Suggestions for restaurants in Paris for $100 for two?
 

Does anyone have names of their favorite restaurants where two can eat for under $100? My husband and I have a budget of about $1000. to spend on lunch and dinner for a week in Paris. Is this possible?

No, it's not possible, but thanks for asking.

Really, Elaine? That would be about 80 euro for two for dinner. Surely, there must be some decent places to have dinner within this price range.

MrsP, we would have no trouble having excellent meals on your budget. In November, we had 3 course dinners for 2 with full bottles of wine for $80 and less. Without wine the dinners are about 20 Euros each, not much different than we spend in central Mass.

We stay in the 14th, rarely hear English spoken and they are small restaurants where the natives eat. The seating ranges from 15 to 30.

The hotel staffs where we've stayed have given excellent recommendations and others we have found while walking around and studying the clientele and the menu.

A couple of my favorites and what two of us spent this past summer including a bottle of nice wine and an extra tip (in euro -- you do the math):

Le Petite Prince (5th): 81 euro
Astier: 73.50 euro
Aux Charpentiers (6th) (twice):74.60 and 82.50 euro
Le Temps Perdu (6th): 60.75 euro
Chez Jenny at Republique: 51.90
Reine Blance (Ile St. Louis): 59.80
Le Petite Cour 6th: 96.00 splurge wine.

MrsPN=Queridissima=nannyanny=the other aliases

Elaine,

your expertise in detecting multiple screen names astounds me. I had no clue that this innocent sounding posting was not. Even the usually alert Patrick missed this one...how did you do it?

Are you kidding me? I missed this one entirely. Then clicked on the name and see the usual signs in all the posts. I'm sure Elaine is right. She has troll radar.

Patrick, thank you for those suggestions. I was sort of under the impression that our budget would be enough money for the week. Actually, I believe that we can eat quite well on $1000. for the week. Can't wait to go.

Elaine, I am totally baffled by your accusations. Infact, you seem to be obssessed with the subject. Which makes me wonder about you. How does anyone know whether you don't have a few aliases yourself and that you are having a fun time fooling the rest of us? Are you this Nanny Anny, Queriwhatever? A most likely scenario, I would say. I just joined this forum yesterday but I am not about to accept your flase accusations, thank you very much. I took the time and read your posts and you seem to well versed in trollism. You are bringing some suscpicious light onto yourself!

Yes, MrsNelson. I actually have compiled a list of such restaurants, gleaned in more than 65 trips to Paris.

Unfortunately for you, I'm not sharing it with people who live under bridges.

Sorry;)

Patrick/LaidBack, etc.: It was immediately apparent in an earlier thread on breakfast in Italy.

That's fine StCirq, I don't really need any suggestions from you! 65 times to Paris? Now was that Paris, Texas?

Hi StCirq
thanks for chiming in.
I would cut back on my 'flase accusations' but I don't know what a flase is.
:)

That was a simple typo, Nanny Anny, oops, I mean Elaine. Not sure what to call you anymore. You do go by so many lovely names, don't you!

still going to Paris with hubby, dear?

Nanny, yes I am. NannyElaine, I could care less that you are a troll. But why do you have to be such a mean one? Life is too short to be so sharp tounged and mean spirited. If you are going to be a troll then why not be a nice one then?

MrsNelson: I'm really quite thrilled that you don't need suggestions from me, as I am not going to offer any. I'm sure you'll get plenty of ideas from people who don't recognize you as NellyAnne/etc/bla bla bla - the troll who is out to get elaine for some completely of the wall reason.
What IS it about elaine that gets to you so deeply? As far as I can see she is a decent human being who knows a LOT about Paris as well as other places, and shares willingly and generously and intelligently. What could you possibly have a problem with that? Oh! maybe I've answered my own question - maybe you can't answer any question on the Fodor's Europe Board because you haven't traveled anywhere and don't know anything. Just a passing thought.

Your countless stupid puerile posts under various similar nicknames are just so tiresome it's unbelievable. I hope the Fodor's editors "dip" you before you can change to yet another screen name.

St Cirq, I do not care for any imput from someone as pretentious as you! Open your eyes, Cirq, Elaine has various names and she is pulling the wool over your eyes or are you too naive to realize that? Read her comments on trolls. It' very interesting and it seems that she has some "inside scoop". It's actually pretty obvious to me and I have only been on this forum for 3 days. So unless you two are in cahoots, there is no need to take on such a nasty tone with me.

although these postings remain, the name is no longer registered, or something, nothing happened when I just clicked on it.

I clicked on the name also out of curiosity. How do these names become "deregistered"?

Hi 111

if you go to "Profile" you can change your email address (attractive for those who don't want to get 'caught' and just sign up for new accounts at yahoo), you can change your password, and, at the bottom, you can delete your entire listing.

Thanks elaine. Now I know.

Actually it's pretty interesting how people can have so much time on their hands to use multiple accounts -- but then I guess I waste my time some other way. :-)

I'm sorry Elaine. As I get older, people confound me more and more.
Seems to me, you've been kind, witty and helpful on this forum. I don't get the animosity.
Stay on board, please? You're the most organized person! How I admire that!!
And, **** 'em

it's because 'those people' don't really travel.
:)

thanks, SuzieC
Organized on some things perhaps, but definitely not on others
You should see the envelope with my bits and pieces for my taxes!
:)

I don't know who MrsPNelson is, but it seems to me that a new participant who is attacked the way she was would have good reason to desubscribe and disappear.

What was it about MrsPNelson's initial question about the $1000 budget for two for a week in Paris that set everybody off?

Ckenb:

It was not MrsPNelson's question about Paris restaurants that set us off but her posts in a thread called, I think, "Breakfast in Italy."

There, she attacks Elaine violently, in a fashion that regular users are very accustomed to seeing under her roughly 10 to 20 previous "incarnations."

I am kinda of new to this BB thing but I know I like it. its almost like reading a bunch of travel books everyday
for free. I just don't get why someone
would use more then one screen name to try to fool other posters? LOL, I guess it takes all kinds of people to make up this crazy would we live in.

In reading this thread, it does seem to have come off the rails rather quickly. I was going to suggest a few places for $135 for two .... I realize that exceeds the number posted .... and like Elaine, I find $1000 for a week a bit low. I would suggest the poster consult the Cheap Eats book ... our experiece, as recently as a trip to Paris in January this year, confirms this is one very reliable source for moderately priced restaurants. I do wish the poster good luck, but she ought to forget the $100 idea. Unless you wish to shop and then dine in your hotel room. We've actually done that for lunch once or twice, with a nice red, and it was a pleasant break.

I think it would be easy to spend $100 a day for meals for two people in Paris. But if I wanted to spend less, I could. I just wouldn't go to famous restaurants.

I don't really think that $1000 is too low. If that's what there is to spend, it's just right! :)

For someone who actually IS going to Paris and was thinking that they could get decent dinners for two for under $100 I ask this question: If we aren't wine drinkers, does this make it more feasible? We are going for five days and I am allotting about $800 for lunch and dinner. I'm also pretty picky so I won't be eating anything very fancy. ;) I would love to get the advice of well traveled fodorites since I am such a newbie. Thanks.

At five days and $800, can you handle it on $100 per dinner and $60 per lunch? In the final analysis, you're really the only person who can address your question. If $800 is what you have to spend for five days, then that's that.

I am new to this bb, so I don't get all on the inside stuff with trolls, elaine, etc.... but it does seem that there are some people who genuinely want to know what to budget for Paris.
You don't have to go to nice restaurants every day. There are plenty of other options, for example, lunch in a cafe, crepes from a stand, falafel in the Marais, Vietnamese sandwiches in the 13th, a sandwich/quiche from a bakery or a picnic from a market.
For more affordable restaurants, check out the Latin Qtr, or around the Bastille area.

Hi 88
Yes, it's feasible. It's not that prices in French restaurants have skyrocketed per se, it's just because of the unfavorable euro-dollar exchange rate that a
30 euro dinner becomes a $40+ dinner.

I'd suggest for lunches keeping things simple, salad, omelette, crepes. Plenty of places offer that. Stay away from American soft drinks like Coke, that will add up, as will bottled water.
Ask for un carafe d'eau, a pitcher of tap water.

Let me suggest that for dinner you rely on the many suggestions available here (search on Paris restaurant)
One place last month that we thought were good deals were Perraudin, in the 5th, and for a bit more of a 'splurge', Chez Maitre Paul. Both can be searched on here by name.

We had one dinner at La Fontaine de Mars, which is very often praised here.
We didn't care for it much, we were surrounded by smokers for one thing, but it turned out to be our most expensive dinner by far and not a good value for what it was, we thought. I just got my credit card bill, for two people it came to $149 and we ordered from the regular menu and shared a half-bottle of house wine which was only, I think, about 14 euro.

phread, I see you registered about a half hour ago and you used exactly the same sentence as jeffwill4you about being new to this "BB"
Did you get tired of being Mrs PN and decide to take another shot?

Thanks, that was pretty much what I was looking for. You read some posts and see things like "$1000 for a week - are you out of your mind?!" and then panic because you've never left the country and suddenly feel very naive and ill prepared. How much does a Coke actually run over there? I've seen this warning before and since that is my main vice, I'm not so sure I can make it five days without one!

88
in addition to searching here and elsewhere on restaurants, I have a long file on Paris; if you'd like to see it and your email can accept large attachments, email me at
[email protected]

No reason to panic over money, you'll be able to enjoy yourself, eat, and not go broke. :)

I have only $1,200.00 in our budget for food total for 2 people and we will be in Paris for 11 nights! (940 Euros) I think we can eat pretty good for that?