Restaurants - Paris e-guide: The Travel Guide with its Own Website - page 27

Centre

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La Tour d'Argent fine food with a view
15-17 quai de la Tournelle, 5ème • 01 43 54 23 31
www.tourdargent.com Closed Mon & Tue lunch
Views don't get much more Parisian than this, and
the cuisine doesn't get more ageless: the restaurant
has been serving the same pressed-duck recipe since
1890. It's kid-glove treatment all the way, but you
don't have to blow the budget. The lunch menu is
great value and the view's the same. Expensive

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Restaurant Marty Art Deco dining
20 avenue des Gobelins, 5ème • 01 43 31 39 51
www.marty-restaurant.com Open lunch & dinner daily
The Marty stands out among Parisian brasseries on
two counts: it is independent, and chef Thierry Colas
has an haute cuisine pedigree. As a result, the food
goes beyond brasserie classics. Try salmon sautéed
with grapes and served with a celeriac purée, or veal
with herb butter and violet mustard. Moderate

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Le Pré Verre a modern twist on the classic
8 rue Thénard, 5ème • 01 43 54 59 47
Open lunch & dinner Tue-Sat, dinner only Mon
The Delacourcelle brothers do French classics with a
nod to the modern. Chef Philippe is a fan of herbs and
spices, and it shows in his pairing of rabbit with
cumin, adding ginger to shallot sauce, showering
squid with sesame vinaigrette or popping parsley in
the strawberry dessert. The cuisine is slightly fusion,
but with an emphasis on good, sustaining food (such
as mashed potato with foie gras). Perched on a corner
in the scholarly Quartier Latin, this bistrot à vins is
very much a neighbourhood favourite, attracting
cooing couples, conversing academics, serious suits
and curious visitors. It's casual and friendly, with a
wooden floor and walls dotted with vintage jazz LPs.
Très cool - especially in summer, when the doors are
flung back and the tables spill on to the street. The
wine list is worthy, and the lunch menu is a bargain.
Moderate