You know how each time we travel we seem to meet a character or two that goes down in our travel journal as the quinessential "italian" or in this case "Parisien"? We met him last night...he was our waiter at the restaurant, Leo li Leon. This little restaurant is about a block from our hotel and Louise the receptionist said that every person she has sent there has never been disappointed...and we are no different.
From the moment he took our coats at the door he was something to watch. We have a very hard time reading french and he put the menu...all 3 by 4 ft of it on the edge of our table. We pulled out the rick steves dictionary and none of the words were there...I think we had that look on our face and the waiter, let's call him Jacque, told us to relax (very parisienny) and then he walked away.
We laughed and about 5 minutes later he told us in pretty good english what the menu was and then he took our wine order. We asked him to pick it..he did wonderful! Bordeaux all the way!
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| Tom, Priscilla and Jacques the waiter |
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| The four of us having our Anniversary dinner |
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| Strawberries with balsamic vinegar and whipped creme |
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| Tom's dessert, something floating |
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| Chocolate souffle |
We started to order, he let us know that he wanted to know each of our starters, then each of our entrees. It went well until Tommy ordered lamb. Jacque asked him medium or well done, Tom said well, and Jacque had the funniest look on his face...a cross between a wrinkled nose and a bad taste and he even put his index finger against his nose...Tom got the hint and recanted the well done to medium. Jacque told him good choice, I actually think he giggled and off he went. We had a fantastic meal, hands down Dar had the best, prawns and risotto. We closed the place down at midnight and Jacque kissed us good-bye. Again we say that we have not met a rude Parisienne.
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