Here are some recommendations! Of course, it has been a few years (although Davis and Libby went the following year and the Vietnamese place was still good) so I would check and see if they are still there, and I would hope they are still good. I am sure you'll have many places to go, but if you find yourselves in these neighborhoods, it's worth a try!
Paris-Hanoi
74 rue de Charonne, 11th arrond. 01 47 00 47 59 Vietnamese...a tiny place, although I think they may have opened another one somewhere else. The best Viet. food I ever had. We went for an early dinner and when we came out there was a line down the block. I am sure we were the only Americans there, at that time.
Pâtisserie Viennoise
Best Hot Chocolate if you like it dark! Old place, been there forever, I think. Near the Sorbonne
8 rue de l'Ecole de Médicine 6th arrond.
We also found a great little crêperie in a market alley near the exit of the Catacombs (which were totally fantastic!) in the 14th. I just found the card...La Belle Ronde, 19 rue Daguerre. It think it was fairly new, so who knows?
Oh, and one more...we found this little nondescript Franco Italiennes restaurant near our apt. in Monmartre.
La Capriciosa...it was Gabe's favorite restaurant. They had great pizza and I had a fantastic salad that I can still picture!
6 rue Sainte Isaure.
Bon voyage, and bonnes vacances!!!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Recommendations! (especially for a Vietnamese place)
Here are some recommendations! Of course, it has been a few years (although Davis and Libby went the following year and the Vietnamese place was still good) so I would check and see if they are still there, and I would hope they are still good. I am sure you'll have many places to go, but if you find yourselves in these neighborhoods, it's worth a try!
Paris-Hanoi
74 rue de Charonne, 11th arrond. 01 47 00 47 59 Vietnamese...a tiny place, although I think they may have opened another one somewhere else. The best Viet. food I ever had. We went for an early dinner and when we came out there was a line down the block. I am sure we were the only Americans there, at that time.
Pâtisserie Viennoise
Best Hot Chocolate if you like it dark! Old place, been there forever, I think. Near the Sorbonne
8 rue de l'Ecole de Médicine 6th arrond.
We also found a great little crêperie in a market alley near the exit of the Catacombs (which were totally fantastic!) in the 14th. I just found the card...La Belle Ronde, 19 rue Daguerre. It think it was fairly new, so who knows?
Oh, and one more...we found this little nondescript Franco Italiennes restaurant near our apt. in Monmartre.
La Capriciosa...it was Gabe's favorite restaurant. They had great pizza and I had a fantastic salad that I can still picture!
6 rue Sainte Isaure.
Bon voyage, and bonnes vacances!!!
Paris-Hanoi
74 rue de Charonne, 11th arrond. 01 47 00 47 59 Vietnamese...a tiny place, although I think they may have opened another one somewhere else. The best Viet. food I ever had. We went for an early dinner and when we came out there was a line down the block. I am sure we were the only Americans there, at that time.
Pâtisserie Viennoise
Best Hot Chocolate if you like it dark! Old place, been there forever, I think. Near the Sorbonne
8 rue de l'Ecole de Médicine 6th arrond.
We also found a great little crêperie in a market alley near the exit of the Catacombs (which were totally fantastic!) in the 14th. I just found the card...La Belle Ronde, 19 rue Daguerre. It think it was fairly new, so who knows?
Oh, and one more...we found this little nondescript Franco Italiennes restaurant near our apt. in Monmartre.
La Capriciosa...it was Gabe's favorite restaurant. They had great pizza and I had a fantastic salad that I can still picture!
6 rue Sainte Isaure.
Bon voyage, and bonnes vacances!!!
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Mot du Jour 7: something we will not see
The second mot du jour today is actually a jeu de mot.
The word is something that we will see in neither French nor English:
Vache.
In French, une vache is a cow. There are none of them in Paris, at least as far as I know, at least not in their full and living glory.
In English, v'ash is a verb, meaning to get your flight totally screwed up by an Icelandic volcano, which is something that could not possibly happen two years in a row, at least not in a well-ordered universe like this one, notwithstanding the fact that Keflavik airport in Iceland is in fact closed at the moment just as it was exactly one year ago this moment.
Neither form of the word will have bearing on our travels.
Neither form of the word will have bearing on our travels.
Mot du Jour 6
It's time for another mot du jour.
Today's word: Flâner (verb; pronounced "flah-nay"); noun--flânneur (flah-nuhr), one who flânes.
To flâne is one of our favorite things to do in Paris. It involves walking shoes, a general destination, and a sense of casual indifference about ever actually reaching that destination.
The word means "stroll," but that pedestrian word with its evocation of things that live under bridges doesn't begin to capture the pleasure. It's all about the freedom of wandering, of changing course to check out something interesting or beautiful, of not needing to know what the goal is, because the goal is the pleasure of walking, looking, breathing, seeing.
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