Tourist trap means: a place that attracts tourists and ends up being full of them. That applies to good, average or bad restaurants. That’s my definition, other people may have a different one.
In the case of L’Ami Jean, the place was gradually invaded by tourists after it got plenty of word-of-mouth from various sources. I would be tempted to put Chez Dumonet in the same category: tourist traps whose touristiness hasn’t harmed the quality of the food.
Some of the tourist-trap paranoia comes from a desire not to be considered a tourist when travelling to a foreign country. That’s a tricky subject but I think there’s nothing wrong with being a tourist, insofar as each one of us is another person’s tourist.
Where was that blue feet chicken (actually a gauloise blanche, the breed for Poulet de Bresse) served?
