Hotel Le Sainte-Beuve
Paris, France
Eating
A B&B hotel without a breakfast room; instead, tables
are plonked around the salon in the morning, one in front of the
fire; a very casual arrangement delightfully orchestrated, all of
which suits the spirit of the hotel. You come down, sit where you
wish and are served hand on foot by obliging staff. Pots of fresh
coffee are brought forth, baskets of croissants (from the Mulot
boulangerie, one of the best) and baguette appear with jams
and yoghurts and freshly-squeezed orange juice. You can go a la
carte and have coffee and omelettes if that’s what you
fancy.
A light room-service menu is available at certain times of
day (hot food: noon-3pm, 7pm-9pm; cold food noon-9pm, but not
Sunday night); expect soups and salads, croque monsieur, quiche
lorraine, even a hamburger.
Local restaurants are on your doorstep. Try Le
Timbre, very small, loved by locals, English-cooked, with a
fine cellar. Try La Coupole on Boulevard Montparnasse, a big
old bistro, where hard-up artists (some now famous) paid for food
with pictures, many of which still hang on the wall. La
Rotonde nearby, nice and simple, serves great meat from the
Massif Central. If you want, you can wander up to Saint Germain and
dine at Les Deux Magots, where Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
spent the early sixties in the company of assorted artists and
intellectuals.
Features include:
- Room Service
- Bar
- Breakfast
- Walk to restaurants
- Minibar
