Well, during our trip to London, the Cinque Terre and Genoa, and Milan, you knew I had to include my favorite city in Europe, right? Yes, we were staying in Paris, though only for four days this time around. Since we'd been on the go during our trip so far; we just wanted to mostly hang out in Paris. This was our seventh trip to the "City of Lights".
Our flight from Milan to Paris was just briefly delayed. And we had a decent lunch on the flight.
To make things easy for us, we stayed at the Citadines Les Halles. It was easy to get to from CDG via the RER Blue Line. From there, it was just a short walk to our favorite little street in Paris, Rue Montorgueil, which I've posted on many times. And of course, we had a seat at our favorite cafe, Café du Centre to just watch time pass us by.
It was pretty late in the day for a Cafe Allonge, so the Missus had a glass of wine and I had a Kir.
My goodness, it was great to be back in Paris!
Café du Centre
57 Rue Montorgueil
75002 Paris, France
When dinner time arrived, we decided to head on over to our favorite simple little Sichuan Restaurant, Maison de Chengdu. Which we first discovered when we stayed in Paris for two weeks and our apartment was just a block away. We strolled up Rue Montorgueil…..
Then taking a right on Rue Réaumur…yes, it was kind of the long way, but we enjoyed passing all those familiar places, including the apartment we stayed in during that two week visit. A right on Rue Volta and we had arrived…..
The restaurant was pretty quiet on this evening.
Though they had a ton of food delivery orders.
This time we took a seat on the ground floor and basically ordered the same items as on our last visit. And of course, we started with a Tsingtao.
The only item that was not as good as on our previous visit was the Stir Fried Mountain Yam as it was missing the red and green bell peppers and had hardly any woodear.
The Intestine Dry Pot was nicely cooked; the intestine actually had a bit of "crunch" to it, along with a decent amount of numbing tones from the Sichuan Peppercorn.
The Green Beans had a bit more pork this time around and was stir fried nicely.
The Missus got Her Chinese food fix in. All of this came out to about 42€…..let's say $50/US, which along with the minimal tipping in France, this was a bargain.
You can read about all about our previous visits in the links.
Maison De Chengdu (古味成都)
16 Rue Volta
75003 Paris, France
We took a nice long after dinner stroll, thru all those familiar streets, doing the Flâneur thing. In Paris, it's quite easy getting your "steps" in. You just don't realize how much you walk.
It was a joy to be back in Paris!
