Paris restaurants?
 

Can someone recommend restaurants within walking distance of the Eiffel Tower please.

Hi travelingcouple,
If you click on your name, you will find the answers to your query in April. Also, if your search "paris restaurant 7th" you will find a fair number of listings. Near the tower is Rue Cler area, which has been made popular by Rick Steves, and he has many recommendations (try "Rue Cler" also as a search)
Enjoy!
Mike

Hi, I have a great one. La Fontaine de Mars on St. Dominique. They serve classic French food and the waiters are very nice to Americans with very poor French. We had an appetizer, main course, and a creme brulee (Yummy!) along with a bottle of wine for about 80 euros. The food and atmosphere were fabulous!

Someone on this board recommended La Casa di Sergio (20, rue de l’Exposition). We tried it last month. Good food, charming atmosphere, tiny restaurant. Did not have reservations.

Chez Francis.

Well there are two restaurants right IN the Eiffel Tower, but I'd take the elevator rather than walking.

here is a link to your previous thread

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34597174

Au Bon Accueil.

This is a very good restaurant by the shadow of the Eiffel with faboulous food and decent wines.

La Fontaine du Mars is OK, but just like the previous poster may havea alluded to, everybody speaks terrific English and that they are too friendly to Americans - even the food taste like they were catered to American taste (imho, not really up to par with Au Bon Accueil).

We too thought that La Fontaine de Mars was good, but not great.

luvtotravel, that might have been me! We really enjoyed dinner at Casa de Sergio :)
Wasn't the owner a hoot?

Have heard many good reviews of Au Bon Acceuil.

We went to Bistro de Breteuil recently, not far from Tour Eiffel, but found the food to be very mediocre.

If you want a memorable dinner/lunch (but is very expensive), go to Jules Vernes on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower. Reservations are quite hard to get.

Two outstanding restaurants, with wonderful food and charming hosts, near the Eiffel Tower:

Le Florimond on Avenue de la Motte-Picquet

Le Petit Troquet on Rue del’Exposition

I second Le P'tit Troquet. Fabulous food that made me swoon, totally nonsmoking, lovely little bistro run by a charming family (Dad cooks, Mom hostesses, daughter serves). Not full of tourists, at least the night we went. (I think there was one other table with English being spoken.) But Mom and daughter speak English, and put up with our OK French. And the price is right -- 29.50e for starter, main and dessert. Get the pork with lemon confit -- it's to die for!! We had a lovely evening there and are still talking about it! (We went a month ago.)

Try:

Violon d'Ingres - rue St. Dominique - fancy but Christian Constant is a great chef.
Casa di Sergio - rue de l'exposition - he speaks great English and is very friendly to us Americans - just let Sergio be in charge of what you eat.
La Taverna - rue Cler (best dish of my trip, Risotto a la fraise)- run by a very nice woman.
Also at the corner of rue St. Dominique and rue Augereau is a Cafe something - is an offshot of Violon d'Ingres - more casual but food comes from Violon's kitchen.
A good lunch place is Bistro B on avenue de la Bourdonnais - also Cafe Bosquet (on avenue Bosquet)has a new chef who is good.
My kids loved the pizza at the place on rue Augereau right off of rue de Grenelle - it is run by a really nice Tunisian man - for something really casual.
We also had a couple of nice lunches at Cafe Rousillon - at the corner of rue Cler and rue de Grenelle - but if you get the short,dark haired waiter don't bother with french unless you are very fluent. Probably was the rudest waiter i've ever encountered in Paris!