Paris 2013 - Dinner at Les Fontaines St Honore

Our first dinner in Paris was at a bistro called Les Fontaines St Honore. It was a great sounding name - and the restaurant is very near The Louvre, so our expectations were high. However this being one of the included tour dinners - we should have kept our expectations in check.

The restaurant has very traditional decor with dark wood panels and even old street lamps. While waiting for the meal to arrive we were kept entertained by a waiter who looked like he could have come out from a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.

The appetizer was a puff pastry filled with cream cheese. It was quite nice but very simple.

The main course was a stuffed chicken breast served with buttered rice. It was tender but a bit bland in terms of flavours.
 

I forgot to get a picture of the dessert - but I think it was a creme brulee. Not a very memorable one.

Though our first dinner in Paris was not a great one - the city itself more than made up for it. It is difficult to feel down when you are in Paris - unless you live there I guess!