To eat or not to eat: Ode to Chandni

We ate here almost every day. Open until midnight! Our favorite gelato place.



Grom France SARL
81, Rue de Seine
75006 Paris, France
01 40 46 92 60


Crêperie Josselin


Del Papa


Street crêpe in the Bastille


L'As du Falafel


ZenZoo


Aki


El Nopal


First Mexican burrito in Paris!


El Nopal
3, rue Eugène Varlin
75010 Paris
07 86 39 63 46

Café Moderne (Couscous !)

After Le Grand Tasting, I met up with Nina to hang out a bit. Here is Galleries Lafayette - it was way too crowded so we got the f out.




On our way to eat dinner, we walked by an art gallery where the artiste did an entire collection on Obama


Tuna Pastilla - delicious, juicy


Chicken Pastilla - delicious


Couscous ! Also accompanied with raisins and Harissa sauce


Soup


Nina ordered braised beef


I ordered grilled Cote d'agneau


Perfect combination


And of course, mint tea. Perfect end to the meal


This place is very casual - the food was delicious and satisfying. However, I do like Wally Le Saharian a bit more (but not for dessert and tea).

Café Moderne
19, Rue Keller
75011 Paris, France
+33 1 47 00 53 62‎

La Gazetta and Nina day

Grabbed lunch with Nina today at La Gazzetta (referral from the book Hungry for Paris). Some dishes were good like the sardine rillettes (ummm garlic, eggplant, red peppers) and the chou-fleur soup (cauliflower - simple but delicious). And also "foie de volaille" (poultry/chicken liver) on a thin piece of pita-type bread. It tasted like vomit/stomach acid. Major turn-off. *Shudders.* I had a beef dish with spinach and squash that was pretty good. Nina had a braised beef dish which she did not like. Overall it was decent for the price but I probably won't go back.

Massa-san, my colleague from my last resto was supposed to work here in December. Unfortunately, the contract fell through. He happened to be in Paris that day and actually stopped by the resto to see if the chef was in. He ended up walking around Paris with us.





We walked from the Bastille all the way to the Pompidou and Les Halles.

We went to Chez George which is (on the top floor of the Pompidou) to have ridiculously expensive smoothies that aren't as good as back in the States. The French have just begun catching on to the smoothie craze.





See Sacre Coeur ? I'd love to live in Montmartre someday.




This is a place where all the trendy folks and hipsters go to hang out. It has a beautiful ambiance - can't say much about the food.







Earlier, I had stopped by Pain de Sucre to grab a little gateau for Nina's late birthday treat. I had tried to work something out earlier in the week but we were both too busy to meet up even though we live one stop away from each other now. So Nina ended up carrying her lil treat the entire afternoon. Didn't get a chance to munch on it until we sat down at Chez George.



Tant pis !


The lil gateau was SUPER rich and heavy on the green tea. One bite was enough for me. Pretty good though. As for the pain au chocolat, I've had better.

Pain de Sucre‎
14, Rue Rambuteau
75003 Paris, France
Tel: 01 45 74 68 92‎

I had a lot of errands to run, and thankfully, Nina was very patient and came with me. I had to go to H&M since it was the only place that carried baby clothes. H&M at Les Halles is like COSTCO in Sunnyvale. On a Saturday afternoon. *Shudders again* But I got that over with. We ended up walking around rue Montorgeuil, then through rue de St. Denis where the prostitutes were getting ready for work. Then all the way back to the 18th. Didn't take one metro - it was nice! I need to do this more often. Didn't get back home until around 20h30 ! Was a pretty productive day.

Le Bistro Paul Bert

We spent the rest of the afternoon in the first and second window shopping, taking a coffee, and buying some kitchen stuff. (Yay, I finally got financier molds !) We were pretty tired from being out all day so we went back at home to rest.

Then dinner at Le Bistro Paul Bert... at 22h30. It was the only time available.

Me and Matt opted for the foie gras with figues confit.


He got the parmentier


I got the côte d'agneau on top of a bed of legumes, of course. Really good.


Pim got the steak frites. This was delicious.


I'm in a huge figue phase right now - so I had to get it for dessert. (Figues in honey + vanilla ice-cream)


We finished eating around 1h00. =D

If you want some good ole rustique traditional French cuisine, this is the place to go. And I love how there is a sign underneath the steak frites option that says "Cuire bleue ou saignant seulement !" (Cooked 'raw' or medium rare only!) That is the only way to do it! And the right way.

Absolutely wonderful. I will be back.

Le Bistro Paul Bert
18, rue Paul Bert
75011, Paris
M: Faidherbe-Chaligny
Tel: 33 1 43 72 24 01
(Be sure to make reservations)