u/EdgeDancinOnMyOwn

Will be in Paris in June, and trying to pick from the following seafood restaurants. Interested in Bouillabaisse, though if certain options lack it but are clearly better can forgo.

La Méditerranée - has Bouillabaisse

Huguette, Bistro de la mer - doesn’t have Bouillabaisse but might have a rockfish soup?

Clamato - sounds great, no Bouillabaisse but I am already eating at Septime so maybe better to branch out even though they are obviously different

Le Dôme - has Bouillabaisse for two.

If anyone has tried any of these and has advice, would appreciate it!

Hello everyone! I’m going to Paris with my husband for the first time in June to celebrate a milestone birthday. We are big food people and tend to plan our vacations around food. We will have 7 nights in the city including our arrival day on which we get in early afternoon.

We got very lucky with reservations. Before scoring our more coveted ones I booked Les Enfants Rouge based on reviews and the food looking good and the fact that it actually is open on Sundays. Love the Japanese French vibe, and the current menu looks right up our alley. Since then, we’ve gotten a lunch reservation for Arpege, Septime, Mokonuts, and Table Bruno Verjus.

We definitely wanna try some good French pastry and bakeries, have chocolate mouse at chapon, eat crêpes at Little Breizh Café, get a ham and butter on baguette sandwhich.

My question is, for people who have been to any of these restaurants, is it worth keeping the les enfants rouge reservation versus having more flexibility to wander into random places? None of what we have booked are really classic French where we can get escargot or cassoulet or beef bourguignon. We definitely want to have some of these at our meals, but at the same time, fresh and seasonal and heavy on vegetables is more what we want to eat daily than heavier classic French fair. As is, we only would have 2 unscheduled food days left, so debating dropping Les Enfants Rouge to have one more day for spontaneity (or reservations required to book a more classic French place in its stead).

Thank you!