We enjoyed a little rest time in our hotel room and we then about two blocks down Rue Bergere to Rue Montmatre at the Bouillon Chartier restaurant for dinner. This was an old fashioned traditional French cuisine. We had a wonderful dinner and bottle of rose.We had a great endive and avocado salad with Roquefort dressing. Beef stew, pot roast and vegetables, pork roast and small potatoes. The food was amazing. For desert we had cream-puffs filled with vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and Baba au Rum. Wow! It was all very good and very reasonable.
The inside of the restaurant was very traditional and beautiful. We enjoyed every moment we were there. We had really wanted to go to a French restaurant with a long tradition. Bouillion Chartier was founded in 1894 and was designed to look like a railway station concourse. The wait staff all dress in traditional rondin black waistcoats with long white aprons with multiple pockets.Tables are shared with strangers and we had a couple sitting near us. They left before us and there was some rose left in their craft bottle. The waiter took their unused wine from the craft and poured it into a glass for us.
Our dinner items were written on our place mat and then added up at the end of the meal which is also a tradition at this restaurant.On our way back to the hotel we stopped at the Bistrot de la Banque for a drink. I had a Belgium Leffe Blonde ale.
Bistrot de la Banque
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