HELP!! - Paris ' Bistro Crawl '.....Choices are scary! Please help to eliminate!!

[pilgrim]

@ParnParis

Like most Parisians, I only eat onion soup as a hangover preventative at 3am, on a particularly bleak and cold winter afternoon, or when I have cold. Never as part of a meal because it also ruins the taste buds. Since it’s largely a tourist dish, quality varies enormously and is often watered down as the day goes on. I only know of consistently good onion soup at La Rotonde Montparnasse.

I am an outlier on onion soup in Paris. We somehow have never encountered a dubious or watered down bowl. It is winter lunch of choice, usually at a busy “bar”. L’Horizon is often our choice. Ample bowls of steaming, deeply flavorful broth full of sliced onions and of course a melty mound of gruyere on a hefty crouton. Restorative elixir on a cold day. I am sure there are poor examples, but we haven’t found them.