Mmm a taste of Paris!

I have to say, the last two trips I've had to Paris, I've loved the city but not so much its food (with a couple of notable exceptions). This time around, we hit the mark every single time ..

Starting with Chez Clement on Champs Elysees on Friday night. Serving food til 1am, it was a winner for 7 weary travellers who arrived on the Eurostar at 11pm. It may be a chain, but the food is damn fine - yummm for its duck a l'orange, and anywhere that has serving of profiteroles described as "as many as you can eat" is just plain dangerous!

Even the food at Disneyland wasn't bad (how cute is a mickey mouse shaped brioche!) but the shining star on Sat was World Place. Just off the Champs Elysees on Rue Beaujon. I don't understand why Johnny Depp renamed it from Mandalay Ray, which is a far cooler name, but the food was divine .. at least the tuna tartare and trio of seafood were great (I did hear from my friends that the lamb should never be ordered there again!) The setting is oh-so-sexy and the restaurant transforms into a club after hours, we had DJ Laurent C and he managed to keep us on the dancefloor til 3am despite having walked around Eurodisney for a solid 9 hours that day!

Laduree was a fab start to Sunday for brunch (aka hot chocolate and macaroons .. mm for their seasonal rouge diva!) before wandering around the streets with a crepe in hand trying to get to the Pompidou but failing due to all the stores along the way (and the massively ridiculous queue to get in bc museums are free on the first Sunday in Paris). Sunday dinner was ear-marked for pho, we'd heard that Viet food was good, and it certainly isn't a lie. A bit difficult to get to at Porte D'Ivry, but the place we found at 34 Rue Nationale did some decent pho which was a lovely end to an awesome trip (I am not sure it is as good as Song Que on Old Street, but it's still good :)

PS This is not food related, but anyone who has stayed as a Sotifel will have to agree with me that the beds are the best in the world. Ever.