chitownflyer: Yes, Bistro d'Oliver must be one of the best bargains in Paris, especially considering the location it's in. Thanks for the other recommendations. I'll write them down for next time.
Sounds like you had a wonderful time Bingo SF. Thanks for the rundown.
The next installment from someone who's being very slow about this:
We spent the evening after our lunch indulgence walking around the lively, restaurant-filled Latin Quarter. We saw the veggie restaurant where we had our tempeh meal last time we were in Paris. I didn't realize it at the time, but ironically enough it's on Rue de Boucherie. Neither of us were hungry for dinner, but agreed we’d get some hot chocolates when we returned to the hotel.
In the hotel bar we ordered two hot chocolates each with a shot of Grand Mariner. The bartender looked at us a little strangely, but did as we asked. Later on we realized why he perhaps thought our order a little odd – the hot chocolates were $7.50 each and the Grand Mariner was $16 each, making each cup of chocolate $23.50. Rod decided he was hungry and I figured he couldn’t eat alone so we also had cheese and tomato sandwiches at $15 each – for a grand total of $77. So that was our second over-priced meal in France.
I check email before going to bed.
Zach wrote:
I found the most fantastic deal on an incubator. It’s a $10,000 incubator and I’m getting it for $100. I used your PayPal account.
I wrote:
A laptop and an incubator? Well, we bought lunch and hot chocolates today. Maybe you should start looking at community colleges in California. I hear they are really very good.
Zach replied:
You’re not serious are you? You guys are really, really mean.
The following day we spent walking from the Sacre Couer to the Pompideu Center and the Stravinsky fountain. I was tempted to shop for fabrics and trims in the fabric market area but decided that would best be saved for a trip without Rod. I found lots of wonderful little artisan shops where I bought several pieces of jewelry and also a handmade beaded and feathered hanging lamp for our guest bath. The lightbulbs are different in France so when the bulb burns out I'll have to make another trip to Paris for replacements. I think that’s going to be our new nightlight that has to burn all the time.
Dinner was at Maceo, a recommendation from blairvanhorn. We had a little trouble finding it only because we didn’t realize the street numbers go up one side of the street and then down the other, so the restaurant wasn’t where we expected it to be. We were seated in a large dining room upstairs. The menu featured a vegetarian fixed-price option with a few selections to chose from within that. I had tempura eggplant with gnocchi preceded by an artichoke dish and followed by a dense chocolate torte. The three-coure fixed-price meal was $35 per person. We let the sommelier select wine pairing for us and each glass was wonderful and a bargain at only about $4-5 each.
Next: Exploring the islands and dinner at L'Angle.