There are two places that i would avoid...

1. Mrs Manon Boulangerie - As I was eating my morning pastry i came acroos a huge black hair burried within, at the same time I cought a glimpse of an overweight man in the back kitchen with black hair...

2. Au Gourmet de L'Isle - The food here is disgusting but rated a Zagat 23, it has been suggested that they seeded the Zagat reviews and brought their rating up from a 13 to a 23 in just 6 months time.

There two r=places are reviewes on my blog along with some really ***good*** ones.

http://richardab.typepad.com/iheartp...eat/index.html

"There two r=places are reviewes on my blog along with some really ***good*** ones."

RichardAB, what does this mean; it's not very clear. And do you mean MISS Manon? I had very different experiences there and ate there 3 times.

RichardAB,

I just read your review of the Fontaine de Mars. You slather hot Dijon mustard on bread and eat that? Yuck. Who told you that was good? What a strange thing to do!

And you are disgusted by dogs in restaurants? I say you should stay in New York. Don't ruin Paris for the rest of us.

"You slather hot Dijon mustard on bread and eat that? Yuck. Who told you that was good? What a strange thing to do!"

A strange thing to do? I suppose you've never done the proper condiment tasting before have you?

Ezlivin,

Your message is not clear, at least not to me. Dijon mustard is good on steaks, french fries, and pork chops. I've never seen anybody slather it on bread. Yuck.

ckneb:

Have you ever tasted condiments in stores that specialize in them? Do you know that breads and different types of crackers are used to taste them? You apparently do not know this - since, you only wipe them in steaks and fries.

Go and visit Dijon. Perhaps, you'll see how things are done with tasting good mustard.

Beatchick, yes i meant Miss Manon, yuk.

To the others, yes Dijon mustard on crusty bread with sweet butter. Try it sometime, I just happen to LOVE dijon mustard, the hotter the better.

Concerning dogs, I think there is a place for everything and a restaurant is not a place for dogs, especially when people have them sitting on the chair or their lap. Can't people leave their precious pooch at home for a few hours?

I also feel the same way about smoking, but it looks like Europe is starting to take care of that too... (Italy and Ireland).

Well, I've been eating Dijon mustard since 1970. Maybe in Dijon you taste it on bread because you want to taste just the mustard. That's a tasting. In real life, you eat Dijon mustard on meats and french fries. It's too strong to be a good taste on bread. On bread you eat butter or cheese!

RichardAB,

Do they give you butter for the bread and mustard at the Fontaine de Mars? Or do you have to request butter?

Mustard is good with fats. That's why it's good on steaks, pork chops, and french fries. So if you put butter on the bread and then slather it with mustard, well... more power to you. Doesn't sound very good to me.

By the way, most dogs are cleaner than most people.

ckneb:

Well, you just have to go out a little bit more and be able to taste things that are beyond your personal perceptions. It's not the 70's anymore and new methods of eating and preparing dishes have evolved.

Mustard on steaks and fries are good, but you shouldn't dismiss how others do their tasting habits. Besides, yours may seem to be the unconventional to most, after all.

I'm sorry for butting in but are you refering to only Paris with this statement - "most dogs are cleaner than most people"?

French people would be shocked to see you eating Dijon mustard on bread -- even with butter. That's not a good taste. Sorry.

But let's move on. A chacun son goût.

I mentioned 1970 but here we are 35 years later and I'm living in France. Where are you?

Very funny, billy_boy! I never realized my remark, so complimentary to dogs, would be taken as an ethnic slur. You ought to be proud of yourself. My dog is surely cleaner than you!

Do eat in any "Brasserie FLO" (they're old buildings all over the place , you can have steak , choucroute , oysters , beef with thread , snails , crêpes suzette or crême brûlée....we , the French do enjoy a lot these huge XIXTH century places ...ask your hotel , they'll tell you all about it.
Even if you don't speak French , try anything figuring in :www.lexpress.fr/mag/saveurs
It's one of our weekly magazines , and besides politics and economy they talk a lot about food too.Bistro is a small restaurant that's nothing big , café is where you'll have a glass of wine , coffee , a sandwich , fromagerie is where you'll buy and try our 365 different cheeses , boulangerie is for bakery and so on.
Don't ever have pizza , buy chocolates at Hévin www.jphevin.com ,
grab a macaroon at Ladurée right after having a Pierre Hermé pastry at Les Deux Magots (expensive), go visit Poilâne www.poilane.fr , enjoy a lunch at Les Bouquinistes , close to Notre-Dame www.guysavoy.com, have a nice cup of tea at A Priori Thé at the Galerie Vivienne , next door to Jean-Paul Gauthier store.....and sorry to all the other great food places we have I didn't mention!!!!!
ps: can't mention 2 of my favorites!Le Plomb du Cantal , close to Montparnasse , very stuffy , if you spend more then 20euros per person including a pot of wine , you'll never be able to eat it all , and for a "dîner raffiné" , go to La Régalade , 30euros per person without the wine , 49,avenue Jean Moulin , XIVth , and do go there by cab!

Did you really mean to say "Don't ever have pizza..." ? I think there is great pizza to be had in Paris. Do you know the Pizzeria Sant'Antonio on the place du Bourg-Tibourg?

Hmm, if you mean Miss Manon at the corner of rue St. Paul and rue St. Antoine, we've been there several times and never had a problem. I think it's one of the better boulangeries in Paris.

(I'm starting to think that beatchick and I have very similar likes and dislikes. . . next time we're headed to Paris, I'll have to go back to her trip reports for tips.)

FWIW, I would not eat at Le Procope.

Ckneb:

Next time you make any statement, whether it's about food, dogs or cleanliness, make sure you have enough knowledge of things outside of your own, dirty and smelly little world.

I can smell you and your dogs all the way here in New York!

If you go to the Lido or Moulin Rouge, don't eat there (or any show for that matter). Just see the show. The food at the Lido is better than the M.R. BUT overpriced for what you get.

Billy-byo:

You must have a good nose. What do you know about my little world?

Are you a troll?