Better late than never, right??
That just goes to show you that some things take 20+ years to get adopted in France (from the U.S.), while other things are instantaneous (via the internet, I guess). Though I love salads, I’m way too grossed out by salad bars (for various neurotic reasons), but I wanted to at least take a look at the salad bar à la française here. Sadly, they were closed. I just got a kick out the sign that said, “New Concept: Salad Bar.” It made me laugh out loud, disturbing this man reading a book.
Having said that, I’m not knocking it, really. In France when you go to most restaurants, the salads are boring and there aren’t lots and lots of choices, in fact, you’d be lucky to even HAVE a choice of different salads. It’s usually lettuce, tomatoes, possibly an olive with seed and ALWAYS the same dressing of Dijon mustard viniagrette (and usually too much of it – at least in my experiences.) So, if you can handle community salad bars, this is a great alternative. Good for you, salad bar near La Defense!
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they don’t have salad bars here, but have picked up a LOT of buffet places! love the pic of lulu and the tulips!
Comment by Kat 05.26.06 @ 7:20 amIt’s not a salad bar , it’s a bar a salades, maybe they tell “BS” to people, and you just pay for a story ? That’s why it’s a “nouveau concept!”
Comment by Calimero 05.26.06 @ 9:07 amI recall there being something of an all you can eat buffet when I was there before. I was really surprised to see one. But I have no clue as to how wide-spread they are today.
Comment by the stiltwalker 05.26.06 @ 1:23 pmcalimero. you’re a silly little bird!
a note here for ppl unfamiliar with the french phrase to understand calimero’s comment above: “raconter des salads” means to bullsh*t.
thanks, kat!
Comment by ptinfrance 05.26.06 @ 2:10 pmi think the buffets are more common with chinese restaurants. other than that, i haven’t seen other kinds of all-you-can-eat restaurants.
Comment by ptinfrance 05.26.06 @ 2:25 pmA few chains are starting to have all you can eat:
-Flunch ( some sort of cafeteria ) , has all you can eat side dishes. ( not the meat, but fries, potatoes, beans etc.. )
-Pizza pai has a whole you can eat appetizer.
oh yeah!!! i totally forgot about flunch. and not to mention the all you can eat fries at french family restaurant chains. i even wrote about it!
Comment by ptinfrance 05.27.06 @ 2:05 amI guess we will have to learn how to say “sneeze guard” in French…to describe the usually ineffective glass that hovers between the salad and the saladee.
Comment by Monsieur CAVALIER 05.27.06 @ 10:09 amIt would be so interesting to go back to Paris. I’ve never seen it sober! (Used to live a block or two from the Eiffel Tower on the rue de l’Universite…my computer as no accent marks.) I worked at the American Embassy on the fourth floor behind a locked metal door…in the early 1960s. Have now been continuously abstinent for about 43 years, so it would be a treat to see how the EiffelTower really looks!(je plaisante pas!)
Salut!
maybye you should try it, allen. you can’t go wrong by going back to paris for a visit even if looks entirely different this time around 
you’ll probably remember your time spent there better too. btw, a big congrats on 43 unintoxicated years!
In twenty years will there be one of these (www.cereality.com) somewhere ?
Comment by Marvin Gardens 06.14.06 @ 8:43 am 
lol
if they do the french are doomed to get fat like americans.
i hope they have rice krispies, tho
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