If you plan to go to Paris and want to have a quick lunch very close to the Louvre, don’t hesitate to go to La Cordonnerie. It is a very small restaurant which provides French classical cuisine in a two-room 17th C. place which could be your house. Hugo, the chef, cooks right in front of you in the kitchen his traditional dishes in one room, and in the other one, you can take place among the other customers, regulars or tourists. The ambiance is joyful; going there is a very good place to charge your batteries!
The cuisine is quite nice, the menu doesn’t offer a lot of choice, but you can be sure that everything on the carte will be simple but tasty. No fusion food here, just the most classical French dishes, well prepared and accommodated.
The products are fresh (you can see that if your table is in the “kitchen” of Hugo) and the plates are very generous. For the starters, you will have the choice between terroir products: duck terrine, andouille, foie gras; the main plate consists in excellent meat, very well cooked: beaf, veal, lamb or andouillette, accommodated with French fries or vegetables, and I strongly advise you to try the chocolate cake for desserts, one of my favorites, definitely!
To sum up, a very nice place to have a good lunch on the go. Try it with your friends!
We loved: the warm welcoming of Hugo, his helpfulness on advising or explaining the dishes and the fact that the food is brought out promptly.
Top tip: the setting, in a very tiny 17th C. place and its location, a few blocks away from the Louvre, the Tuileries Gardens and the Concorde.
Location: 20 rue Saint-Roch, Paris 1st – 01 42 60 17 42
http://www.restaurantlacordonnerie.com
Prices: 20 – 30EUR/person a la carte.
The cuisine is quite nice, the menu doesn’t offer a lot of choice, but you can be sure that everything on the carte will be simple but tasty. No fusion food here, just the most classical French dishes, well prepared and accommodated.
The products are fresh (you can see that if your table is in the “kitchen” of Hugo) and the plates are very generous. For the starters, you will have the choice between terroir products: duck terrine, andouille, foie gras; the main plate consists in excellent meat, very well cooked: beaf, veal, lamb or andouillette, accommodated with French fries or vegetables, and I strongly advise you to try the chocolate cake for desserts, one of my favorites, definitely!
To sum up, a very nice place to have a good lunch on the go. Try it with your friends!
We loved: the warm welcoming of Hugo, his helpfulness on advising or explaining the dishes and the fact that the food is brought out promptly.
Top tip: the setting, in a very tiny 17th C. place and its location, a few blocks away from the Louvre, the Tuileries Gardens and the Concorde.
Location: 20 rue Saint-Roch, Paris 1st – 01 42 60 17 42
http://www.restaurantlacordonnerie.com
Prices: 20 – 30EUR/person a la carte.
