Music & Food

[VivreManger]

Planning a trip for next month, I have come across a series of exceptional concerts. For example on the same evening I have the amusing choice of

HAYDN - LA CREATION

EGLISE SAINT-SULPICE

33, rue Saint-Sulpice

75006 PARIS

or

TELEMANN : DES TAG DES GERICHTS (LE JUGEMENT DERNIER) The Last Judgment

THEATRE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES

15, avenue Montaigne

75008 PARIS

Unfortunately the concerts begin respectively at 8:30 and 8. Neither start gives much of a chance to have a good meal, since the best good value restos don't start serving until about 7 at the earliest and quit around 10:30 or 11.

Assuming the concerts last about 2 to 2 1/2 hours, that does not give much time to get to a la Biche au Bois, 45, avenue Ledru Rollin 12 ème near the Gare de Lyon for example.

I am not a fan of Bofingers and the rest of that chain which is open late.

Any suggestions on good, non-chain, places, that would be serving something good around 6:30 in either of those respective neighborhoods or around 10:30 - 11:00 closer to the Marais-Beaubourg area where I will be staying? And I don't mean l'as du falafel.

[Simon_S]

What about Yves Camdeborde's place at le Comptoir? I haven't eaten there myself, but it's been well-reviewed here in the past, and is only a veritable stone's throw from St. Sulpice.

Si

[VivreManger]

I am considering Le Comptoire. The only difficulty is that it is famously difficult to get reservations, though at 23:15 or so, it may be possible

[Simon_S]

Some friends managed to eat there after an organ recital last summer, and they just turned up without reservatiosn. It was, however, the night of the World Cup Final...

Si

[John Talbott]

Around St Sulpice and not far from Le Comptoir also is La Cremerie/Les Caves Miard, 9, rue des Quatre-Vents in the 6th, 01.43.54.99.30, closed Sundays and Mondays, open 10 AM - 10 PM, which while small, serves great charcuterie and wine and thus you could be in and out before the concert.

Near the Theatre C-E, I've eaten before a concert at the Grand Corona, 3, Place de l'Alma, 01 47 20 70 27 open from 11:30 AM to midnight nonstop. A review in RestoaParis says you can get in and out in 40 minutes (my experience too) and to recall another thread, they have horsemeat and fries.

[John Talbott]

Around St Sulpice and not far from Le Comptoir also is La Cremerie/Les Caves Miard, 9, rue des Quatre-Vents in the 6th, 01.43.54.99.30,

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Update: according to Jerome Berger in A Nous Paris, La Cremerie, is now open for only lunch and dinner and still closed Sundays and Mondays, a la carte about 30 €, but has been taken over by a couple of young architects and it sounds like quite successfully, adding {to my memory anyway} more dishes and desserts to the charcuterie, but fewer glasses of wine.