Wednesday, November 17, 2021

La Fontaine De Mars, a true Paris Bistro - nothing every changes and that's the way it should be!


 I never recommend restaurants in France, because my eating habits and likes are so far different than most people, but today I'm feeling a bit sentimental, so I'l talk about one of my favorite true Paris bistros - La Fontaine de Mars in the seventh Arrorndissement. 

Ever since I first visited this bistro over 50 years ago, its has become my go to place when ever I'm in Paris ( which is very often). A deluxe Bistro all with dark paneling and soft lights, pretty gingham tablecloths, napkins the size of sheets and the sort of easy bonhomie that is earned, not bought.

Like the other favorite, true Bistros throughout the city, I adore these great Parisian bistros. Reliable, never-changing, honed by years of doing the same thing, just right. No high art or named chefs, no smears, hype or hyperbole. Stars may rise and fall, but the beauty of these bourgeois food-serving French bistros, in Paris and beyond, will never cease to shine!






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