Is it really possible that there is not one reservation time available for lunch or dinner the whole week of December 10th?

We dine at the Train Bleu quite often. Twice this year. There was some major construction going on when we were there both times this year - June & Oct 1. Perhaps they had to close the restaurant to accommodate the construction. Call or e-mail them.

Stu Dudley

Thanks for the suggestion Stu.
You could be right. We will call tomorrow.
We do love it there.

Tried calling but couldn’t get through.

Nobody answered, or did you get some message??? The reservation system on their web site says that nothing is available for all of December & Jan 1.

Try Bofinger. Ask for a table in the main dining room under the dome.

Stu Dudley

Thanks again Stu….I did get a message in French but couldn’t understand it. Glad you told me what it says.
We do like Bofinger and haven’t been there in a while so that’s a good idea. Any more favorites of yours?
We are going to Le Grand Colbert with a night ride in a 1938 Citroen after dinner. That’s always fun

Our favorite “first night comfort food after flying” place is always
La Jacobine . Unfortunately we arrive on a Monday and they are closed on Monday.

We had a really lousy meal at le Grand Colbert about 15 years ago.

Our best meal when we were in Paris before Christmas in 2021, was at Tomy & Co.

https://tomygousset.com/tomy-and-co/

Stu Dudley

Sorry to hear that Colbert wasn’t good for you.
We we’re there in 2018 & 2019 and had good food.

I’ll check out Tony & Co.

This past September, we had a surprisingly good meal at a "famous/touristy" place where I expected the food to be "not that great". Fouquets on the Champs Elysees. We stayed in that area for 2 nights before departing on a 4 week trip to the Auvergne & Lot regions.
https://www.hotelsbarriere.com/en/co...-and-bars.html

Several years ago, we decided to start dining at several old Parisian brasseries. We purchased the book "The Brassieries of Paris", and we've dined at most of them in the book. All had fabulous decor, and the meals were "variable".


Stu Dudley

Love the look of Fouquets on the Champs.
We are in an apt. off of St. Germain this time but plan on getting around by Uber and cab during the rainy winter.

Always enjoy your TRs and the info you provide.

Random travel factoids: ran into Le Train Bleu just before catching our train for a tour of Provence that precluded a couple days in Paris. There was just enough time for the famous Train Bleu martini. I had to see the inside of this iconic stunningly appointed restaurant, if only for a quick look-see. As I recall the Ladies room was impressive in itself. Wish I’d had time for a meal that day.

A couple of years later on a Tauck River cruise that began two days earlier in Paris our group of 100 first night’s dinner was at Fouquet upstairs in their private rooms. Menu of hors d’ouvres, champagne aperitif followed by salad, boeuf bourguignon and wines with dessert of miniature mille feuille. We would never have been able to put together an elaborate meal such as that if we had been on our own. It was all so delicious and the rooms just beautiful.

On that same trip the following night our Tauck group was on its own for dinner and I had made a reservation at La Coupole, having seen Something's Gotta Give on the ferry crossing between Picton and Wellington during a trip to New Zealand. I wanted to try the roast chicken that Diane Keaton went on about for myself. Coincidentally, I was seated at the rear of the restaurant between two couples who were also on the Tauck trip. We bonded that night and stuck together for the remainder of our cruise. Whoda thunk? BTW, my roast chicken was the tastiest I've ever had, plus the gravy on it and over the French fries the best.

""plus the gravy on it and over the French fries the best.""

In France, it's "sauce" - not "gravy".

Stu Dudley

StuDudly The instant I clicked on Post Reply I knew I’d get feedback on the use of the word “gravy”. Of course I should have said “sauce” but it really was a most gravy-like sauce so…. And, I thought for sure I’d hear from Kerouac first on this snafu.😁

I rarely discuss food porn.

We are just back from Paris and had a lovely dinner at the newly re-opened Tour d'Argent....take a look.....

I sent an email to Le Train Bleu.
Dinner was fully booked for our week but I was able to get lunch reservation.

Traviata….we will definitely check out Tour d’Argent

^^^On that same trip the following night our Tauck group was on its own for dinner and I had made a reservation at La Coupole, having seen Something's Gotta Give on the ferry crossing between Picton and Wellington during a trip to New Zealand. ^^^

Surely a typo - Le Grand Colbert.

nyse - definitely a typo. Thank you for the correction. Yes, I meant Le Grand Colbert, La Coupole being another favorite place.🙄

I wonder how long such an opinion can be considered valid, when the chef and a lot of the kitchen staff and other personnel are now retired or have gone on to other jobs at other places.

If there any point in saying something like that? When people talk about even "last year" I always assume that things may have changed since then.