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Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Reservations are an absolute must in Paris. Restaurants have very limited seating capacities and dinner service hours are shorter than in America.

The best restaurants always book up fast, with the top places getting hundreds of reservation requests a day. I started making arrangements for reservations approximately 4 months prior to arriving in Paris. Most restaurants accept reservations anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months in advance, with a couple here and there taking them several months in advance. Use your hotel concierge for help with reservations.

They speak the language, are on local time, and they typically know the best times to call for reservations. Our concierge was extremely helpful in not only making us reservations, but also confirming them as well. Make sure when you arrive to Paris, have your concierge confirm all your reservations. Want to know more about getting reservations in Paris? As an American, you will most likely get one of the earliest reservations of the night, just as the restaurant opens for dinner service around or 8 p.

Since there are only a couple servers for the entire place, the beginning of service is the slowest, allowing them the time and patience to warmly translate for you. As your meal progresses, you will see locals start filling up the place if you chose a good restaurant, that is and the servers get more and more hurried. One more thing regarding reservations: Here in the U. If you have a or 8 p. Here in New York, restaurants are pretty much open all day, from lunch all the way through the end of dinner service.

In Paris, there are two distinct service times: Lunch is typically from around 12 until , and dinner around p. If you are hungry in between, you can always step into a patisserie or boulangerie.

We took full advantage of late afternoon bakery runs! In a city where food is driven from seasonal and local ingredients, menus at good restaurants change frequently, sometimes even daily. At every restaurant we dined, the menu was either written in chalk on a giant chalkboard or told to us orally.

One day we visited Brussels and by the time we got back to Paris, it was around 10 p. We were so exhausted from the day, we only had enough energy to visit the bistro right around the corner from our hotel. I knew what we were in for… they had laminated menus. Was the food terrible? You betcha. Many restaurants offer prix-fixed lunch and dinner options. This is often the best bargain at a restaurant and is generally a great value. You can take a boat tour, visit the five towns in three hours, and rightfully claim that you have been to the Cinque Terre; millions of tourists do just that.

Suppose you want a more profound, more complete experience. In that case, this guide gives you all the information you need to plan a more extended staying, with details on the restaurants, the places where you can have a drink, where you can sleep, and where you can buy unique souvenirs from each of the five villages.

It also lists the places you should visit. The courses have an illustration so you can see and decide where to go. The guide also lists the bicycle rental places and the itineraries for a regular and electric bicycle tour.

There is a long tradition of culinary excellence; the pesto has its origin here. This culinary tradition also comes from the nearby Magra Valley area. It is now very much frequented by culinary experts, even if it is not as famous as the internationally known main attraction. You have access to a recipe database for some of them.

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