Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Dick Young’s Safe America
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • Critical Race Theory
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money

What I Learned in Paris: Part III 2013

May 20, 2013 By Richard C. Young

Last post I told you that Debbie and I would concentrate on the 6th arrondissement for your first trip to Paris or, for that matter, on most Paris trips, where you will be encamping in the historic St. Germain-des-Pres literary café district. How great for you. Historic bistros like Brasserie Lipp, Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots and Le Select are each pieces of its former bohemian history. It’s almost mandatory to while away an afternoon at a sidewalk café that is, if you can escape the cigarette smoke with a glass or two of Cotes du Rhone (rouge) or Sancerre (blanc) and watch the world parade by. Don’t go near what is usually abominable French coffee or the generally roadhouse fare that has become the norm at the chain-owned bistros.

One exceptional bistro is the Nemrod located on Rue du Cherche-Midi, one of our favorite streets on the Rive Gauche. At the “Rod”, you’ll find Salers beef, great salads, and Pommes Frits, along with all 10 of the Crus Beaujolais. I am familiar with no other bistro or high-end restaurant in America or France where you regularly find all 10 of the Crus Beaujolais. As my favorite Sommelier, Rajat Parr, writes (Read: Secrets of the Sommeliers), “A special bottling of Domaine Jean Foillard Morgon the Cuevee Corcelette comes from sandy soils, not the granite schist of the more commonly seen Morgan Cote du Py. It is a must buy if you see it on a wine list.” So the casual Nemrod is not to be missed. Debbie and I were introduced to the Nemrod by our friend David Lebovitz, who runs some of the best small group food and wine tours in France. More on David in coming posts.

Away from bistros, book all of your restaurant reservations, on line where possible, at least a month in advance. Plan to book at 8:00 or later for dinner and remember that the majority of high-end Paris restaurants are closed on Sunday and often on Saturday as well. In coming posts, I’ll be giving you loads of food and wine intelligence from not only the 6th arrondissement, but also from other Paris arrondissements that Debbie and I know well. And I would remind you of my archived What I Learned in Paris posts from the last few years. You can print out the entire series for a virtual mini-bible on visiting Paris and beyond (especially Provence and Normandy, both must visits).

In advance of my next post, I want to give you a tip on a tiny and sometimes impossible bistro to get into. Like so many of our favorites, I would book (a must) for lunch when the produce is freshest, the crowds the thinnest, and the prices the best you will find (such as that can be). Try for the table by the front window at Le Timbre. This stamp-size bistro (20 or so seats) is on a quiet side street off Blvd. Raspail, at 3 rue Sainte-Beuve (closed Sunday and Monday).

Finally, to put you in just the right Parisian frame of mind order the CD “CAFÉ DE FLORE PARIS.” Debbie and I listen to it a couple of times a week.

A bientôt,

Dick

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • What I Learned in Paris Fall 2013: Part III
  • What I Learned In Paris Spring 2013: Part I
  • What I Learned In Paris: Part II 2013
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • The Most Controversial Restaurant in Paris? - June 24, 2022
  • La Fontaine De Mars: Best Sunday Paris Lunch - June 23, 2022
  • Dick & Debbie Young’s Most Visited Paris Restaurant - June 22, 2022

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • “An Epic Struggle Over the Definition of America”
  • Florida: Enjoy Certain Freedoms and Individual Liberties
  • Are You Prepared to Run Out of Water?
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • TROJAN HORSE: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” is Critical Race Theory in Disguise
  • Joel Salatin: Meet the Real Mr. America
  • What a Way to Make a Living: New Hampshire #1
  • 751 “No-Go” Zones in France
  • Can Ginger Combat Heart Disease and Improve Circulation?
  • The Simple, Elegant Power of the Retirement Compounders

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Paris: How Hotel Lutetia Can Challenge Le Bristol Hotel?
  • Biden Running Out of People to Blame for High Gas Prices
  • RECESSION? Dow 25,000, $8 Gas, Rising Interest Rates, Spell Mid-term Crack Up
  • Here's Why the Fed Won't Raise Rates Enough
  • GOP Voters Want Republicans Who Will Actually Fight for Their Values
  • MONEY TALKS: The Best Service in Paris
  • The Lives of Others
  • Are Democrats Ditching President Biden?
  • One Surprising Thing You Should Know About Private Jets
  • 1st Time Elon Musk Votes Republican

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Survival Guy: Clearing the Decks, Buying a Boat, Seeing the World and More
  • Is the Great Job Boom Over?
  • Here’s Why You Need a 15-Year Retirement Investment Plan
  • Will ESG Do to Steel Prices What It Did to Gas Prices?
  • Kellogg Cuts Loose with Split Plan
  • Apple Shares Resilient in the Face of Recession
  • MONEY TALKS: The Best Service in Paris
  • Predictions of MEGA-SPENDING on Metaverse
  • RECESSION? Dow 25,000, $8 Gas, Rising Interest Rates, Spell Mid-term Crack Up
  • Investing During a Recession

Greetings From Paris & Le Bristol Hotel

The Most Controversial Restaurant in Paris?

Your Survival Guy: Clearing the Decks, Buying a Boat, Seeing the World and More

Russia’s “Unsubtle” Artillery Attacks Not Necessarily “Archaic”

FLORIDA DODGED A BULLET: Elected Superb DeSantis Over Unstable Gillum

Biden, a Job Killing Machine

Copyright © 2022 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives