Fine dining on a budget in Paris? Mon dieu!

Wow! Thanks. Mike. I'm bookmarking this one for sure.

I'll be interested in hearing people's experiences. At that price restaurants usually serve industrial food and the Bouillons have a reputation of serving airplane food reheated in their kitchens. Wonder if the NYT did any research on this.

Interesting. Alexander Lobrano is a longtime writer on French food; perhaps it's the real estate that these operations have chosen that enables them to push the price down, I think a lot of us reference Central Paris eateries when it comes to comparing price. Can space rents and portion control account for the drop from the usually quoted 30-35 Euro price to get from scratch cooking in Paris? Hopefully it's not too good to be true.

Living in one of the outer arrondissements, provides me with access to many many reasonably priced restaurants that do not serve airplane food. The restaurants mentioned are not in the tourist ghetto and may be out of the comfort zone of many using this forum. However, East Paris is where it is, get used to it.

Thanks for sharing!

LOL Barbara -- one of the great pleasures of Paris is going to the bakery for the baguette in the morning and eating it with excellent French butter. We are lucky this spring in that the annual 'best baguette in Paris' award went to the bakery literally right across the street from the apartment we use. Although I'll confess I can't tell a lot of difference between various artisanal baguettes -- just don't buy the ones in grocery stores and look for 'artisanal' to get bakeries that actually make them (as opposed to baking industrial dough).