More About Paris

I just got some more pictures from Gini today by email of our time in Paris. Remember I talked about talking a picture with the CRS? Well, here it the group, making fun of their collegue, and me.

The next day we went on a guided tour of the Palais Garnier (l'Opéra). Everything is so gorgeous and so amazing, I couldn't copy enough pictures to show you. Have a look here for a good collection of photos of the inside of the palace. The tours are both in English and French. I can highly recommending taking one if you're in Paris.


Wednesday evening, we went to a very nice restaurant called Le Gaigne in the Marais. Le Gaigne doesn't mean anything, it's a play on words of the chef's name, Gagnon. It's at 12, avenue Pecquay, 4th.

 We had the gourmet menu, 5 dishes with wine. The first dish was a terrine de lapin and foie gras.

The second dish was a bowl of autumn veggies with a potimarron purée. Double yummy!

The third dish was colin (a lovely white fish like cod) on a bed of home-made macaroni and comté cheese. Triple yummy!

The main course was a Coucou (of this I kid you not) with the white meat in a corn sauce, and the dark meat in a wine sauce with topamnibours (jerusalem artichaukes). Quadruple yummy!!

 And because we were such piglets by the time dessert arrived, we forgot to take a picture of the St. Honoré of quince. Dessertly yummy!!! The photo below is of a St. Honoré dessert from Flickr. Ours looked pretty much the same with a little less cream on it and with quince inside.

Me out in front of the restaurant after the meal, making a face, as usual.

And this is the very first weekend, when Gini was here at my house. We went to Sancerre, one of my all-time favorite little towns with delicious wine.