Le Parisien was the dinner choice of the evening due to its proximity to our hotel and the…read morevegetarian offerings.
We elected to sit outside which may have been a mistake due to the weather and my inability to properly plan for weather but it provided some decent people watching.
There are QR code menus on the table but they are only in French and do not contain a drink menu. We were given paper menus with English descriptions and drinks at our request.
To drum up the ol' appetite, GF started with an old fashioned and I one of the selections from the drink menu, the bonne maman which may be a real drink but nothing I have ever heard of prior. Looking it up, it is a French jam. It may or may not be what I ordered but it was perhaps a touch too sweet but at least it went down easily.
For the solids, I ordered a vegetarian salad with a bunch of veggies and a very light, freshing sauce over a bed of quinoa. Other than the onions, this was very tasty and I didn't hate myself after eating it. I just may shit this week because of this meal in between all of the cheese (of which you are about to get a glimpse) and pastries.
GF ordered the croque monsieur which comes with fries and a salad. As a vegetarian, I did could only sample a small corner of the sandwich that did not have a slice of ham and it was INCREDIBLE. The bread was toasty but that cheese combo on the bread was heaven. The fries were also pleasantly crispy.
We haven't been absolutely bathing in cheese yet on this trip so we ordered their cheese plate and, as GF put it, "they really cleaned out their fridge for us". I have never seen a cheese plate like this before. It was a straight up plate entirely covered in different cheeses. It was so much cheese we couldn't finish it but don't think we didn't try. The cheese was amazing, it was a really nice variety of hard and soft cheeses and went excellently with the French bread with which it was served.
A random man, about our millennial age, came up to us and literally asked us for a small piece of the bread from our bowl. It was strange and if this means something, please fill me in.
Enjoyable meal.