Recommend me a restaurant in Paris for OH 30th
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G'day PH Foodsters,
I want to take my girlfriend somewhere amazing for her 30th Birthday, i've already secretly booked the day off work for her, its a friday at the end of the month, and we're going to Paris.
I was thinking a tasting menu from a 1 star restaurant, but I have a strange requirement, she doesn't eat fish (but loves meat, everything else). Also it might end up slightly too pricy. I was hoping to spend ~£200 for the meal including drinks.
So on that note, does anyone have any recommendations for this?
I want to take my girlfriend somewhere amazing for her 30th Birthday, i've already secretly booked the day off work for her, its a friday at the end of the month, and we're going to Paris.
I was thinking a tasting menu from a 1 star restaurant, but I have a strange requirement, she doesn't eat fish (but loves meat, everything else). Also it might end up slightly too pricy. I was hoping to spend ~£200 for the meal including drinks.
So on that note, does anyone have any recommendations for this?
You might struggle to get dinner for 2 in a Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris all-in for £200. I went a couple of years ago and was gobsmacked by how pricey starred places there are. Think London prices and then double them. I found places with €80 starters...
Lunch is a different matter and you can usually get some good deals.
Lunch is a different matter and you can usually get some good deals.
Les Ombres, proper romantic setting-flew my GF out there for dinner & she's now the wife 
Having said that, that might not be a selling point but I digress.....
Translates as "the shadows" & each table is solely lit by one small light, the reason being it's a glass restaurant on the roof of a museum next to the Eiffel Tower so that you literally eat right at the corner of it, looking over & up at the tower.
At night it's spectacular & iirc they had a specials menu with X amount of courses for €X, wasn't that expensive.
We thought it was great anyway

Having said that, that might not be a selling point but I digress.....
Translates as "the shadows" & each table is solely lit by one small light, the reason being it's a glass restaurant on the roof of a museum next to the Eiffel Tower so that you literally eat right at the corner of it, looking over & up at the tower.
At night it's spectacular & iirc they had a specials menu with X amount of courses for €X, wasn't that expensive.
We thought it was great anyway
As others have said you'll struggle price-wise for the highly rated places - Alain Ducasse has priced things higher & higher...
The bar at the Montparnasse tower is pretty neat as you get great views of the Eiffel Tower & other sights - so has potential as wow-factor.
There were some recent reviews in the gruaniad:
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/may/06/top-...
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/feb/05/top-...
The bar at the Montparnasse tower is pretty neat as you get great views of the Eiffel Tower & other sights - so has potential as wow-factor.
There were some recent reviews in the gruaniad:
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/may/06/top-...
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/feb/05/top-...
The food is very good, but the view is spectacular...
http://www.restaurants-toureiffel.com/UK/EIFFEL-TO...
http://www.restaurants-toureiffel.com/UK/EIFFEL-TO...
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