So you have literally the best meal you have ever had – BEST MEAL EVER! – and you return to Paris. How does one follow this meal? We had no plans for the evening. Fasting was an option (not sure if skipping dinner is actually a fast if you’ve eaten the way we did at lunch but…
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Paris: Gare au Gorille
Dinner on day five was at Gare au Gorille. What a truly fun, wonderful experience. Cool vibe, great food, terrific service. Love love love!! We started the day exploring Jardin des Plantes – the beautiful botanical garden in the 5th for the first time. It was the King’s garden and was originally planted as a medicinal garden by…
Paris: L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon
This next meal did not take place on Day Three like David Toutain but instead was sadly our final meal in Paris. Just like it was a bummer to end the trip with a disappointing experience I also thought it would be a bit of a downer to end my trip report on a sour…
Paris: Le Timbre
After a truly marvelous day of walking the streets of Paris, great museums, a superb lunch at Premices and excellent cocktails at the George V, we made the short walk to Le TImbre in the 6th at 3, rue Sainte-Beuve. The name translates to the “stamp” and it is indeed a postage stamp sized place. …
Paris: Prémices
After a week of serious eating in Paris, there were a few standouts but the one place that really hit on all levels for us was Prémices. The chef – Alexandre Weill – spent ten years as a banker at Morgan Stanley before deciding to attend culinary school and apprentice at a number of well known places such…