I guess they hired a meteorologist from the U.S. for Paris because the day dawned bright and clear and stayed that way until late in the day when it got cloudy, so much for the steady rain that was forecast.
We have a list of places we want to visit for either lunch or dinner before we leave. So today we decided to try La Bourse ou La Vie. It's owned and run by Daniel Rose, the American chef that created Spring which has been our "go to" high end restaurant in Paris for several years now. He opened it earlier this year and we just had to give it a try, because it's much less formal. He serves traditional French bistro food at reasonable prices. It's very small with what appears to be around 20 places. We just showed up without a
reservation and luckily there was a table available, all the other tables were filled. I had cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup garnished with a comte cheese while Deb had marinated poirot and green onion for starters. For plats Deb had a steamed cod with ginger and I had pot-au-feu, a kind of stew. But it started with deep fried veal cheek in ravigote sauce on a low bowl and a pot of stewed beef, carrot, kale, turnip, and beef marrow bone. So you eat the cheek then spoon the contents of the pot into the bowl. Fantastic. For desert we shared a rum baba which looked like sort of like a bagel with a creme filled center. They added a bit of orange to the cake which was a very delicate touch and then drowned it in rum, woohoo! However be warned, there is no sign other than the menu that identifies it, so you have to be specifically looking for it.
After lunch we decided that Nissim-Camondo was not a good possibility. So we decided to go to the Musee Curie instead and it was south in the 5th arr. Now I don't know what I must have been thinking but I knew exactly where it was and so we plotted route down via the Metro. We got on and had to change trains at St. Lazare, no problem. We took the next train down to the stop that I had previously identified and got off. I didn't recognize the exact corner so we asked a man if he knew where the Musee Curie was located but he didn't. So I volunteered that it was right next to the Institute Pasteur, he did know where that was and gave us instructions. So we followed them and as soon as we saw it I realized that I knew exactly where the Musee Pasteur was and for whatever reason Musee Curie didn't break through the concrete brain pan. And to top it off it was closed anyway! So we had a nice walk in the 15th arr. and finally caught a bus back to the apartment. A nice walk on a pretty much sunny day. Hope I don't do that again.
We have a list of places we want to visit for either lunch or dinner before we leave. So today we decided to try La Bourse ou La Vie. It's owned and run by Daniel Rose, the American chef that created Spring which has been our "go to" high end restaurant in Paris for several years now. He opened it earlier this year and we just had to give it a try, because it's much less formal. He serves traditional French bistro food at reasonable prices. It's very small with what appears to be around 20 places. We just showed up without a
reservation and luckily there was a table available, all the other tables were filled. I had cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup garnished with a comte cheese while Deb had marinated poirot and green onion for starters. For plats Deb had a steamed cod with ginger and I had pot-au-feu, a kind of stew. But it started with deep fried veal cheek in ravigote sauce on a low bowl and a pot of stewed beef, carrot, kale, turnip, and beef marrow bone. So you eat the cheek then spoon the contents of the pot into the bowl. Fantastic. For desert we shared a rum baba which looked like sort of like a bagel with a creme filled center. They added a bit of orange to the cake which was a very delicate touch and then drowned it in rum, woohoo! However be warned, there is no sign other than the menu that identifies it, so you have to be specifically looking for it.
After lunch we decided that Nissim-Camondo was not a good possibility. So we decided to go to the Musee Curie instead and it was south in the 5th arr. Now I don't know what I must have been thinking but I knew exactly where it was and so we plotted route down via the Metro. We got on and had to change trains at St. Lazare, no problem. We took the next train down to the stop that I had previously identified and got off. I didn't recognize the exact corner so we asked a man if he knew where the Musee Curie was located but he didn't. So I volunteered that it was right next to the Institute Pasteur, he did know where that was and gave us instructions. So we followed them and as soon as we saw it I realized that I knew exactly where the Musee Pasteur was and for whatever reason Musee Curie didn't break through the concrete brain pan. And to top it off it was closed anyway! So we had a nice walk in the 15th arr. and finally caught a bus back to the apartment. A nice walk on a pretty much sunny day. Hope I don't do that again.
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