My friend loved Paris on her visit there years ago so we decided to give Chefs de France a try on our most recent stay in Sept. She speaks conversational French but hasn't used it in years and she wasn't sure how much of it would come back to her, I assured her she would do fine.
When we checked in we were greeted by a young French CM who was a total character, I took notice to his name tag and asked how he pronounced it, he said with a sly grin, Charlotte, I gave him a puzzled look and with a laugh he told me he forgot his name tag and that's the one they gave him for use on his shift. I knew at that point this was going to be a really great experience.
I loved the atmosphere of this place, lively, bright, very upbeat and busy, but not in the overly crowded kind of busy, just jumpin'. Our server was a cute French girl from a small town outside of Paris, upon introducing herself I told her we wanted to speak mostly French and that if what we said was totally incorrect, she was more than welcome to laugh at our mistake but to correct us, she said that her English could use some help as well. For the entire meal, which by the way was fantastic, she was very attentive and took plenty of time to tell us about her hometown and ask about ours.
About half way through our meal two women were seated next to us and we introduced ourselves, well after about 3 minutes of conversation it was discovered that one of them is a DIS'er
. All in all this was one of the best all around dining experiences we've had, we will be dining there in February and other future trips.
When we checked in we were greeted by a young French CM who was a total character, I took notice to his name tag and asked how he pronounced it, he said with a sly grin, Charlotte, I gave him a puzzled look and with a laugh he told me he forgot his name tag and that's the one they gave him for use on his shift. I knew at that point this was going to be a really great experience.
I loved the atmosphere of this place, lively, bright, very upbeat and busy, but not in the overly crowded kind of busy, just jumpin'. Our server was a cute French girl from a small town outside of Paris, upon introducing herself I told her we wanted to speak mostly French and that if what we said was totally incorrect, she was more than welcome to laugh at our mistake but to correct us, she said that her English could use some help as well. For the entire meal, which by the way was fantastic, she was very attentive and took plenty of time to tell us about her hometown and ask about ours.
About half way through our meal two women were seated next to us and we introduced ourselves, well after about 3 minutes of conversation it was discovered that one of them is a DIS'er
. All in all this was one of the best all around dining experiences we've had, we will be dining there in February and other future trips.
