The restaurant Au 105 offers moroccan cuisine specializing in couscous entrées, with a choice of meats between steak, chicken, lamb kebob, and others. This meal was filling and satisfying, with free refills for the couscous plate! Here we also tried moroccan wine and were offered a digestif courtesy of the house.
Angelina is a tea house located near the Louvre. You can eat a meal here, but it is most famous for its chocolate. They serve incredible hot chocolate which is more like thick melted chocolate bars than hot chocolate you would drink in the U.S. It is served with lots of cream and of course a glass of water to help wash it down. Mmmm delicious.
Cafe Beaubourg
43 Rue St. Merri 4th Arr.
We dined here right before our visit to the Centre Pompidou since it is right next to it. It was a very modern and chic café with interesting interior design. There was a lot of variety in the menu. We tried the club sandwich, bass with parmesian, and smoothies. For desert we ate fruit tart, mango sorbet, chocolate cake, and profiteroles, which are vanilla ice cream topped with a cookie layer on top and bottom and drizzled with lots of chocolate.
Diner-Croisiere: Bateaux Parisiens
The night before we were to depart for Boston, the seven of us, joined by Professor Turk and the new friends we had made during our visit, including our guides Emilie and the de la Rivières, went on a three-hour diner-boat cruise along the Seine. It was a beautiful night as we dined and enjoyed the views of some of the sights we had recently visited, including the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum. Dinner was delicious; some of the dishes on the menu that night were “brochettes de coquilles St. Jacques” (scallops on bamboo sticks), steak, lobster, mango tart, and chocolate cake. The dinner-cruise was the perfect end to our spectacular two-week stay in Paris – filled with amazing food, interesting sights and scenes, and wonderful new friends.
This café serves a variety of foods all day and is pleasantly situated at the foot of the Rue de Rivoli from Rue Saint-Antoine, across the street from the métro St. Paul. The service was speedy and the free wireless was definitely an additional attraction for the lively café where both young and old met to eat, drink, and pass time. Our group passed a part of the afternoon here reading up to prepare for one of our shows!