non-smoking sections
Nov 29th, 2003, 05:04 PM
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earlxx:
Your recollection must be
inaccurate, or else the chef was making a big exception for friends or colleagues. Le Florimond has been totally non-smoking for at least two years now. I had dinner there in October and there were signs everywhere pointing out that smoking was entirely forbidden anywhere in the restaurant.
Your recollection must be
inaccurate, or else the chef was making a big exception for friends or colleagues. Le Florimond has been totally non-smoking for at least two years now. I had dinner there in October and there were signs everywhere pointing out that smoking was entirely forbidden anywhere in the restaurant.
Nov 30th, 2003, 04:03 AM
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Hello StCirq
Actually you both are correct. In June Le Florimond was still smoking and officially it became a fully non-smoking on October 6th. For the last three years when dining there, and we visit this place at least three times a year, I think only twice we had smokers sitting near by. Most of the time nobody smoked. On November 3rd we had dinner there again and were surprised to see a sign on the door and a little sign on each table informing that for guests' comfort this place is non-smoking. We talked with the chef/owner about it and learned that they decided to become non-smoking restaurants as the most of people who dine there are non-smokers anyway.
P.S. StCirq thanks for your great help with our October trip to Dordogne. It was fantastic!!
Actually you both are correct. In June Le Florimond was still smoking and officially it became a fully non-smoking on October 6th. For the last three years when dining there, and we visit this place at least three times a year, I think only twice we had smokers sitting near by. Most of the time nobody smoked. On November 3rd we had dinner there again and were surprised to see a sign on the door and a little sign on each table informing that for guests' comfort this place is non-smoking. We talked with the chef/owner about it and learned that they decided to become non-smoking restaurants as the most of people who dine there are non-smokers anyway.
P.S. StCirq thanks for your great help with our October trip to Dordogne. It was fantastic!!
Nov 30th, 2003, 08:32 PM
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We just got back from a week in Paris and only ran into smokers twice. We sat in the nonsmoking sections of restaurants (and most restaurants had a nonsmoking section). One evening in a lousy restaurant (we all make mistakes!) there was a young lady opposite us who chainsmoked her way through her meal. Fortunately she came in after we did so we escaped pretty quickly. The other evening we were in nonsmoking and a young American couple came in and wanted to sit by the window. Unfortunately, the window was in nonsmoking and the young lady smoked. The waiter was no help. He brought her an ashtray and said it was fine. (We noticed he spoke English to her and French to us which we thought was odd.)
At any rate, the rest of the time we had no problem. We actually ate in a couple cafes that didn't have a nonsmoking section (that we could see) and no one was smoking anyway. That was lovely!
It is getting better.
At any rate, the rest of the time we had no problem. We actually ate in a couple cafes that didn't have a nonsmoking section (that we could see) and no one was smoking anyway. That was lovely!
It is getting better.
