Paris: Recommendations and Restaurants
Restaurants
-Le Bistrot du Peintre (best from
the list)
-Le Petit Vendôme (second best!)
-Robert et Louise
-Le Bizetro
-Polidor
-Le Bouillon Chartier (very very
CHEAP!)
• Vegetarian Restaurants
-Le Grenier de Nôtre Dame
-Le Potager de Charlotte
• Bakeries & Pastries
-Alexine
-Pain Pain
-La Durée
-Angelina Paris ( beautiful cafe ith high end pastries, there is usually a pretty big line).
-Boris Lumé
-Le Grenier a Pain
Jazz bars
-38 Riv
-Le Caveau de la Huchette
-Le Baiser Salé
Night Life & Cool Bars
Rue de Lappe ( pedestrian street full of bars and clubs.)
Place de la Contrescarpe & Rue Mouffetard (beautiful square and pedestrian street full of bars and restaurants in the Latin Quarter)
Le Perchoir Marais
(Cocktail bar with a view of Paris)
Terrass" Rooftop Bar
Rosa Bonheur sur Seine (Floating bar on the Seine)
Moonshiner ( Pizza Place with a cocktail bar if you walk through the fridge!)
Views of the City
Arc de Triomphe ( best view)
Eiffel (Obviously)
Galeries Lafayette
Areas to walk around and lose yourself
Marais
St. Germain
Latin Quarter
Montmartre
Walk along the banks of the Seine from in front of the Musée d'Orsay all the way to the Eiffel tower.
Day trips outside Paris
Versailles
Fontainebleau (Amazing
Château, cute town with a big forest all around. Boulder climbing.
Reims ( Champagne area of France. Beautiful town and Cathedral. Take the Veuve Clicquot champagne tour.)
Chateau of Chantilly
Dijon
Provins ( Beautiful medieval town, see the birds of prey show they have!)
Favourite Museums
Louvre
Musée d'Orsay
Le Petit Palais
Le Grand Palais ( temporary exhibitions)
Arts et Métiers
Centre Pompidou
