Your favorite restaurant,etc near Invalides you'll absolutely revisit
Oct 12th, 2011, 07:49 AM
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Your favorite restaurant,etc near Invalides you'll absolutely revisit
I'm thinking I should always have problems like this! So many choices; so little time.
We will be staying in an apartment that's right off of Rue St. Dominique near the Invalides end of the 7th for 4.5 days over Thanksgiving weekend. I have stayed in the 7th about four times but husband has not. I am now trying to choose which places at which to take him to eat and am in a quandary.
I like too many.
So I'm throwing it out to you all who stay around there, and I hope you are up to the challenge:
"If you had only ONE DAY in this locale...
...Where would you eat breakfast?
...Where would you eat lunch?
...Where would you eat dinner?"
Note that I'm not asking, "Name your top five". I am asking just ONE choice for breakfast; ONE choice for lunch; ONE choice for dinner. I'm figuring that if I pose the question this way, I'll see some clear choices pour moi.
Thank you for bearing with my indecision.
We will be staying in an apartment that's right off of Rue St. Dominique near the Invalides end of the 7th for 4.5 days over Thanksgiving weekend. I have stayed in the 7th about four times but husband has not. I am now trying to choose which places at which to take him to eat and am in a quandary.
I like too many.
So I'm throwing it out to you all who stay around there, and I hope you are up to the challenge:
"If you had only ONE DAY in this locale...
...Where would you eat breakfast?
...Where would you eat lunch?
...Where would you eat dinner?"
Note that I'm not asking, "Name your top five". I am asking just ONE choice for breakfast; ONE choice for lunch; ONE choice for dinner. I'm figuring that if I pose the question this way, I'll see some clear choices pour moi.
Thank you for bearing with my indecision.
Oct 12th, 2011, 08:50 AM
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Café Constant for lunch
Florimond for dinner
breakfast - don't care, and would probably skip it anyway if I were going to have two great meals later in the day (which I wouldn't/couldn't do anyway - can't eat that much).
Florimond for dinner
breakfast - don't care, and would probably skip it anyway if I were going to have two great meals later in the day (which I wouldn't/couldn't do anyway - can't eat that much).
Oct 12th, 2011, 12:46 PM
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I am there regularly and eat in the area all the time. Breakfast depends on what you want...most people eat little. I go to a friend's place often..Flirt The..lunch Cafe Constant, dinner Violon d'Ingres.
I go to Le Florimond often. I will be there on Oct 28, in fact. You asked if only 1 choice for each meal is why the above, I go to Cafe Constant often for breakfast too..closer!
a bientot,
Joan
I go to Le Florimond often. I will be there on Oct 28, in fact. You asked if only 1 choice for each meal is why the above, I go to Cafe Constant often for breakfast too..closer!
a bientot,
Joan
Oct 12th, 2011, 04:58 PM
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I am hitting all the above when we are there in November! And also will hit Les Cocottes (a Constant restaurant).
I also really like Cafe Varenne for lunch (if they have tomato and mozzarella quiche...get it!) It is at 36 rue de Varenne at the corner of rue de Bac.
Our favorite place, so far, is L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon. It is a splurge place (at least for us). But, we love it. We had an amazing degustation menu lunch 2 years ago that we still talk about. Last year, we didn't do the degustation but still had several courses and were happy to be back there. We love the seating around the kitchen...not stuffy but great service. It is at 5 rue de Montalembert. (also just off rue de Bac). There is also a newer location in the 8th.
I also really like Cafe Varenne for lunch (if they have tomato and mozzarella quiche...get it!) It is at 36 rue de Varenne at the corner of rue de Bac.
Our favorite place, so far, is L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon. It is a splurge place (at least for us). But, we love it. We had an amazing degustation menu lunch 2 years ago that we still talk about. Last year, we didn't do the degustation but still had several courses and were happy to be back there. We love the seating around the kitchen...not stuffy but great service. It is at 5 rue de Montalembert. (also just off rue de Bac). There is also a newer location in the 8th.
Oct 13th, 2011, 10:07 AM
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I am enjoying the replies.
Question: One family member ate at Violin d'Ingres. I have not eaten there yet nor at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon yet. Anyone eaten at both and could rank them?
Comments on above recs: Have eaten at Le Florimond, Fontaine de Mars, and Les Cocottes (got the last two seats in a deluge--made the meal that much better), but have not eaten at Cafe Varenne nor Cafe Constant yet. Totally understood about "Wish I could go there tonight" for Le Florimond. Eating there is like getting a big hug around your shoulders and your tummy.
Question: One family member ate at Violin d'Ingres. I have not eaten there yet nor at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon yet. Anyone eaten at both and could rank them?
Comments on above recs: Have eaten at Le Florimond, Fontaine de Mars, and Les Cocottes (got the last two seats in a deluge--made the meal that much better), but have not eaten at Cafe Varenne nor Cafe Constant yet. Totally understood about "Wish I could go there tonight" for Le Florimond. Eating there is like getting a big hug around your shoulders and your tummy.
Oct 13th, 2011, 12:17 PM
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We ate at Cafe Constant for lunch 2years ago and have to say we did not have a good meal at all....ordered the chicken and got a chicken back and tiny little drumstick.
Will try Le Florimond in May.
Will try Le Florimond in May.
Oct 16th, 2011, 09:30 AM
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Actually, three family members ate there together (one made the reservation). Two of the three I would consider to be foodies, people with whom I usually agree, and they loved everything from service, to menu, to presentation, to food. Both said it was "art."
I guess my only reservation before I make reservations is that I no longer want "ta-duh!" in food. I want to feel cozy, and I want the food to make me feel cozy, too. Thus my strange query to this board. I was hoping the phrasing might ring like Calvin Trillin's assertion, which I'm paraphrasing: "Don't tell me what restaurant you think would impress me (which he refers to as the local 'La Maison de la Casa House'; just tell me where you'd like to go." There's a big difference, right?
I've eaten at Fontaine de Mars twice. I'd say the first time in 2006, I felt the service was a tad strange, but both my fois gras and my duck breast (two of my go-to dishes in France), may have been close to my best-ever versions in France.
The second time, I think it was in 2007, eh, it was good but not something to write home about. Service still felt strange.
I see that no one has listed Le Petit Troquet. We had had a lovely dinner there in 2006.
Again, I have eaten at Les Cocottes, but still have not made my way to Cafe Constant.
I guess my only reservation before I make reservations is that I no longer want "ta-duh!" in food. I want to feel cozy, and I want the food to make me feel cozy, too. Thus my strange query to this board. I was hoping the phrasing might ring like Calvin Trillin's assertion, which I'm paraphrasing: "Don't tell me what restaurant you think would impress me (which he refers to as the local 'La Maison de la Casa House'; just tell me where you'd like to go." There's a big difference, right?
I've eaten at Fontaine de Mars twice. I'd say the first time in 2006, I felt the service was a tad strange, but both my fois gras and my duck breast (two of my go-to dishes in France), may have been close to my best-ever versions in France.
The second time, I think it was in 2007, eh, it was good but not something to write home about. Service still felt strange.
I see that no one has listed Le Petit Troquet. We had had a lovely dinner there in 2006.
Again, I have eaten at Les Cocottes, but still have not made my way to Cafe Constant.
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Oct 17th, 2011, 05:39 PM
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Le Billabaude, at 29 Rue de l'Exposition, right around the corner from you. Small, efficient, traditional and wonderful. Game is a specialty. Opens at 7:30 p.m.
No web site; phone is 01 45 55 20 96.
No web site; phone is 01 45 55 20 96.
Oct 19th, 2011, 04:51 AM
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AZ: If you're looking for "cozy", then you should try Cafe Constant. It's our go-to resto in this area, preferred over Fontaine de Mars and Le Petit Troquet. Be sure to look at current post by gracejoan3 who's in Paris now and eating at some newer places in the 15th. EJ
Oct 19th, 2011, 06:10 AM
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Thanks, EJ. You are psychic--I was just looking at GraceJoan's stuff yesterday. However, you do realize, I hope, you just said the magic words for my query--"It's our 'go-to' restaurant." That's exactly what I had in mind.
