Good to know. Thinking of this when I accompany wife as she shopped.
for actual restaurants i am sure it is just down to your contacts. i have had free corkage at several high level michelin spots but it was all on account of the company i was with!
Thanks m-ristev. Ramon - it is actually awesome, as sometimes there are GREAT deals in that rare/special cave. (Not a lot, but some great ones…). The only issue is the resto has become tres chic among the Parisians, so the timing (during the day) to get in there is relevant. But the food is good, and I’ve knocked out some exquisite bottles from that Room/Cave…
I love Chartreuse Day and have been to four. The new shop at Odeon told me that it has moved from Oct at Caves Bossetti to May at the shop. We come in the fall.
I did celebrate our last night in Paris with ancient Chartreuse at Les Arlots. Last night.
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Mark - That’s great! Maybe you need to make a quick little “planning” trip in May for your visit in the Fall. BTW, have you been to the bar at that new Chartreuse store/Odeon/Blvd Saint Germain? Is it any good at all?
Just a couple of days ago, I was looking up at that restaurant from the wine cave as I wait for wife to finish having bought Bordier butters shrink-wrapped.
Very good; I think it’s clearly still worth-it to mule it back to the US even though the price @ LGE has risen - and don’t forget whenever you spend 100E+ in 3 days at Bon Marche/Grande Epicerie (on anything incl wine) they’ll detaxe it for you right in the store saving you another 14%. (& the new detaxe automatic machines @ CDG rarely if ever now give you the “You must see the Agent” sign, viz., require your goods to be shown.)
Your comment had me curious, so I made a little trip over to Grand Epicerie to check that cave - and couldn’t resist a Vincent Dauvissat Le Foret 2018 @ 75E. (A few are still there.) And I also notice they now have also added their newly re-built & re-created seafood spot on the main floor (La Maree Rive Gauche) to the places where you can do the 10E corkage for all their bottles, FWIW.
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Ugh. Am in Paris mid-October… but staying in the culinary wasteland that is La Defense. Have resos for 1 at Au Passage on the 19th and will show up bright and early with the Platinum card on Sunday for Les Enfants du Marche (assuming their plates are still priced in the stratosphere), but the rest of the time will be spent with colleagues out in the middle of nowhere.
Thumbs up!
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Vive le pouce!
The restaurant scene is pretty sad there. A couple of acceptable lunch spots but nothing compared to the arrondisements. I do like Puteaux and Suresnes for ethnic but you’re less than a 20 minute Metro ride from better options.
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Kind of puts a new spin on the expression manger sur la pouce 
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You’ll be a quick Metro ride to En Bas, at 85 Avenue des Ternes. Very good food and great wine selection (you have to go downstairs and select your own bottle, ergo the name). One of the French Bastards is also right by En Bas, fantastic bread and pastries.
Good luck!
The French Bastards do good work. They’ve really expanded rapidly. Apparently good businessmen as well as talented bakers.
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i took a stroll by and most of the main proteins on the little daily specials board were 40+ euro
Don’t stay in La Défense, just take metro line 1 and within 15 minutes you have dozens of options…
As for corkage fee, it’s indeed pretty difficult to find good places that propose or accept it. There was one website that tracked such restaurants, offering different models (fixed fee, 2 bottles allowed if the 4 patrons have the 3 course menu, …), but it went down after some buzz initially.
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Am super familiar with the area; check out my “Adventures in Paris” thread under travel some time (lived in the 16th, just down from Radio France for several years).
Challenge is that I have to be onsite for an event at 6AM for several of those days, and I’ve got colleagues staying in the same hotel. Too much of a hassle to stay at my usual haunts.
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To be fair, perhaps by “stay” he wasn’t referring to where you lay your head, but rather an admonition not to remain in that area come mealtime?
Good to know and definitely worth considering, i.e. the detaxe service. Given food products that wife purchases at every visit and I can tack on a few bottles for hotel-room drinking and carry home, 100E is easily achievable in 3 straight days.
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Grabbed a Sandwich Parisien (Jambon de Paris, Beurre, add Cornichon if not already incl) to go/pour emporter @ La Petite Vendome. Nothing like the French truly being French. (Couldn’t resist a pic of the butter as she made it). 6.50E
The Parisien (well made, w/ great bread) has to be a contender for the greatest sandwich in the world. (Rivalled perhaps only by a Club Sandwich @ the Beach Club in LA/Santa Monica/other well-made American club sandwiches.). And 6.50E is not the normal price (it’s the fancy price) - 4.50E is normal. Petite Vendome was very good, but I think it is equalled by both the one @ Brasserie St Lazare (6E) and the one at Boulangerie Brettau Sebastien (4.50E). (And RIP Caractere du Cochon - 12.50E & all instagram all the time. Good sandwich, but now they even try & upsell you out of what a Sandwich Parisien actually is … very sad.)
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Thank you for the tip. Planning for this sandwich to be my first meal when I land on Sunday 
Where is Brasserie St Lazare - is that inside Gare du Nord? Doesn’t seem like it, but having trouble finding another reference.
If @theocorrel is referring to the Brasserie Lazare, it is located in the Gare Saint-Lazare (near the Place de l’Europe, where the “city name” streets–Liege, Londres, Madrid, etc–converge). I have not had the Lazare Parisien (or any other Parisien, for that matter) because while I cook with butter I do not eat butter on bread. But I can vouch for the Lazare saucisse-puree (my kind of comfort food) and their signature souffle-ish dessert “Paris-Deauville”, named after the train route. 