This will be our first time in Paris and we will be there for 3 nights and then plan on renting a car and driving down to Grasse. Any suggestions on cafes, places to eat that will give us true French food without breaking the bank? Some nice cafes that we can enjoy some wine and people watch in the evening? Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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To answer your first question, I have stayed in the area and I always felt very safe, even if walking by myself at night (I%26#39;m female). It is a busy area, so there will be other people out and about.
I am not a foodie so I don%26#39;t remember/never paid attention to the names of restaurants and cafes, but there are a multitude of places to eat and drink in that area. All menus are posted outside so you can look at them prior to entering.
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I was just there last week. The area is great and perfectly safe. For eating we like the street called Rue Mouffatard. There are some places at the Square Contrascarpe. We ate at Delmas twice and liked it. The little quiche place down the hill a ways, is great. The place with the black and white cows in the window is good too.
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I echo the post above. I just got back from Paris and walked through that area a lot. Very safe feeling. Tons of places to eat in the area.
I ate at this place last night tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d1…
Very lovely, warm people and the food was great. Very popular restaurant in an area packed with places to eat.
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You will be surrounded by places to eat and all restaurants must, by law, display their menus with prices, outside their establishments, so jus wander auntil you see something you like and have at it! For people-watching the Place St. Michel is the best area close by, but again there are cafés everywhere in that area...
On another topic, unless you are planning a leisurely trip to Grasse with lots of sight-seeing along the way, you%26#39;ll get there a lot quicker and probably cheaper if you take the TGV to Aix-en-Provence and rent your car there.
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The little place Suzanne mentioned %26quot;down the hill a ways%26quot; is called Mouffe-Tarts. It%26#39;s terrific. It%26#39;s tiny...I mean TINY. I think it seats 16 a la sardine. I took two friends a couple of weeks ago and they both said it was the best lunch of the trip. If you%26#39;re a fan of eggplant (aubergine) do try the eggplant parmesan tart. It%26#39;s fantastic. You can actually taste (wonderfully fresh) eggplant!
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Happy Goin%26#39; - a little off-topic so I hope I won%26#39;t be deleted! I thought eggplant parmesan tart sounded wonderful so did a google search to see if I could find a recipe. You won%26#39;t believe this, but the only thing I found which might slightly resemble what you%26#39; re talking about was from the Boston Globe! Small world. :-) Is this similar?
boston.com/lifestyle/…
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The area is fine. Happy Travels!
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Hi Kiwi, I am a religious reader of the food section of the Boston Globe and remember that piece! I didn%26#39;t until you linked it, so thank you.
This should keep things on topic :) The tart at Mouffe-Tarts was similar to that recipe except that there wasn%26#39;t lots of gooey mozzarella cheese (something I dislike intensely anyway). There was parmesan cheese, which isn%26#39;t gooey at all, or shouldn%26#39;t be. And only a bit of it. Plus it was in puff pastry, bien sur. I would guess that the BG editors were simplifying the recipe for home cooks when they called for a pizza dough crust. Ha! Have they never heard of Dufour??
My problem with most eggplant parm is that all that gooey cheese masks the delicate flavor of the eggplant. Why not just melt a gob of cheese on a plate and scarf that down?? At any rate, Mouffe-Tarts is a good enough reason for me to have a run over to r. Mouffetard for lunch when in Paris.
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This is a safe area! I walked around with my girlfriend at night and never felt threatened. Go down to the St.Michel metro area and plaza- there are plenty of people walking around and eating. There is a nightclub on the left side if you are facing the statue/fountain that had a line extending down the street. Lots of places to eat in this area.
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