Paris Bistros

NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:21:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:59461 nyc.food:13566

Someone wrote:
> Will be going to Paris next month and looking for a few bistros for dinner
> and maybe lunch.
> I have been looking online and the problem is that there are just so many to
> choose from.
> Can anyone give me a few ideas from personal experience.
> I am not looking for the Tour d'Argent type of restaurant, there are too
> many good ones in New York.
> But looking for the French bistro or brasserie type of place.

Check out what Clotilde has to say in Chocolate & Zucchini; here the link to the restaurant reviews:

http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/cat_the_restaurant_scene.php

And also, ask in her forum:

http://chocolateandzucchini.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=4

And read the whole blog regularly, it absolutely lovely!

Pierre

wrote:

> My wife and I will be visitng Paris for a week in late May-early June.
> We both enjoy bistro fare. Can anyone recommend one or more
> not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstaces bistros? I have enjoyed cooking
> from Linda Dannenberg's 1991 "Paris Bistro Cooking", and will try to
> visit some of those she featured, especially A L'Impasse and La Fontaine
> de Mars, if they are still open. But we would welcome suggestions,
> particularly for Bistros Classiques.

<http://www.iht.com/IHT/DINE/index.html>
International Herald-Tribune restaurant reviews. There are few people whose advice on what and where to eat come close to be being as reliable as Patricia Wells. I can't imagine heading for Paris and not having read her reviews. Fortunately they're available at the URL listed above.  Her reviews cover haute cuisine, bistrots, brasseries and a few restaurants outside of Paris, not to mention a few outside of France.  Recently she was in Hong Kong and Asia.