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Title: Eating and Drinking in Paris: French Menu Reader and Restaurant Guide (The What Kind of Food Am I? series) by Andy Herbach, Michael Dillon ISBN: 1-892975-47-5 Publisher: Open Road Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This book was handy to have.
Comment: I would not call this book a must have for traveling to Paris but it was a handy reference guide to find out what something was on a menu. It did save me from at least one mistake in ordering something I would not have wanted to eat! On the other hand, I felt that it was a little high-brow in that the least expensive restaurants were listed as below $25 and, call me cheap, but that is not necessarily budget dining for my family. We found that drinks were often the most expensive part of our meal and this book does not touch on that at all. I used Rick Steves' Paris 2003 book much more often than I used this one. Get both if you can afford it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Recommend with Reservations
Comment: 76 of the 123 pages are menu translations, French to English, and the vice versa so you can ask for what you want or translate what they have; all this very helpful and in a light, compact easy to carry book that makes it worth taking. The "Ten Simple Rules of Dining in Paris" in the begining along with the introduction comments are very good, they will serve you well to help make eating in Paris less stress free. The 25 pages of eating place recommendations is of less use, considering how many there are in Paris this is a very small sample. Near the Sacre-Coeur their recommeded cafe turned out to be a shabby affair with curious looking characters hunched over their rundown tables, which sat directly accross from a more relaxed less rundown place that we felt more comfortable eating at, which had fine food. You have to decide for yourself.
The book is worth taking with you. Paris is thick with places to eat, making it easier to just duck in anywhere with this wonderful little guide to manners and translation. Don't rely too much on the recommendations as the only places to eat at. It would have been nice if they had included a few paragraphs about the different types of wine.
Rating: 5
Summary: Try lunch instead of dinner
Comment: This is the third time that I used this book while on vacation in Paris. I actually used the previous edition on my last two trips in 2000, and used this edition for my most recent trip in September 2001. The book is worth the money!
When I got to Paris, I made my way to some of my favorite restaurants and obviously started using the menus. This time, it was much easier to understand the selections. I remembered the definitions of a lot of the menu items from the previous two trips (using the book) and so understanding the menus and ordering the food was relatively painless this time. Yes, I actually improved my French vocabulary by using the book during my last two visits! The book is not exhaustive; however, I would say that at least 75% to 80% of the words on most restaurant menus are listed and defined.
I was so happy about my success with the menus that I decided to give some of the restaurant tips in the front of the book a try (pages 19-51). Now you have to understand that I never visit restaurants listed in guidebooks - EVER! I think that we tried three of the restaurants that were listed in the book and we really liked them. There weren't a lot of tourists in these restaurants and the food was pretty good.
I would like to make a comment about the best restaurants in Paris (page 29). Yes, it is very difficult to get a dinner reservation at these places -- I usually call about one month in advance. However, I almost always can get a lunch reservation at one of these restaurants without much difficulty. If you are dying to have dinner at a specific restaurant and you can't get a reservation, then try to have lunch there instead. I planned our last trip at the last minute and so I was not able to call restaurants ahead of time from the USA. When I arrived in Paris, I tried to call for dinner reservations and got the usual "complets" (full) on the other end of the line. Then I called and got a lunch reservation at L'Ambroisie with no problem! We waltzed in at about 1:00 pm, sat at a great table in a beautiful room and had a wonderful three-hour French lunch. The restaurant said that the lunch and dinner menus were the same (on that day) and so I did not feel that we had a lesser dining experience. This was confirmed when we were presented with the $300 check for lunch for two at the current exchange rate of 7FF/$1!
I highly recommend the book. It will save you a lot of time and trouble while using French menus. Also, you can try the restaurant recommendations and still feel as if you had an authentic French dining experience! I would also recommend their guidebook for Spanish-speaking countries.
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Title: Walking Paris : Thirty Original Walks In and Around Paris by Gilles Desmons ISBN: 0844201413 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch ISBN: 0140469621 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' French Phrase Book & Dictionary by Rick Steves ISBN: 1562614762 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' Paris 2003 by Rick Steves, Steve Smith, Gene Openshaw ISBN: 1566914566 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1902 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Streetwise Paris by Michael Brown, Streetwise Maps ISBN: 0935039252 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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