Paris birthday dinner for 10yo
May 5th, 2015, 03:29 PM
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Paris birthday dinner for 10yo
My daughter will be celebrating her 10th birthday while we are in Paris this summer. Any suggestions for a special dinner (or even a nice lunch)? Some place nice but not super fancy - no 3 hour meals! 58-75e per person. I looked in to 58 Tour Eiffel but no reservations available. We're staying in the 7th Arrondissement. Some place not too far would be great, but not necessary. Thanks for any suggestions.
May 5th, 2015, 03:39 PM
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http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restauran...de_France.html
We took our GD here last June and she's talked about it ever since.
Lunch would be less expensive than dinner.
It looks ultra fancy but it is in a train station so you will see people dressed fancy & in casual dress. The room looks like it belongs in Versailles and is quite impressive.
We took our GD here last June and she's talked about it ever since.
Lunch would be less expensive than dinner.
It looks ultra fancy but it is in a train station so you will see people dressed fancy & in casual dress. The room looks like it belongs in Versailles and is quite impressive.
May 5th, 2015, 04:08 PM
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Take her to Le Petit Palais for lunch (http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/v...afe-restaurant).
She might also enjoy lunch at Fish La Boissonnerie, 69 rue de Seine in the 6th.
There is also Benoit, 20 rue Saint-Martin in the 4th. The classic luxury bistro (www.benoit-paris.com/en).
She might also enjoy lunch at Fish La Boissonnerie, 69 rue de Seine in the 6th.
There is also Benoit, 20 rue Saint-Martin in the 4th. The classic luxury bistro (www.benoit-paris.com/en).
May 5th, 2015, 09:37 PM
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At that age, My kid liked Bofinger as a special dinner because it is so pretty inside, although Petit Bofinger would do just as well ... Better for families but not so special.
Also consider .. Very cheap but great tastes ... And crowded Creperie Josselin. My son could have gone there for dinner every day, even though he had extremely adventurous taste in food and could suck up moules et frites anytime too!
Also consider .. Very cheap but great tastes ... And crowded Creperie Josselin. My son could have gone there for dinner every day, even though he had extremely adventurous taste in food and could suck up moules et frites anytime too!
May 6th, 2015, 09:28 AM
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I think Train Bleu is a good idea or any beautiful old brasserie (like Bofinger).
BUt closer to the Eiffel Tower idea, you can get a very reasonable lunch at Ciel de Paris at the top of Montparnasse tower (39 euro prix fixe). Maybe too cheap for you.
http://www.cieldeparis.com/fr/carte-...-gourmand.html
Not old or beuautiful in that way, but the views are fantastic.
YOur price is actually quite generous for lunch, heck, you can go to La Tour d'Argent for only 85 euro.
//www.latourdargent.com/restaurant/menus/menu-dejeuner
BUt closer to the Eiffel Tower idea, you can get a very reasonable lunch at Ciel de Paris at the top of Montparnasse tower (39 euro prix fixe). Maybe too cheap for you.
http://www.cieldeparis.com/fr/carte-...-gourmand.html
Not old or beuautiful in that way, but the views are fantastic.
YOur price is actually quite generous for lunch, heck, you can go to La Tour d'Argent for only 85 euro.
//www.latourdargent.com/restaurant/menus/menu-dejeuner
May 6th, 2015, 11:49 AM
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Train Bleu
http://www.le-train-bleu.com/uk/index.php
yikes, their lunch menu is as or more expensive as La Tour d'Argent, I had no idea! They do have one prix fixe lunch at 62 euro though (which I don't actually find that appetizing). Well, they have a child's portion for pretty cheap
http://www.le-train-bleu.com/maj/pdf...MENU_EN_ES.pdf
http://www.le-train-bleu.com/uk/index.php
yikes, their lunch menu is as or more expensive as La Tour d'Argent, I had no idea! They do have one prix fixe lunch at 62 euro though (which I don't actually find that appetizing). Well, they have a child's portion for pretty cheap
http://www.le-train-bleu.com/maj/pdf...MENU_EN_ES.pdf
May 6th, 2015, 01:18 PM
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When we went to Le Train Bleu in June 2014 with our GD it was a very hot evening and warm in the restaurant. Because of that we didn't order starters, just main courses. I looked up the bill & it was $255 US dollars. We had
2 glasses of wine
2 lemonades
3 main courses(1 fish,1 steak, 1 liver)
2 desserts
2 coffees
This was when the Euro to dollar exchange was very high. At present with the good exchange rate it would cost a lot less.
For 3 people we didn't think this was way out of line. Our GD does order off the regular menu, not the children's.
Just thought I'd give you an idea of cost.
2 glasses of wine
2 lemonades
3 main courses(1 fish,1 steak, 1 liver)
2 desserts
2 coffees
This was when the Euro to dollar exchange was very high. At present with the good exchange rate it would cost a lot less.
For 3 people we didn't think this was way out of line. Our GD does order off the regular menu, not the children's.
Just thought I'd give you an idea of cost.
May 6th, 2015, 03:18 PM
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I think the average 10 year old kid would yes like much better to go to Euro disney than have lunch or dinner in some fancy expensive restaurant.
Does not Paris have the type of places like Chucky Cheese - kidcentric places - well maybe she's a tad old for that but why spend the fortune on a place that will make the folks feel good but leave the child blase - he/she would probably love a trois boules ice cream cone as much as Le Train Bleu!
Think of the child first - Paris must have some neat places for kids' birthdays.
More expensive and fancy may not mean as much to a kid that age as having fun someplace - even FLUNCH IMO kids would enjoy more than a fancy formal restaurant - can you sing Happy Birthday loud in Blue Train? Maybe...
I second Edward2005's idea of Disney Paris. Lots of kid-centric places there to eat.
Does not Paris have the type of places like Chucky Cheese - kidcentric places - well maybe she's a tad old for that but why spend the fortune on a place that will make the folks feel good but leave the child blase - he/she would probably love a trois boules ice cream cone as much as Le Train Bleu!
Think of the child first - Paris must have some neat places for kids' birthdays.
More expensive and fancy may not mean as much to a kid that age as having fun someplace - even FLUNCH IMO kids would enjoy more than a fancy formal restaurant - can you sing Happy Birthday loud in Blue Train? Maybe...
I second Edward2005's idea of Disney Paris. Lots of kid-centric places there to eat.
May 6th, 2015, 03:51 PM
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My GD's happen to love fancy places. They'd rather have seafood than a hamburger---they can have that at home. Her order in Paris at an ouside cafe was frog legs not chicken nuggets.
London lunch---shrimp and edamame.
Chucky Cheese?---not going to happen in any city.
I guess it's pizza during a sleepover but when traveling it's crab legs, steak, duck, etc.
Different strokes for different folks.
Sitting in a kids movie like "Night at the Museum" and having her shout out excitedly "I stood right there" during a scene at the Tower of London is worth all the cost of taking her there.
London lunch---shrimp and edamame.
Chucky Cheese?---not going to happen in any city.
I guess it's pizza during a sleepover but when traveling it's crab legs, steak, duck, etc.
Different strokes for different folks.
Sitting in a kids movie like "Night at the Museum" and having her shout out excitedly "I stood right there" during a scene at the Tower of London is worth all the cost of taking her there.
May 6th, 2015, 05:28 PM
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Maybe not think it as much about the kid's b'day--but the entire fine dinner somewhere in Paris as a memory. Not Disney and not chucky cheese.
I'd do Le Train Bleu for the FAMILY dinner of the trip!!
I'd do Le Train Bleu for the FAMILY dinner of the trip!!
May 6th, 2015, 05:38 PM
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Ask the child - Euro or Paris Disney all told at a fraction of the price os say Blue Train and the child if not pressured will sahy "Yeh Euro Dinsey for sure: - "awesome" but folks don't usually think of what a child may prefer
a 1,000 euro dinner at Train Blue or a birthday visit to Disney Paris with special birthday meal there - well most kids would saY: Yeh Dinseyland Paris - IME with kids that age!
Going to Train Blue is IMO mainly to salve the parents - for a lot less the kid may love Disney Paris - well my kid that age would of hands down
Please take this in good nature and from what I think would be a kid-centric approach - gthe fanciest restaurants in Paris mya please the parents but the kid could care less. Save a lot of money and even go to on the birthday a palce like Aqua Boulevard - a huge indoor water-park swimming complex a favorite of French faimilies - my kid of that age loved it as much as any thing I dragged him to in Paris - make that a birthday treat:
http://www.aquaboulevard.fr/aquaboul...html#/homePage
https://www.google.com/search?q=aqua...=1600&bih=1075
If not on birthday some place for kids that many French/Parisian families like to do.
a 1,000 euro dinner at Train Blue or a birthday visit to Disney Paris with special birthday meal there - well most kids would saY: Yeh Dinseyland Paris - IME with kids that age!
Going to Train Blue is IMO mainly to salve the parents - for a lot less the kid may love Disney Paris - well my kid that age would of hands down
Please take this in good nature and from what I think would be a kid-centric approach - gthe fanciest restaurants in Paris mya please the parents but the kid could care less. Save a lot of money and even go to on the birthday a palce like Aqua Boulevard - a huge indoor water-park swimming complex a favorite of French faimilies - my kid of that age loved it as much as any thing I dragged him to in Paris - make that a birthday treat:
http://www.aquaboulevard.fr/aquaboul...html#/homePage
https://www.google.com/search?q=aqua...=1600&bih=1075
If not on birthday some place for kids that many French/Parisian families like to do.
May 6th, 2015, 07:34 PM
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Thanks for all the suggestions! Le Train Bleu does look lovely. I also like that Ciel de Paris is closer to where we're staying. It's great to have options. Petit Palais also looks like a nice place to stop for lunch on any of the days of our trip. She does want to go someplace a little special and neither of my kids really cared for Disney, even when they were small. We've been to Florida a few times to visit family and they've never asked to return to Disney.
