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Signs In Paris Restaurants: There are dozens, it seems, of such publications and new ones are always appearing. I'll mention some that I have used. Art Buch-wald's Paris After Dark (Art is a prolific and knowledgeable columnist in the Paris edition of the New fork Herald Tribune) is an earthy classic. He lists about 120 restaurants of distinction but does not forget also to give us a couple of dozen "good restaurants at two dollars or less."
Of restaurant guides published in France, that of the Club des Sans-Club (Club of the Clubless) is among the best. Where to Dine in London and Paris (with street maps), by M. L. Bernhardt (The Ram's Head Press, London) is a handy booklet on gourmetry purchasable in overseas bookstores. TWA, in its excellent nearly-free booklet Travel Tips for France, has a dependable list, as long as Buchwald's, of atmospheric restaurants, including not only the famous temples of French epicurean ism, but garden restaurants for alfresco dining, seafood specialists and round-the-world restaurants of Paris for the food of all nations.
Foie gras (goose liver paste) of Alsace and bouillabaisse (a greatly glorified fish stew) of Marseille are widely known, but perhaps the most French of French fare would be the mollusks of sea and land.
Degustation dlluitres (oysters) is one of the common Signs in Paris restaurants and brasseries, and another familiar sign, though less common, is Degustation d'Escargots (snails). All varieties of the bivalve breed maintain enormous popularity, and the spiral-shelled snails of Burgundy are in high favor in the winter months, which is the season for them. |
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