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Here's another restaurant I've been dying to try for years! It's a real budget find with plats du jour running between 11-14€. Of course, the plats du jour have only 1 choice per day:
Monday - Boudin 11€ (Blood Sausage)
Tuesday - Hachis Parmentier 11€ (Shepherd's Pie)
Wednesday - Petit Salé aux Lentilles 12€
Thursday - Boeuf Mironton 12€
Friday - Hachis Parmentier 11€
Saturday - Langue de Boeuf piquante (Beef Tongue)
Sunday - Souris d'Agneau confite
If you find having only one choice stifling, they also have set menus at 22€ & 32€.
Reportedly, this was André Gide's (famous French writer) favorite restaurant, it also boasts such clientele as Kerouac, James Joyce, Hemingway, Paul Valery & Antonin Artaud. Of course, being a Beatchick I'm very much interested in this restaurant's association with Jack Kerouac!
Be warned, this restaurant holds one of those famous historic Turkish squat toilettes - hope your thigh muscles are strong!!
This past trip (Nov '07) I'd made plans to join up with some friends for dinner here. Alas, the transit strike prevented our meeting.
Favorite Dish: I'm dying to try the Hachis Parmentier and the Boeuf Mironton. My dear, departed friend, Sandye, loved this place and said they're supposed to have THE BEST Tarte Tatin in Paris; she was forever regaling me with her memories of the Crème de Potiron (pumpkin soup). Mmmm.
Photos: February 2006 & Christmas 2002 (credit: Sandye Utley)
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: 41, rue Monsieur-le-Prince, 75006 Paris
Phone: 01 43 26 95 34
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Polidor is typical old French restaurant. Don't be mislead by what is written on their front : it is a restaurant and not a "crémerie" ! At the back of the main dining room, they have a cupboard with brass labels were regular dinners used to put their table cloth, kept for each of them. You will not have your own table : they fill all tables with customers as they arrive. The cooking is good. I recommand the"blanquette de veau" (veal simmered in a lemon sprinkled white sauce)
They do not have a web site but this site will give you the opinion of customers and this one on the history of this restaurant.
February 2007: Thank you Mary (VT BeatChick) for giving me the link with the new website of Restaurant Polidor
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: 41 rue Monsieur-le-Prince 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 (1) 43-26-95-34
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Arrive early to this Paris institution, as this place fills up quite fast for lunch. The main room seats about 80 people. This was my third visit to Polidor and although the food was good, their prices have gone up quite a bit and it's not longer the bargain it used to be. Still, it's a great dining experience.
Favorite Dish: I had their house terrine, which was quite delicious (4.50€) followed by chicken in a cream sauce and white rice (13€).
Written Sep 19, 2007
Address: 41 rue Monsieur-le-Prince 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 (1) 43-26-95-34
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Great basic food. Nothing too fancy, basically a neighborhood joint. I have eaten alone there on many occasions, and made great friends with some people I met on Thanksgiving a few years ago. Long style tables, so you always end up talking to someone.
James Joyce ate here. Regulars have their own cloth napkins in the funny numbered drawers on the back wall.
Favorite Dish: Boeuf bourguignon & get the cassis sponge cake for dessert.
Updated Sep 7, 2002
I went to Polidor to experience the setting of Rimbaud/Verlaine and Hemingway. The food was good as well but I totally enjoyed seeing Hemingway in the restaurant in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris"!
Written Jun 17, 2011
Address: 41 rue Monsieur-le-Prince 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 (1) 43-26-95-34
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This restaurant is written up in most American guidebooks as is serves french food at reasonable prices.
Joyce, Hemingway, and Kerouac have frequented at this establishment.
Written Nov 25, 2003
Address: 41 rue Monsieur-le-Prince 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 (1) 43-26-95-34
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