Red wine and baguettes on a very cold balcony

Hi All, are there plenty of places to buy alcohol in central Paris. (I mean off licences / wine shops).

I am off to Paris in two weeks and have the romantic idea about drinking red wine and baguettes on the very cold balcony of my hotel without paying hotel prices!!

Thanks C

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Hello C

you are certain to find red wine and baguettes with no problem. Wine can be found at most groceries (Franprix, Monprix, to name a couple).

Best

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Plenty, including grocery stores, markets,some pastry and %26quot;take out spots(the asian take out next to my hotel on one trip sold bottles, small and large of wine to go) etc. as well as regular wine shops!

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I recommend that you are a bit discreet about taking food and wine to your room. Many hotels does not permit meals in the room (for hygienic reasons I suppose, not getting the carpets all messed up with stains).

always bring some garbagebags with me to carry the winebottles, breadwrapping, chicken-bones or what have you, down with me each morning when I go out for my daytrips. There is always a wastebasket (with the green sacks) close by - they are all over Paris, so I can dump my bag.

I am also very careful to pick up crumbs etc. from the carpets.

No reason to fall out with the hotel manager over things that can be treated with just a little discretion.

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Well, TA is a swift censor!

Sorry if I mispelled a (British) English word. As I (try to) write British English, I normally add the US equivalent in parentheses : pavement (sidewalk). I should also have talked about %26quot;bums%26quot;...

Maybe I was blunt, but I think it is also the role of this forum to help visitors to get rid of their cliches (even if many people want to see Paris as they imagine it, not as it actually is) and to kill a few sacred cows.

Trying to %26quot;enact the cliches%26quot; (...and they are so many about Paris and France) puts the visitor at risk : at best of being slightly ridiculous, at worst of falling into the most unscrupulous tourist traps.

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%26gt;%26gt;Maybe I was blunt, but I think it is also the role of this forum to help visitors to get rid of their cliches (even if many people want to see Paris as they imagine it, not as it actually is) and to kill a few sacred cows.%26lt;%26lt;

May I correct you, you were for sure blunt, without the cliche of the frenchman wearing a beret, a baguette under its arm and a half emptied bottle of red in the right hand walking past the Eiffel Tower we%26#39;d only have half the visitors we get (now I leave this to everyones interpretation wether that%26#39;s good or bad).