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I will be in Paris from Wednesday - business then leisure. Back Sunday.
Any recommendations ? Good places for lunch etc ?
L'Entrecote 'Le Relais de Venise' in Porte Open crotch panties for a great steak and chips ... you will probably have to queue
Love this tiny little 'zinc' bar. Good food too. Don't let any gushing tourist reviews deter you. It really is the business:
http://www.qype.co.uk/place/36433-Au-Petit-Fer-a-Cheval-Paris
Also, there's a fantastic cafe with original 50's interior with futuristic chrome flowers as ceiling lights on the Blvd St Germain just 2 blocks up from Les Deux Magots (going up the road away from the Seine). Food and drink at a fraction of the price of the 'Deux' and the 'Flore' opposite. Bitterly regret that I can't recall its name but if you walk up that side of the road along the B-S-G you can't miss it.
Staceyboy
^ Good stuff.
If you feel the need, then go here, not to Flore or that Maggoty place:
http://www.ila-chateau.com/lipp/
Or save money & go elsewhere!
On the subject of Gene Kelly - he was truly one of the great loafer wearers. He also had a thing for France, and France a thing for him, as evidenced by Jacques Demy casting him in a French-speaking role in his magnificent picture from 1967 'Les Desmoiselles de Rochefort'. Here is a still of him from the film with Catherine Deneuve's sister Francoise Dorleac :
http://media.photobucket.com/image/Gene%20Kelly%20Desmoiselles/modillustr/francoise_dorleac04_toutlecine.jpg
Here's a great clip. I love this film, takes me somewhere else : www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UYZA0I4D60
The list of cafes in Paris has given rise to a surge of wanderlust in young Gibson Gardens. It has set me thinking of the Holy Grail of cafes, the Caffe` Sant'Eustachio in Rome. This link is worth clicking on just for the picture on the home page which makes me want to be there now :
www.santeustachioilcaffe.it/
Re Paris. Is OLD ENGLAND still good? I remember it as rather wonderful on previous Ivy focused trips (pre-parenthood days).
Also, and please forgive the rambling nature of this post, is there an easy way to put pictures up here? I hate being so technically backward.
Thanks
GG
Oh and the best opening title sequence EVER :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I_km8IkVsE&feature=related
GG
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For those interested in such things, IMHO this is the best vintage clothes shop in Paris:
Come On Eileen
16 Rue des Taillandiers
75011 Paris
Bought some lovely shirts and silk rep ties there in the past. Bonus is that 'Cafe Pause' is just around the corner. A nice place but maybe a little too hip for its own good. Had to brush past the rear of French actress Beatrice Dalle to get to a table there once. Worth the Eurostar fare on its own!
Staceyboy
GG - Old England is very Hacketty now.
Thanks Alex. I must be thick. I just don't get that stuff. It doesn't sink in. I'm a remedial case, but thanks for trying to help.
GG
where is the place in Paris that supposedly has tons of loden coats and accessories? I believe Horace mentioned it several years ago. It may be gone now...