David B.
Yelp
On a business trip to Roissy--not Paris, no, we were stuck at the Airport Sheraton and an industrial park--I dragged my team into the city to get one real French meal on the last day of the project.Thank you, Yelpers, for pointing us in the right direction.
If you don't like stinky cheese and don't like the pureed livers of force-fed ducks, don't order them. A couple of my teammates would broaden that rule a bit, but the stinky cheese and foie gras were so good to some of us that shouting the naysayers down was a good option. It was so good that I would like to personally apologize to the ducks involved, but given how much duck poop my dog has rolled in over the past few years, it might not be the full-throated apology they deserve.
For the guys who prefer less challenging food, may I present a steak with potatoes au gratin and a green pepper sauce on the side. I had this myself, in fact, and snarfed it down with gusto as did everyone else. That, and the reasonably-priced Bordeaux. And the veal, in one case. (Which is worse ethically, veal or foie gras? I know I'm going straight to hell for even asking, but at this restaurant, it's relevant because they were both so good.)
Je suis desole that my team didn't want anything more adventurous, and that my company-issued laptop can't do accents properly. But the food was the best I've had in France in three or four trips here, it was only a 15-minute walk back to the prison train--sorry, RER B--to the airport hotels the company put us at, and for €40 we got a wine I'd pay $50.42 for back home. (If you know how French prices work, you know what I mean.)
Oh, and the servers speak English just fine. It's very simple in France, as it is everywhere else in the world: if you make an effort to learn the customs and language of the country you're visiting, people will treat you well. If you're a rude tourist, they won't. So I challenge the people who downgraded this place because they thought the waiter was rude to examine their own conduct, and maybe learn the phrase "excusez-moi de vous deranger, mais j'ai un petit question du menu" by heart.