Chez Savy

Thursday, July 5, 2007
Dinner with Lowell, Christine and Rai

The GSB crew enjoyed a fancy French dinner in Paris the night before Naoto's wedding. According to the reviews Christine sent us, Chez Savy is an old Paris bistro founded in 1923 with Auvergne cuisine. The group was seated at a cozy booth in the back where Rai ordered us a great bottle of wine.

I had an aubergine appetizer, an amazing confit du canard (duck cooked in its own fat basically, yum!) with scalloped potatoes, and a rich mousse. Rai and Lowell's lamb is also in the picture. It was a great meal, all for about €60 per person.

Closest metro stop is Franklin-D-Roosevelt.

23, rue Bayard, 8e, Paris, France
01-47-23-46-98

Le Soleil

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Dinner with Lowell

I came across Soleil in a Food & Wine review on Parisian restaurants. Lowell and I went for dinner on our third night in Paris. It is a bit hard to find, partly because the street numbers in Paris don't necessarily match on the left and right side of the street, but it has a dark facade with a picture of the sun. Closest metro stop is La Tour-Maubourg.

We were a bit nervous because there was only one other table and they were in suits browsing a Sotheby's catalog. But the hostess was very sweet with impeccable English (and had also talked me through directions to the place when we called that we were running late), and we got a cute table in the window alcove.

The waitress brought us great zucchini fries while we purused the menu (though we have decided anything fried is really good...) We had a beet au gratin starter (also anything with cheese is good) and then lamb chops for two with globe artichokes, olives and lots of garlic (another easy win). The lamb was as good as the description in the F&W blurb, including amazing tender artichokes. We had a cheese platter for dinner, yum.

The total was €105, including one bottle of wine, for a pretty good meal in a romantic Parisian restaurant.

153 rue de Grenelle, 7th Arr., Paris, France
+33-1-45-51-54-12

Les Grillades de Buenos Aires

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Dinner with Lowell

Wonderful steak with Argentine chimichurri and Malbec. Funny, we spoke no French and they spoke little English, so we ended up communicating in Spanish at this Parisian restaurant...

54, rue du Monparnasse, 75014 Paris, France
01-43-21-56-74

Chez Nenesse

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Lunch with Lowell

We found this restaurant in Food & Wine magazine. Fantastic French bistro.

17, rue de Saintonge, 3e, Paris, France 75003
01-42-78-46-49