Here’s what appears to be a good one, though we got serious about it too late to get reservations. The Rotisserie du Beaujolais is right across the street and run by the Tour d’Argent. Food is simple bistrot, but the setting overlooks Notre Dame and the menu looked tasty though Patricia Wells didn’t like it too much.
Address is: 19, Quai Tournelle, 75005 Paris, 01 43 54 17 47 Website supposedly is La Tour d’Argent, but I couldn’t find any details anywhere on this site.
Beaujolais Boredom It should be so easy to get it right. A great Left Bank location, a giant rotisserie and a full list of what may well be the world’s best known wine. But a meal the other evening at the popular La Rotisserie du Beaujolais proved to be a total bore.
Patricia Wells
Corner cafes have more charm and personality than this worn-down affair, where waiters bicker, service is lackadaisical and disorganized, and the food simply monotonous, with undistinguished roast duck, a truly tasteless grilled onglet (flank steak) and endless portions of pearly white potato puree.
Even rivers of George Duboeuf’s cheery Saint-Amour couldn’t make me love the place.
