The e-gullet website can give you all the possible information that you could want for dining in every area and in every price range.

Enjoy

I dined at L'epi Dupin this past May (second visit) and it was great!

Monica ((F))

Thanks for all of the great advice as I am going to Paris next week. I will report on the restaurants that I went to when I get back!

These are the places in the 7th (or near) that we ate at this June/July.

La Terrasse
La Source
Cafe Verganno
Cafe Roussillion
Le Maupertu
Altitude 95

They were all fine. La Terrasse was for lunch the day we arrived. It was ok, not great...but I think that mostly had to do with us as we were tired, and just not totally coherent.

La Source was for dinner, but we were not very hungry. It was very rainy, so we just hung out there and had dessert and wine and it really hit the spot.

Cafe Verganno had great cafe au laits. We did have breakfast there once and they made omelets. Very good...small, different from here, but good.

Cafe Roussillion was for lunch one day. Very good, large portions though.

Le Maupertu was for dinner one evening. Very good, excellent service.

Altitude 95 was for my moms bday dinner. Yes, touristy, but actually it was very good. And very festive. A table by the window with a view, good food, good service...definitely a place to celebrate without paying an arm and a leg.

In reply to Author: Ackislander
Posting Date: 05/15/2007
re: Bistrot du 7eme.
I think I was here too..
You said the food was dry and overcooked and the service supercilious (waiter) and hurried (waitress). Was this the dark-haired waiter or bald?! Just wanting to compare notes! I was there on 17 Sept.

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My favorite place in the 7th is Cafe Roussillon, on the corner of Rue Cler and Rue de Grenelles. It is a local's place, run by an enthusiastic young team. Their menu isn't the stuff of legends, but IMO, they do have the best inexpensive steak in Paris: $38 Euros for 2 people. In addition they have great wines by the glass or by the liter. In addition their Magret de Canard is quite good also.

Simple but delicious food. I make it a point of going there everytime I am in Paris

Obelisque:

It was the young, dark-haired one!

Langcraft, we stayed across the street on the corner in an apt ..from Cafe Rousillon..
We were there every day around 5 for a drink and to just watch the world outside. Love watching the parents picking up the children at the school nearby and the men working in the market across Rue Grenelle..Ahh..you make me want to go back :)

<<The crepe stand on rue Cler is one of the best in Paris.>>

It WAS; the crepe stand is no longer there-- the guy died a few years ago.

Just visited the crèpe stand on Rue Cler in early Octobre. Crèpe maker had thick European glasses and a deft hand and was fully alive :-) He scolded us for trying to go inside to pay -- change was provided right out of his wallet.

You must be talking about the Greek restaurant (that used to be Tarte Julie) across from Hotel Leveque. Their crepes are pretty good too, but the famous "Rue Cler crepe stand" mentioned in older posts was closer to Cafe du Marche-- an old French guy. He died a few years ago. That was just a small stand (about the size of a phone booth)-- no place to go inside and pay.

another vote for Bistro Breteuil, at Place de Breteuil at the end (?) of the Champ de Mars.
Lovely seeting, good food, friendly service and a great price.

These are all walk-able-to from the 7th...

La Taverne 2, Place de l'Odéon 75006 Paris, France. On a nice day you can sit outside and sample mussels and Adelscott.

Cafe Bonaparte 42, r Bonaparte 75006 Paris, France (just down from Les Deux Magots. On a nice day you can sit outside and have a nice omelette.

Brasserie l'Île St-Louis, 55, quai Bourbon On a nice day you can sit outside to try charcroute or cassolet and they serve a great onion tart with Alsacian beer.

L'Atlas 11 rue de Buci. On a nice day you can sit outside and enjoy Oysters or moules frites.

L’Insulaire, at 16 rue Gregoire de Tours for an inexpensive Prix Fix dinner (13.5e IIRC) They have a great desert cheese plate. You'll have to sit inside, even on a nice day, but they have large windows.

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Madame Fifi,
I looked up my pics and on the awning of the crêpe shoppe (which OUI, is much bigger than a phone booth, with older gentlemen seated at the red outdoor tables and chairs) it said, "Crêpes Traiteur."

However, the little "booth" out-front where the crêpe-making occured was not much bigger than, say a portable hot dog stand in Chicago. Mais plus près de Rue Grenelle than Champs de Mars, oui.

Ce n'est pas mon nom.

Was it the shop with an old "Boucherie chevaline" sign?

Excusez-moi, Mademoiselle Fifi. c'est une grande erreur, non? Certainment Mademoiselle pas Madame. Je m'excuse.

Mais non, pas de horse meat, was in Rue Cler, near the Foie Gras shop. I have photos of both if interested.

Ugh, I do so miss Paris. I wonder if coming to this site makes it better or WORSE?!?! Anyone else feel that way??

Mais oui-- 28 rue Cler-- look closely at the antique glass work at the entrance.

Excerpt from Rick Steves:
"While you'll eat souvlaki and crêpes in this shop today, the classy old storefront is a work of art that survives from the previous occupant. The inset stones and glass advertise horse meat: Boucherie Chevaline. The decorated front, from the 1930s and signed by the artist, would fit in a museum."

Le Florimond..one of the best there is and I can't wait to get back this September..