Planning a trip next summer.Our kids eat out alot and are pretty adventurous, but they love chicken. Any suggestions for a good rotisserie place . We will be staying in the 6th.Thanks.

ps: Any seafood recs. Fish is closed in August. thanks.

If you're in the mood for a picnic, head to the Latin qtr on rue mouffetard(?) where they have the open market. There you'll see a huge roaster full of chicken and a racks of potatoes. My husand and I got chicken, cheeses, bread and fresh fruit and found a lovely fountain to sit by. That was my favorite meal in our 2 visits to the city.

How old are the kids? I'd recommend ATELIER MAITRE ALBERT
1, rue Maître-Albert, Paris 5.
Telephone: 01 56 81 30 01.
All things rotisseried - it's fabulous, but maybe not with really little kids.

http://www.ateliermaitrealbert.com/e...treAlbert.html

Of course there is lots of good rotisseried chicken on Rue Mouffetard too (take out).

This may be more "casual" than you intended. Next to Saint-Severin church---Petit Pont area, near Notre Dame---there's a street lined with restaurants. Many have roasting spits in the windows: chicken, duck, meats, etc. It is on the river side of the church. These are not "named" restaurants where one lingers over a meal. But everything we ate there was delicious.

There's another street right around the corner, Rue de la Harpe. Lots of pizza and crepe cafes there.

It's harder to find good roast chicken in restaurants than it is when buying it to take away, as the small rotisseries have a much higher turnover, so the meat isn't sitting around getting dry and tough. My favourite place for take-away roast chicken and crispy potatoes is on rue des Abbesses in Montmartre -

Sorry, clicked on Post by mistake.

- the place on rue des Abbesses is a tiny little open-fronted store and their free-range (fermier) chicken is delicious.

For a sit-down meal, my vote goes to a restaurant called l'AOC on rue des Fossés St Bernard in the 5th (www.restoaoc.com) which does wonderful spit-roast free-range "pattes noires" chicken with sautéed potatoes.

I'd recommend this restaurant for more than the chicken, actually, as it has an excellent range of local French/regional dishes, and the majority of ingredients have the AOC (appellation d'origine contrôlée) label.
When we dined there in May this year, I had a great starter of sardines with crusty bread, hubby had marrow-bone (the best he'd ever had, and he's a big fan), and then I had the wonderful chicken while hubby had roast pork. We were very happy customers when we rolled out of there!

A few years ago I had a fabulous rotisseri chicken at a place called La Rotisserie du Beaujolais. I remember crossing over the Pont des artistes to get to it. Sorry I can't be more specific, but it was great! We still talk about the mashed potatoes that came with my meal in hushed tones. It bears mentioning that we were the only tourists there. There were some couples and some ladies and a few poodles lying serenely under the tables.

I second Rotisserie du Beaujolais. Roast chicken and garlic mash, yum. On the Left Bank, Quai du Tournelle (on street above Seine) as you walk away from the back side of Notre Dame.

http://www.jacquescagna.com/usardf.htm

Rotisserie d'en Face

Excellent roast chicken

Many good recommendations above, and I am the KING of rotisserie chicken, which is my favorite dish.

One that hasn't been mentioned and I think is possibly the best is Chez Clement, which is a chain, but charming and excellent. There is one just off Place St. Michel, another near Bastille, and another right on the Champs Elysees, as well as others. Their chicken is not only the best, but their frites are spectacular, and their prices are more reasonable than many of the other recommendations (other than the great takeaway ones all around the city in any marketplace). The kids would love it.

And in all honesty, I had the worst one at Rotisserie d'en Face. With their high prices I was expecting something great, but my chicken was overcooked, dry, and rather tasteless. So it was a big disappointment.

La Rotisserie du Beaujolais, 19, quai de la Tournelle 5er, Metro: Jussieu or Pont Marie, 01.43.54.17.47, the sibling of La Tour d'Argent. We haven't eaten there yet, but it is high on our list.

Nina

bkm

I totally agree with Patrick about being disappointed with the chicken at d'en Face.

Patrick .... if you are the King of roti chicken, than I am the Queen, or at least a Princess. Thanks for the heads up on Chez Clement, we will be staying a few blocks from one, and truthfully I probably wouldn't have tried it - of course who knows, sometimes you walk by a place and the next thing you know you are sitting at a table ... maybe a roti chicken calls out your name.

Several times during a trip, we buy them from the outdoor roti places and take them back to the apartment we are staying in, but last Sept.-Oct., it was almost impossible to find them, even on r. St. Antoine. We had to go to Mouffard fairly early in the day to find them, as we were staying nearby. By the time we had them for dinner, reheated, they lost the wonderful fresh taste. Believe me, they were few and far between, probaby because of the bird flu scare, and even restaurants weren't serving as much chicken as usual.

Guess what I'm making for dinner tonight??? DH says that I love roti chicken, but that I make them because I love to watch and smell them going around on the spit. A tiny taste of Paris on a cold San Francisco night.

whoops, rue Mouffetard, just the thought of roti chicken erases my brain's spellcheck.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Kids are 17 and 12 and have always travelled with us. I did see Atelier Maitre albert, but cannot seem to find an english site. i have noted the various recs and hopefully will get totry a couple. Thanks again.

Oh, I loved the dinner at Chez Clement, the one by rue St. Jacques.

Nina, Roti chicken tonight? You may hear a little tapping on your door and it won't be a mouse!

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You know we went to Atelier Maitre Albert, in July for the express purpose of my ordering the chicken. But the waiter insisted we order a special cote du boef that night. I wished I had ordered the chicken. He said I could get that any time, but of course, we didn't make it back that trip -- but this year. . . It's supposed to be the best there.

Thanks wliwl, finally an english version. We definitely will be going there if its open in August. I will contact them in the new year. Just lookin at the menu makes me hungry . Thanks again.

Fogot to add,Neopatrick thanks for your help on my other thread re Bellagio as well.