By Barbra Austin
The leafy terrace at Hôtel Amour.
The food at Hôtel Amour is perfectly fine, but it’s the leafy terrace in the back that makes my heart sing. On a warm summer day it feels several degrees cooler in this sort of urban secret garden. Here it’s also cooler, with a laid-back right-bank mix of diners tucking into their tartare with gusto.
The menu is conducive to light meals and snacking. Start with a bunch of radishes or make a meal out of a chicken Caesar salad, a salade niçoise, or a plate of melon, mozzarella and Spanish ham. In case you haven’t noticed, the offerings here are less French, more casual-cosmopolitan. But then so is the clientele. >> Read more
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t has been said that touring Paris is just a matter of killing time between meals. Several trends in the Paris dining scene today: Neo-bistros or gastronomic bistros that are owned by a classically trained chef, restaurants where there is no menu and you are served whatever the chef picks for you such as Le Chateaubriand and wine bars with small plates, serving either French, Spanish or Moroccan tapas. Tea salons continue to be popular as do restaurants with communal tables.
