IParis restaurants open in August?

[Judith Gorman]

I will be in Paris for a week in August. I have looked at the websites of my favourite spots(Chez Michel, Chez L'Ami Jean etc.) and see that they are all closed. Does anyone know of good places of a similar quality and price range that are open in August?

Lemon Tart

[John Talbott]

In a terrifically valuable “Dossier” Wednesday, July 1st, Colette Monsat and Sylvain Verut provided categories of places open all summer, as follows:

Greenside
Chalet de l’Oasis
Père Lapin
Gordon Ramsay
Le 51
Le Saut du Loup
Rosa Bonheur

Good Bistrots
La Fontaine de Mars
Cafe Constant
Zinc Caius
Père Clause
Maree Passy

Foreign
Delices d’Aphrodite
Ratn
Zyriab
Madame Shawn
Les Cailloux

Recently opened
Cru
Glou
Bar Terrasse de la Gare
Cantine Merci
Terrasse BBQ du Mama Shelter

[souphie]

You could add many good places, starting with Joséphine, La Rotonde, l'Auberge Bressane, Robuchon, Senderens, L'Arpège, Le Cinq, La Grande Cascade, Likafo, Yong, and what's that bistrot in the 11th called already?

[shoham]

are you thinking of Le Chateubriand!!

[souphie]

Nah -- a much more traditional place. I'd be surprised if le Chateaubriand was open in August, though I haven't checked.

[foodiesnorth]

Just ate at Glou. Great place, great service and great ingredients: mediocre result. Very disappointed. It was cheap though!

[John Talbott]

As I said a few month's ago in JT's Paris http://johntalbottsparis.typepad.com/... “The restaurant of the month?”
Glou, 101, rue Vieille du Temple in the 3rd, 01.42.74.44.32, closed provisionally Tuesdays, lunch formula 17 on weekdays, a la carte 25-48 €, has received rave reviews and been called “The restaurant of the month?” Four of us went on a Sunday and so I have witnesses to the fact that I’m not just a grouch-puss this month; we consisted of one Americo-Franco, one Franco-Brit, one Americo-Brit and myself. The place is nice, but you can’t eat nice, and stark, but not Philippe, and full of French bobo’s with kids. We had two outstanding wines (one a Table Wine from Languedoc, the other a St Nicolas de Bougeuil) that were both good and good price-quality, the water was good, the bread and coffee OK and then, ah, then, the food. Well, I ordered the Utah Beaches which I was really looking forward to – 10 minutes passed (did I say we were on the second floor, far from the waitfolk?) and word came there were none. So I had the much written about sardinillas with nice lettuce, OK, nothing more, and the three others shared two platters of chorizo, good, but obtainable anywhere. Then against my non-verbal discouragement, two (one American, one French) had 22 € hamburgers that whether medium rare or raw rare were dry as a bone and pretty tasteless and an affront to 22 €. My Brit pal and I each had 4 grilled wild shrimp from Madagascar that were OK, I suppose, for 5.50 € each, with a sweet potato puree that was pretty good. As I implied the service was amateurish, slow as possible and uninformed. Our bill was 169.40 € for four.
Go back? No way to this disaster of the month.

[PhilD]

Have you searched the board? This is the third question about this in a short space of time.

[Dodo]

This topic has been covered already several times. A simple search with 'August' and you'll come up with several threads.