Restaurant Recap
I’m really glad that you agree with my ideas and understand my concerns. I want to just recap and then Chris can email Sophie with a request for her to call for reservations. His email will include:
- A request for a reservation at Le Violon d’Ingres at 8pm or 8:30pm; this reservation can be made any day from Thursday, 24 April, until Thursday, 1 May, but we would prefer it to be later in the trip if possible.
- A request for a reservation at La Bastide Odéon at 8pm or 8:30pm, again any day from 24 April to 1 May. (Just to reassure you, our friends, Caryn and Warren, ate there on their honeymoon last July and said it was still wonderful. I will ask Chris to ask Sophie if she knows anything about it as well.)
- A request for a reservation at Le Pamphlet at 8pm or 8:30pm, again any day from 24 April to 1 May.
- A request for a reservation at l’Avant Gout at 8pm or 8:30pm, again any day from 24 April to 1 May.
- If at all possible, the reservations should be spaced out during the trip, rather than one in a row.
Once in Paris, we can (1) find out from Sophie her recommendations and (2) if we want, make additional day-of or day-before reservations at Le Maupertu, Chez Maitre Paul, Le Regalade—after reviewing the menu :)
If you have come across more casual places (especially those listed in Cheap Eats) that don’t require a reservation that you think might be good for lunch and/or dinner, please send them to me. My current list is mainly tearooms, wine bars, and boulangeries (places that sell pre-made sandwiches and salads), and includes (listed by arrondisement):
- 1er—Angelina (tearoom), 228 rue de Rivoli (Concorde or Tuileries)
- 1er—Colette (café w/water bar inside lifestyle shop), 213 rue Saint-Honoré (Tuileries)
- 1er—Juveniles (wine bar), 47 rue de Richelieu (Palais Royal—Musée du Louvre)
- 1er—Willi’s Wine Bar (wine bar), 13 rue de Petits-Champs (Pyramides OR Palais Royal—Musée du Louvre)
- 5e—Kayser (boulangerie), 8 rue Monge (Maubert-Mutualité)
- 6e—Bistrot des Augustins (wine bar), 39 quai des Grands-Augustins (Saint-Michel)
- 8e—Ladurée (tea room), 75 ave. de Champs-Elysées (F-D-Roosevelt) OR 16 rue Royale (Madeleine)
- 8e—Granterroirs (gourmet deli/café), 30 rue de Miromesnil (Miromesnil)
- 9e—Chartier (inexpensive bistro with communal tables), 7 rue de Faubourg-Montmartre (Grands Boulevards)
- 11e—Le Bistrot du Peintre (sophisticated restored Art Nouveau café), 116 av. Ledru-Rollin (Ledru-Rollin)