This is my first time posting, even though I’ve been lurking for quite awhile. My family and I are going to be in Paris for the first week of April. April 1-4 is all four of us (hubby, myself, teen son, and tween daughter) and April 4-8 is just my 12-year-old daughter and me. We are staying near the 3rd/11th with the whole family and then my daughter and I are staying in the 6th from April 4-8. This is our third trip to Paris as a family and my kids really enjoy all the food, from pastries to baguette sandwiches to Michelin star restaurants. We all love seafood and my son loves lamb and a nice steak. My daughter loves tea time. We probably can’t eat more than one nicer meal per day (our stomachs can’t handle it), so I am trying to alternate between casual, lighter fare with the multi-coursed restaurants.
Here is my tentative plan for restaurant reservations, based on browsing the posts here and other suggestions:
Wednesday (we arrive) lunch: walk to somewhere near our hotel, probably Les enfants du marche or sandwiches nearby or Chez Janou? Open to suggestions.
Wednesday dinner: Eunoe or Bistrot Instinct? Parcelles?
Thursday (we will be in the 1st/2nd arr. area) lunch: Empreinte
Thursday dinner: Frenchie Bar a Vins or something back in the Marais
Friday lunch: open
Friday dinner (last dinner together as a family so wanted to do something nice): Gemellus?
Saturday (daughter and I move to Pavilion Faubourg St. Germain) lunch: Cafe des Ministeres? Or somewhere in the 6th?
Saturday dinner: Baillotte
Sunday lunch (Easter): thinking of taking her to Galerie Dior so lunch is open and then Le Bristol for afternoon tea (last seating is 5pm) - maybe super light dinner afterwards? Not sure what is open Easter Sunday?
Monday lunch: open [maybe get sandwiches at le petit vendome?]
Monday dinner: figure we could eat at Les Parisiens since it’s at our hotel and there are limited Monday dinner options
Tuesday lunch: Akabeko
Tuesday dinner: Oktobre [or vice versa with Akabeko]
When it’s just my daughter and me, we prefer to go to dinner that’s walking distance from our hotel in the 6th. These are just my initial brainstorm. I would really welcome your thoughts and suggestions, please! (For more context, here are some restaurants we have enjoyed in our past 2 visits to Paris, some of them based on suggestions from this board: Alliance, Qui plume la lune, Benoit, L’Assiette, Le Train Bleu, Chez Dumonet, Les Botanistes, Pianovins.)
