"Les Halles, the centuries-old central Parisian food market, was banished from the city to the suburb of Rungis in the late 1960s and early '70s, its beautiful old iron pavilions pulled down; a soulless modern shopping mall later took its place. When the first half of Les Halles was shut down and relocated in the early 70s' (the rest following soon after), the bistros of the quarter were struck hard; their livelihood depended almost exclusively on the business generated by the market community. Of those hundreds of bistros, only a few survive today,"
In the Saveur article "The Belly of Paris" (2007) Aux Tonneaux des Halles, a bistro situated just behind the church of St-Eustache on the cobbled old market street of rue Montorgueil.haricot de mouton—a bread-crumb-topped casserole of tender lamb and succulent white bean at Chez Denise sounds awfully good.
Wait, Wait, Penny! Attendez! We have to go to L'Ambassade d'Auvergne and try the country-ham smoked over a chestnut wood fire and the aligot. Did you read that the Les Halles bistros serve gargantuan portions? Can we share?
ReplyDeleteGreat blog you two! I'm really enjoying it...and wishing I could come...
ReplyDeleteNow is Amelie's restaurant on your google map? ;) I see that you have mapped out most everything else. But you guys have iphones, so that will be perfect.
Not that we can use iphones without roaming charges! However, the apartment has wifi so we can do are research there before we go out!
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