Paris Discounts

[Jody]

One of the French posters on Fodor's just posted this link to special dining offers in Paris. It's similar to Toptable in the UK

Saw quite a few good restaurants listed with 50% off offers


www.lafourchette.com/promotion-restaurant-Paris/n_1O1O1OSPECIAL_OFFER.html

[PariS]

Looks good, Jody--thanks!

[PariS]

Here's another restaurant site I've found--some places offer discounts if you book thru the site:

www.restoclub.fr/

[holger]

I also read somewhere that restaurant week is the 11th of October to the 18th. But could not find anything on the web to find out which restaurants will be involved.

[PariS]

Woohoo! We'll be there We've decided to extend our trip a few days. I've heard about Restaurant Week, but have not been there during that time so I haven't paid much attention. Tell me more! ;D

[Darcy]

Yeah, I remember reading something about Restaurant Week in Paris too. Hope we can get some details.

[Darcy]

I found several sites on google that said resto week was June 7 to 13, 2010.

[PariS]

Here we go! Oct 11-17, 2010, but no list of participants yet. Looks like there's a deadline for restaurants to sign up by Aug. 15 to be included in the printed guide, so maybe within a month there will be more info out.

www.legout.com/home.php

[sistereurope]

I've used lafourchette....very easy.
We were in Paris last year for restaurant week, and Petit Marguery was running a special menu as part of RW, but it was higher than the posted prices. Still a deal if I recall...50e for 3 courses per person including paired wines.

[PariS]

This just in from Paris Notebook:

Le Fooding celebrates its 10th birthday with an all-star lineup of chefs
by Phyllis Flick August 31, 2010 at 15:59

Le Fooding celebrates their 10th anniversary this October with an incredible lineup of 18 of Paris’s best chefs who will take turns cooking for 72 hours non-stop in homage to 'La Marmite Perpetuelle” --the continuously bubbling pot-- a reference to Madame De Marme’s 18th century establishment on what is now the rue des Grands Augustins, where she sold capons simmered in a large pot over a fire that never went out. Legion says that the fire lasted nearly 100 years and more than 300,000 capons were cooked, one after another, in the same stock.

Here is the schedule:

October 1

00h00- 4h00 : Inaki Aizpitarte (Le Chateaubriand) ; 4h - 8h : Yves Camdeborde (Le Comptoir du Relais) ; 8h - 12h : Christian Etchebest (La Cantine du Troquet) ; 12h - 16h : Alberto Herraiz (Fogon) ; 16h - 20h : Stéphane Jégo (L’Ami Jean) ; 20h - 00h : William Ledeuil (Ze Kitchen Galerie)

October 2

00h - 4h : Christophe Pelé (La Bigarrade) ; 4h - 8h : Waiting to be confirmed ; 8h - 12h: Rose Carrarrini (Rose Bakery) ; 2h - 16h : Federica & Fabrizio Mancioppi (Caffé dei Cioppi) and Cédric Casanova (La Tête dans les olives) ; 16h - 20h : Christophe Michalak (Pastry Chef) ; 20h - 00h: Jean-François Piège (Thoumieux)

October 3

00h - 4h : Petter Nilsson (La Gazzetta) ; 4h - 8h: Waiting to be confirmed ; 8h - 12h : Grégory Marchand (Frenchie) ; 12h - 16h : Christophe Beaufront (L’Avant Goût) ;
16h - 20h : Guillaume Delage (Jadis) ; 20h - 00h : Adeline Grattard (Yam’Tcha)

Les Ebullitions Perpétuelles
Galerie W
44 rue Lepic
75018 Paris
1-3 October, non-stop

To reserve you will need to wait for details on Le Fooding website : www.lefooding.com

[anneparis]

I used "la fourchette" for the first time last tuesday. Worked out fine : we went to a seafood restaurant (vin et marée in the 11e), had a 50% discount on all à la carte items (not on drinks). I am now going to use this website more often...

[jo]

Just checked out the La Fourchette website. I like that you reserve online and the discount is automatically added to your bill. This avoids having to ask your waiter for the discount, which I would find a little intimidating.

Does anyone know how far ahead you have to reserve? Could we do it a few days ahead once we're already in Paris. I love a deal!

Also, thanks Annette for the heads up on the Le Fooding event. We are there that weekend, sounds like we'll have to check it out.

21 more days!!!!!!!!

JO

[anneparis]

Jo, You can reserve whenever you want. For my part, I reserved a few hours ahead and they got my resa on time ! Even though, they knew we came from "la fourchette", our waiter forgot the discount, but when we told him, he fixed it right away, with his apologies.
Anne

[PariS]

I was just browsing on La Fourchette and see Le Reminet currently has a 40% off offer. I haven't seen them on there before. I'm definitely going to try this site out next time. Good to hear some of you have tried it and it worked as it's supposed to.