Thursday night dinner!

Fortunately, it was only 4-5 minute walk to return to the hotel, and we are now cozily ensconced in our lovely – and warm – room. I am SOOOOO missing my winter coat; I was so cold in the restaurant that I put on Robert’s coat – which is MUCH warmer than mine! Hmmmm…might have to do something about that! I was wondering if it might be possible for Jay to box it up in a U.S. Post Office “If It Fits, It Ships” box, but wondered how long that would take to get to me, and if it would be worth the price…R says I should buy a new coat, but that would definitely be overkill. Kicking myself all the way to Lyon, Carnac and back to Paris over not bringing it in the first place! Oh well, I think I can always put it down to lack of travel practice, which is certainly true!

Almost our last full day in Paris!

Clearly, I did not plan enough time for Paris! We have been able to revisit some old familiar places, but honestly, there is SO much to see and do in Paris, that I should have scheduled at least a week here! Oh well! We’ll just have to come back – which I hope we can do, fairly quickly!

Thursday night dinner –

Wine and Popcorn!

We asked the attendant at the hotel for a recommendation for tonight’s dinner. He suggested Le Port du Salut, which I actually had seen many times in the past, but never visited. Well, that was indeed a mistake!

We headed out about 6 pm to have a glass of wine before dinner. [Also need to mention that we first stopped at our old Huit a Huit (translates to “8-to-8”, the local version of “7-11”), which is now a Carrefour Express to get some water for our room.]

Our reservations at Salut were for 6:40 pm, so we first went to Gay Lussac and had a nice pre-dinner interlude with two glasses of Bordeaux, while also enjoying their home-made olives and veggies as well as a portion of excellent popcorn! Who knew?!

Starter of Salmon and avocado

From there, we headed back up-hill to Salut where we were seated in the ground-floor room right next to the piano! The menu looked really good, but they had a special for two people for 60€ – Grilled steak (1 kilo!) with potatoes Dauphanoise, as well as arugula dressed in a mustard vinaigrette. Sounded too good to resist – and it was fabulous!

Yes, that is a lot of food!

R's mango/strawberry cheesecake

We both ate our fill – and it came with a great cheese sauce for the steak. Really a great dinner, served with an excellent bottle of red wine from Bordeaux. For dessert, which of course we didn’t need, R had a mango cheesecake with strawberries, which was fabulous, and I had profiteroles with hot chocolate – also wonderful! Yum!