So we stopped for lunch at Cuisine du Bar. We ate here on our last visit. We saw it on a show by Ina Garten. She focused on both the Poilane Bakery and this little restaurant. While the bakery is mentioned on a lot of websites and guidebooks, you really would need someone to tell you about this little restaurant.
The atmosphere is nothing to speak of, in fact if you are looking for French charm, this is not the place (although the street itself is very nice). But if you are looking for a delicious, simple meal, this really hits the spot. It is really an ingenious idea. They only have a couple of toasters to prepare the meals. (This picture shows the whole operation, there is no kitchen.)
They get their bread from the bakery next door (they may be co-owned). They may have a total of twenty ingredients for their whole menu. Bean got tomato and mozzarella, while I got roasted chicken with mayo (underneath the chicken) and capers. The capers worked perfectly with the sandwich, which, surprisingly to me, was served cold on toasted bread.
After lunch Bean went next door to buy Butter cookies. The bakery knows what they do well, they do not deviate far. They have a few pastries, but really specialize in Sourdough bread (very large loaves) and butter cookies in a few different shapes. They provide the spoon shaped butter cookies that we have had with our coffee in a few restaurants.
From here we walked to the Louvre, an easy walk. One of us will blog about this later - right now we are going to walk to see the Bastille Day parade.
I'll include our walk here, you can see how walkable the city is. (A) is our apartment, (B) are the Catacombs, (C) is Cuisine du Bar and Poilane Bakery, (D) is the Louvre.
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