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I just found a nice list of very nice Paris restaurants.
http://www.parisnotes.com/restaurant/parisrestaurant.html Some of the restaurants
are in the 16th arrondissement, by our apartment.

4 Rue Beethoven, 16th, Paris. Tel: (1) 40 50 84 40. Closed Sat.-Mon. Average €150.

It's famously hard to get a reservation at Astrance, where chef Pascal Barbot
has created a contemporary French cooking style that relies on purity of flavor
rather than fat. His multi-course tasting menu for €150 leaves you feeling surprisingly
sprightly thanks to Barbot's instinctive sense of balance. Dishes rely on textures
and colors as much as flavors, frequently drawing on Asian ingredients such as miso
(in lacquered eggplant) or lemongrass and chili pepper (in a palate-cleansing sorbet).
The dining room is sober gray, the waiters serious about their work – the only thing
missing is an affordable lunch menu. Paris Notes Top 20 since Dec 05

In the mood for simplicity: La Table Lauriston hspace="10" src="http://www.parisnotes.com/restaurant/lauriston.jpg" width="180"
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129 rue Lauriston, 16th, Paris. Tel: (1) 47 27 00 07. Closed Sun. No lunch Sat.
Average €50.

If too many frothy sauces have left you longing for simplicity, you'll appreciate
Serge Barbey's straightforward yet sensual cooking at La Table de Lauriston. The
setting feels surprisingly warm for a restaurant in the business-minded 16th arrondissement,
with pink, orange and silver-striped walls and chairs in indigo and gold. The frequently
changing menu of bourgeois classics draws on seasonal ingredients, such as asparagus
from the Landes (in south-west France) and morels in spring, and his pan-fried steak
is gargantuan. Best value is the €25 limited-choice lunch menu, but that would mean
missing out on one of the most extravagant baba au rhums in town, doused in a choice
of three rums. Paris Notes Top 20 since Dec 05.

The list was compiled by Rosa Jackson for Paris
Notes.

Longtime Paris food writer Rosa Jackson writes a monthly restaurant column for
Paris Notes and runs Edible Paris (http://www.edible-paris.com/),
which provides personalized food itineraries and guided gourmet walking tours for
visitors to Paris. She also offers market tours and hands-on cooking classes in
Nice ( http://www.petitsfarcis.com/).

If anyone has tried any of these restaurants, let us know. -- Paris For Vacation
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