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Speaking of Hay in food, there is one restaurant in New York, Papillon, that had a dish with hay...

I would forget about booking online, get a good guidebook or a few, and send a fax (even in English is ok) or call them... most will speak some English.

Next time in Paris, she should stick with "Wooloomooloo" and "The Outback", two highly reccommended gastronomic establishments!

I will never again cut a cucumber naked

Of course- and especially when I try it!

Won't be open for another week or two...

Forget "Ma Bourgogne" in the place des Vosges... don't ask why, but forget it.. perhaps the worst experience I ever had in a restaurant (except for the food-poisoning one)

After less than two years here in Paris, they went bankrupt...

Yeah, but the two-hour waits at Space Mountain sort of break the magic spell... Speaking of food-it sucks. I'd stick with Annette's Diner or the McDonalds in Disney Village...

They're great... can be bought in virtually any French supermarket.... shall I send you some ?

I like the Indian cuisine-flavored ones..

The Grand Vefour is great. Unbelievable foie gras ravioli! Also the Cinq is excellent, but will probably not have a terrace...although they might decide to change this soon...Laurent and Pre Catelan and Grande Cascade have great terraces...Laurent being the only centrally located one, as the other two are in the Bois de Boulogne...

The food is terrible. The highlight is probably "Annettes" who has good burgers and shakes. Otherwise, there is the Rainforrest Cafe and Planet Hollywood. Avoid all restaurants in the park as they are disgusting. The Disneyland Hotel is the best, and most expensive hotel in the resort, and their lounge bar has some pretty good club sandwiches and fruit cocktails...

After leaving her eponymous restaurant, now the "16 sur 16", she went to Japan to "consult".. But now, who knows?

How will you be able to eat all of that rich food? Are you staying a month?

I'll see what I can dig up.... I have never seen this variety of couscous in any restaurant, and have eaten it only at friends houses... it is definitely a berber specialty..as well as being my top-favorite couscous. I forgot to mention that it is often eaten accompanied by a hard-boiled egg and onions on the side...

I live in Paris. I enjoy Kronenbourg, which is the most popular French beer, along with "33". Pelforth makes nice light and dark beers (Blonde, and Brune). Most beers are much less sweet than American beers, and have a higher alcohol content.

Although the long neck on a beer bottle slows down the delivery time, gotta love that "glug glug glug" sound, kind of like a burbling brook...

I have many Algerian Berber friends, who prepare an excellent couscous , without sauce, and cook the semoule with vegetables by slowly steaming them together in a cooker... It's divine, and also very light. In my opinion, Algerian couscous is far superior, and their cuisine has more variety and sophistication than comparable cuisines from Morocco and Tunisia. That's my opinion, but I've eaten a lot of couscous... I also love ah-rum an flat, unleavened bread, that is normally eaten with stewed hot peppers, but may be eaten with cheese, accompanying a meal, or just by itself.

That elevator to the Vu's bar in the Emirates Tower scared the shit out of me!

La Fee Verte and the other stuff is about half the original strength in alcohol (normally 45%) and has minimal and sometimes no wormwood/thujone content.

Anything for sale IN France is NOT absinthe... only anise-flavored drinks trying to cash in on another name and legend... I live in France, and go to the supermarkets every day and see this stuff on the counters. Absinthe is ILLEGAL in France, in any form, and has been for decades. Believe me. Some websites will try to sell you absinthe, but inform you very clearly that, although you may order the stuff, that as it is against the law in certain countries, it may be ceased by customs.

A quick read of the Fee Verte website does NOT tell you absinthe is available again in France. It is available in a few european countries like Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic, also in some former French island colonies... it has been banned in France since the early 20th century. There are many anise-flavored drinks the French have as aperitifs, and some claiming to be similar to absinthe...which are basically pastis, with no wormwood content whatsoever...

Most are not nearly close to the real thing. The high concentration of thujone and alcohol makes absinthe a dangerously potent drink. I hear that in the south of France the real thing exists, and I know that the drink is still produced legally in France, but only for export...

Le Vere Vole is pretty cool. I like the Canal Saint Martin area alot.