I haven't had an artichoke in a million years, I don't even remember if I liked it. ::kisaki::faith wrote:I LOVE the big artichokes. Normally I just steam them and eat them plain without any seasonings, etc.
The small ones are like the big ones, only little.
The thing I find though, is that any restaurant using artichokes usually either uses the pickled ones, which I don't like, or leaves the leaves on the hearts (it bothers me).
But it's not relevant for me. Maybe I just eat out at nonfashionable places, but none of them have ever had an artichoke dish...
I don't know if it's a fashionable thing or not (I'm not knowledgeable about that and I'm not really interested), but I'm just searching randomly through Fodor's/recommendations/internet/historical places. But yeah, I keep coming upon artichokes and foie gras. I made reservations to these (I'm probably going to a couple of other places you mentioned along with Procope) because of the location/building/history, but I hear the food is good as well. I liked what you said about the restaurants though, how they normally have the same menus, that's good to know XD It's all kind of mind-boggling and hard to choose from though.
http://www.procope.com/ (oldest cafe in Paris)
http://www.cieldeparis.com/ (the view!)
http://www.fermettemarbeuf.com/ (old too! I'm so glad it wasn't destroyed.)
and here:
I also didn't know that foie gras was controversial. I didn't know about the forced feeding or any of that, hm.
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