eating in Paris

Hi, we%26#39;re about going to paris next january. Hotel and tickets already booked. We planning visiting several places of interest.

A bit concern about eating there. cheap but good. I know there%26#39;s KFC and MacD everywhere, but we wanna try something different.

Where we could find the area?

thx

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Hi

I went to Paris in April with my wife. I have made an interactive Google map of Paris on http://gardkarlsen.com/paris_france_map.htm . On this you will see some red markers and that is the places that we went to to eat while we were there. Maybe you can try out some of those places :-) Have a great trip to Paris.

Regards

Gard

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There are good value restaurants to be found in almost every arrondissement in Paris. Of the single digit arrondissements perhaps the 4th, 5th and eastern part of the 6th have the greatest concentration of good and less expensive places. There are also may places in the less touristy arrondissements with well-priced menus, usually a few Euros cheaper for the same quality. One such area is the Oberkampf area in the 11th arrondissement.

The small streets close to Place St. Michel in the 5th arrondissement have many cheap restaurants some of which may even have edible food.

Why would you travel to Paris and eat at KFC or McDos? Is that where you eat in Belgium?

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hi ,i have been in paris 3 times and i recommand le Quartier Latin place just across the river from Notre Dame .but how come you are going to paris and thinking about Mc donalds and KFC so when you go there just spent a little more money and enjoy the food

by the way le Quartier Latin it%26#39;s the place where you can find just restaurants with different cuisine

enjoy your trip and food

metro :Cluny La Sorbonne metro line #10

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hi ,i have been in paris 3 times and i recommand le Quartier Latin place just across the river from Notre Dame .but how come you are going to paris and thinking about Mc donalds and KFC so when you go there just spent a little more money and enjoy the food

by the way le Quartier Latin it%26#39;s the place where you can find just restaurants with different cuisine

enjoy your trip and food

metro :Cluny La Sorbonne metro line #10

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Hi,

I%26#39;ve been to Paris more than 20 times and don%26#39;t recommend the Quartier Latin ... There are good restaurants there, but for a %26quot;freshman%26quot;, it is difficult to seperate the good one from the bad, unless you have a restaurant-guidebook with you.

If you want to enjoy a typical french menu without emptying your purse, try Astier, 4, rue Jean Pierre Timbaud in the 11th. No reservation required for lunch.

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KFC and McD%26#39;s qualify neither as cheap nor good................ (and neither are they everywhere)

Get yourself Routard, a French guide published in English as the Rough Guide to Hotels and Restaurants in France. It recommends restaurants starting at about 12euros for 3 courses, usually in the kind of places that locals use. I have yet to eat somewhere in a place recommended by Routard that falied to live up to the review.

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Has anyone been to the Jules Verne Restaurant in the Eiffel Tower? I%26#39;ve read that having reservations there means that you can %26quot;jump the queue%26quot;. However, I%26#39;m not too adventurous of an eater. I do not want to eat entrails or organs...even if they are whipped up and prettily displayed. I can%26#39;t seem to find a menu for the place on their site...

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Jules Verne is a michelin starred temple to haute cuisine, which is shorthand for very expensive and formal. Not that that is all bad, but it usually requires more incentive than line jumping to want to dine here.

However, Altitude 95 is a bistro on the 1st floor of the ET that has simple foods like roast chicken and steak, as well as a lovely seafood platter.

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My teenage daughters and I ate on the cheap sumer 2005. There are plenty of cafes with plats du jour for 10 to 13 euros. It%26#39;s like the blue plate special. There are several in the 7th (we ate at Cafe du Marche on Rue Cler for 10 E each. We cut corners by ordering a carafe of water, rather than drinks, although a glass of house wine isn%26#39;t all that expensive. The Latin Quarter is filled with these type cafes, as well as lots of Greek places. We got a huge gyro, fries and soft drink for 5.50 E. Breakfast can be an inexpensive pastry or croissant from a bakery (or even cheaper - get b%26#39;fast stuff at the grocerie and eat in your room.) We also picnicked on the Champ de Mars - a rotisserie chicken, baguette, a bottle of wine, etc. Real inexpensive. Make sure you try at least one nutella crepe from a street vendor. Mmmmm.

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