a number of bio markets right in Paris, like Batignolles, but most chefs aren't paying the high prices there. And good-quality, locally grown food is such a given throughout France, there's no need to make it a particular passion, except among a handful.
Alain Passard, of Arpège, grows all his vegetables on land he owns outside of Paris (SW of the city, I think).But honestly, you won't find the same zeal for organic foods among French chefs as you would, for example, among San Francisco chefs. There are a number of bio markets right in Paris, like Batignolles, but most chefs aren't paying the high prices there. And good-quality, locally grown food is such a given throughout France, there's no need to make it a particular passion, except among a handful.
Apr 27th, 2010, 02:53 PM
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Thanks, yestravel!! The restaurant is just up the street from an apartment we have in October. When we were in Paris last November we walked up to see where the next apartment was and passed Chez Janou.....it looked very welcoming.
Apr 27th, 2010, 04:32 PM
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StC: I figured as much. Thanks for the feedback.
Isn't there a restaurant on a small organic farm outside of Arles? Is that over-rated as well?
The most beautiful radishes I've ever seen are in the markets of France.
Isn't there a restaurant on a small organic farm outside of Arles? Is that over-rated as well?
The most beautiful radishes I've ever seen are in the markets of France.
