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Originally Posted by MightyMouseTech
I usually rent an appt in the 5th or 6th near Luxembourg Gardens. Love it.
Also, visiting Le Procope (in the 6th) gives you a nice feeling of history.
http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Restaurant...de_France.html
Supposedly the oldest restaurant in Paris, founded in 1686, so 100 years older than the USA. Napoleon used the frequent the place. The ambience is a bit better than the food. I had the coq au vin, and enjoyed it. The locals seemed to mostly order the seafood platters. |
I may try to get there at some point. I'll be honest, I mostly eat at the restaurants close to my flat. I can tell you the name of them (there're some of the few small places that I do know the name of), but I don't know what the point of that would be. There're good, quite good, but every neighborhood has equally good places.
If you were to visit me in in my little neck of the 4th, we'd go eat at the place downstairs or across the street. Maybe we'd saunter out to Montorguil and pick something there.
But if you're going to Paris and staying in the 6th and not visiting me, I'm not going to suggest you haul ass all the way over to my little one block street off of Rue Montorgueil just to eat and then turn around and head back home. It's not as though there's much else to do there. (Well, there is a nudists' club a couple blocks over.
One doesn't bump into that sort of thing too often, I guess.
And once inside, I suppose one could say there's something to see.
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More importantly, howeer, you'd pass a good three dozen or more wonderful places just getting from just about anywhere to my little area. LOL It's a little different out by
La Defense, but that's the business district. Unless one is using frequent guest hotel points, there's not much reason to stay there, or even go there, IMO, unless one happens upon a large and modern vacation rental in one of the skyscrapers.
(Sure, one might go see the Grand Arch and take in the view from the top of it, even look at the skyscrapers while your up there. But after that what else does a tourist need to do out there? Personally, I don't think the Grand Arch needs to rate high on a visitor's list of places to get to first.)
Once in a while (a couple times a year at most) I'll go to one of the
"ooh la la" world renowned places, but there again, nobody needs me to tell them about those places.
All the best.