Socialworker---so glad you enjoyed Le Parc aux Cerfs. As I said, we haven't been there in a few years but now that you reminded us of it we'll put it on the list again for next year. I remember having some kind of fish, but what stands out was the salad with dried cherries. Right now MDH is laughing at me for remembering food from several years ago.

How's the weather? We were there 10/21-10/25 and it rained all the time--yuk!

We were there for 3 days and it was really only Sunday that was super miserable in the rain department....Saturday was on and off drizzly, Monday was lovely and Tuesday--the day we were leaving---was forecast for more rain, but at least as of noon, it was still clear. Alas there is no way to know with Paris. The last time we were there before this trip was March of '04 and the precip was in the form of snow showers which were more manageable than is the driving rain!

Another vote for Le Parc aux Cerfs. We walked in at 9:00 tonight and left at 11:30 having had a superb meal. My son speaks French and asked the waitress to bring him her favorite dishes. She was very pleased by this, and he loved her choices (some wonderful vegetable salad with mozarella cheese and a shrimp dish) and I had the scallops and steak, both perfection. A fruit crumble with gelato to end it all. It wasn't too crowded and very pleasant, and just two blocks from our apartment. Thanks everyone.

So nancy, we ate there on successive evening since we were there on Monday evening. Was the waitress who made the recommendations the sweet young woman who wore glasses?

I also had the scallop 1st course and found it heavenly! Such a pleasant (and delicious) dining experience!

We may go back again tonight! The waitress we had looked Algerian...was a tad grumpy when we sat down but was all smiles as soon as Luke started chatting her up. We ate in the front room (when you enter on rue Vavin)I didn't realize there was another room until we left;

OK, so it was the other young woman.....the reason I thought it had to be the one w/the glasses was that she had such a sunny disposition and the one you describe was also there and "grumpy" seems to be an apt descriptor.

However, I should know better b/c altho a native speaker of English, I am quite fluent in Spanish, and service people I encounter who only speak Spanish, really seem to undergo a huge change of demeanor when I speak to them in their native language.

We too ate in the front room and I later read that there is an upstairs as well! I hope that the place continues to do a good business b/c it is really great!

Socialworker:

I am the one who recommended both LeTimbre and Le Sainte-Beuve. Hope you liked the hotel as much as we did. The translation of timbre is postage stamp which is rather befitting of the place!

This is too cosmic!! I was just posting to you about the hotel while you were writing this!