Café de France opens its doors to the Place d’Italie down in the 13eme. Place d’Italie is a traffic circle, which means if you sit outside it can be quite noisy. However, it’s also a convergence of three metro lines and a shopping mall appropriately named Centre Commercial Italie…so it’s noisy, but with an entertaining pedestrian landscape.
Café de France (13eme)
August 8th, 2008 · Written by Christian · No Comments · Drink, The Challenge
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Batofar (13eme)
August 3rd, 2008 · Written by Dan · No Comments · Dan's Favorites, Drink, The Challenge
The first time I came to Batofar was for a concert. I didn’t know anything about the venue, and in a rush I scanned through their website just long enough to find the address. I googled it, saw it was across from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and think about it. As I biked over, I realized that the BnF faces the water. It turns out that Batofar is a boat (bateau…duh) that hosts concerts and DJs.
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Le Bambou (13eme)
June 15th, 2008 · Written by Dan · No Comments · Cheap, Dan's Favorites, Eat, The Challenge
The only thing I enjoyed more than the fantastic pho at Le Bambou was watching Christian’s utter confusion as he tried to figure out how the hell he was supposed to eat his appetizer. Just to be clear, that’s in no way to the detriment of my giant steaming bowl of beef noodle soup, which was on par with the best I had in Hanoi. Christian is a novice at Vietnamese cuisine, so naturally I offered no helpful hints, preferring to watch him fumble miserably with his paper-thin spring roll wrappers.
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