So, here is a fantastic find: l'Ourcine. When my mum and Erik were visiting in August we wanted to try and new little restaurant around the corner from Le Foyer Vietnamien that I just wrote about. We don't know the name of it, we just call it the red restaurant since they didn't have a sign up, but the front was painted bright red. So off we went, only to find out it was closed for the month of August. Yes, it does still happen in our modern times, as hard as it is to believe. The fish store just down the street closes for July AND August each year if you can believe it. I guess they have the rental rate locked in and grandfathered from generations ago!
After finding out that the red restaurant was closed I jumped onto timeout.com/paris and looked for something close by. The good thing about timeout.com/paris is that they only have about 200 restaurants listed for Paris. Given the number of restaurants in the tourist capital of the world, you can pretty much bet that the 200 or so they have listed will be good. The down side that there is a chance that a restaurant that you want to try isn't very close by, or may be closed, so best to plan ahead.
So following my trusty Google maps on my iPhone, 20 or so minutes later we arrived at l'Oursine. "Vous avez de la place pour quatre" I ask. "Vous avez une réservation?" Merde, I thought of course the good little local place is going to be full, but alas the manager came our and said, sure no problem we can fit you in. We enjoyed a fantastic meal, €32 fixed price, 3 courses. I would highly recommend it and will go again, after we've exhausted the other 199 places on the list!
We'll get to the red restaurant sooner or later!
l'Ourcine
92 rue Broca
75013 Paris
01 47 07 13 65
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