Had enough of bad conference food? Feel like a potato coming out of the steamer? Then take a note of these insider top tips for some nourishment for real Parisian nosh.
First, and for the full Parisian experience, you’ve got to blend in and adopt the Parisian style: for the boys, mid-long untidy hair, leather jacket, shirt, skinny trousers and little white daps (not to be mistaken with the so called digitally accentuated pounding system!). For the girls well… your client meeting clothes will do.
Head over to Clair de Lune to slake your thirst (1 Rue Ramey 75018 Paris), one of the many trendy bars of Montmartre, and try everything you want to drink from Absinth to Pastis, following the footsteps of a famous former Montmartre resident, Van Gogh. If you manage to stand on your feet coming out of this, make your way to the top of the hill (if the drinks didn’t kill you then that will!) and search for the little street where the Salvador Dali museum is. You’ll find a little restaurant called Chez plumeau (4 Place Calvaire, 75018 Paris) – Book if you can and try the cassoulet (to die for!) or for the cheese lovers, the camembert fondu.
Alternatively there’s also a tiny little restaurant that doesn’t look like much on top of the hill from Le Clair de Lune called Le Petit Bleu where they do the best couscous in the whole of Paris (or shall I say in the whole of France?). After that I’ll leave it up to you to decide where you can indulge your wildest fantasies:
- Folies Pigalle (11 place Pigalle – 75009 Paris)
- Le Moulin Rouge (82, boulevard de Clichy 75018 Paris)
- Chez Michou (80 Rue des Martyrs 75018 Paris)
- L’Elysée Montmartre (72 Boulevard de Rochechouart 75018 Paris)
Enjoy!
Oh yeah and if anyone have free places for Le Web, I really really fancy feeling like a potato right now…
A guest post by Juliette Descamps (@JulietteCream). Social Media butterfly, natural born enthusiastic, ex Londoner, actual Parisian, food lover but only the one I’m not cooking. And yes, I am a cheap date…
