OT: Dining in Paris & London

Mother Mash in London.

/hotdogman

Try Le Soufflé , 36 Rue du Mont-Thabor. Near Rue de Rivoli, the Westin, and Place Vendome. In London, I like Wild Honey and for breakfast The Wolseley.

Here's a spoon. You can eat my ass.

I ate at Gusteau's, they have a fantastic new young chef.

Go to Hemingways bar in Paris, below the Ritz I believe and get yourself a $30 Manhattan because well yea.

Get Nutella crepes from vendors between the Westin and the Louvre...

if you want to have a great night in London, do a shake, rattle, and stir gin tour, they are fucking amazing.  the gf and I went on one and we were the ony americans, which is how you know the tour is good.  If you're looking for good curry, and a nice place also, go to Imli Street.

http://shakerattleandstir.co.uk/

Seriously, I just looked up shake, rattle, and stir, it is #5 out of 1,206 nightlife in london on trip advisor, with 69 excellent ratings, 3 very good, and 1 average

LONDON? PARIS? HAHAHAHA YOU ARENT CLOSE TO MY TAX BRACKET

In London:
The River Café
Ottolenghi
Zucca

In Paris:
Guy Savoy
Frenchie
Spring

I can't remember where it is, but it's in Paris near the center of the city. It's a little cafe with the best name ever due to the language.

My wife is English and I lived in a city north of London, but I still have a few ideas.
Just about any reasonable pub will do food. Traditional favorites like bangers and mash or spotted dick are things to try just to say you did. If you don't mind paying a little more Nandos is a great chicken place to go to. In you are looking for really cheap, Greggs is a walk in place that serves pasty (rhymes with nasty) that are good. I would also recommend getting a cherry tart for desert. There are also places around London that do fish and chips for pretty cheep.

You may know this already, but a bit of advice. Showing the back of two fingers, the reverse of a piece sign, is the equivalent of a giving the middle finger. I learned that the hard way.

Why people get so worked up over OT threads... It's OT... Meaning it probably doesn't pertain to michigan directly if at all. Avoid these threads of you don't want to read about non Michigan things. I for one find threads like these cool when things are slow. Yes it's a sports blog, and while it is The University of Michigan that binds us all together that doesn't mean we are short of other interesting things in our lives. The blog is evolving into a place you not only get the 411 on all things maize and blue, but a place for all Michigan fans to chit chat in between games, OMGshirtless pics, Harbaugh shenanigans and actual recruiting info. These threads are wayyyyyy better than UM obsessed threads like over on RCMB. The second we start doing that... Then commence with the complaints. Until then I'll be reading.... OPP (other people's posts) yeah you know me.

In London, I really enjoyed Great Queen St for dinner and Pimlico Fresh for breakfast.

A good resource for dining in Paris is Davidlebovitz.com. He's an expat pastry chef who lives in Paris and he has good, non-touristy recommendations. In London, we had good fish and chips at Kerbisher & Malt in Shepherd's Bush (birthplace of Roger Daltrey). Also, the Borough Market is a like a giant high quality food court with something for everyone. 

Honestly, don't listen to people here - explore on your own.  It's more fun that way.  If you have a crappy meal?  So what, you're on vacation.

I live in London...'reasonable to low priced' hahahahahaha...Never heard of it.

Dining out is expensive as hell so I rarely do it. But, there are some good markets here (Borough, Broadway, Alexandra Palace during the day and Street Feast at night) and Shoreditch is the new happening, hipster area with lots of restaurants (Dishoom is a popular Indian restaurant that isn't terribly expensive but can overflow with hipsters its open all day so breakfast or lunch works well) and bars..Dalston too which is a bit younger and down market. Both areas are on the same 'Overground' train line. 

All in all...expect a bit of sticker shock...have another drink and figure you'll pay it off by the time you take your next summer holiday.

Gaufre Maison

Doesn't the rat from ratatouille have a restaurant in Paris? Go there

Meat/Liquor is one of my favorites in London... though it is more of a burger place which isn't very British. Don't know places in Paris as I have only been there once for a conference and we just drank at bars.

Abeno and Abeno2 (there are 2, one near British Museum) does the okinawan pancakes named above. If you haven't tried them I highly recommend them in general. It's really good and pretty cost effective, esp for London.

I never get why people ask these questions there... this is a Michigan sports blog and forum... We might have decent advice, we might not, but there's literally forums out there for every other topic you can think of where members will most certainly have good advice. 

Here, let me help you:

Travel: TripAdvisor

Investing: Bogleheads (I'm sure there's others, but that's what I use)

MBA: GMATClub, Poets & Quants, etc. 

Use ze Google.

Good steakhouse. A few around. One by the Tower, another over by Piccadilly.

In the 7th arrondissement, a great breakfast place with the BEST hot chocalate you will ever have is Pain Et Chocolat.  

They are open Sundays (lots of restaurants close on Sunday nights) and they have this giant, communal cheese platter they pass around.

In London, a great local pub is The King and Queen pub in Fitzrovia. No dinner there, but they serve food at lunch.

In both cities, especially if you are going in a group, the restaurants prefer reservations, so try to plan ahead if you can.

In Paris one of the cooler things to do was to go to a semi private supper cloud. Jim Haynes was the one I went to and it was incredible and a fun experience. It is run by an expat who opens his studio on Sundays to the first  60 people who rsvp each week. Its  neat experience.

If your group likes Indian food, head to Brick Lane. It is about a 5 minute walk from the Liverpool station and has a wealth of places to choose from. Very reasonable food and very good. They have guys standing in front of their places to try to bring you in so you could probably bargain them against each other to get an even better deal.

two restaurants I enjoyed were Tiddy Dolls (yes that IS the name) and an excellent pub near Kensington Palace called The Swan. They have great bangers and mash

London has some of the best Indian restaurants in the world.

Wife and I found a pub a few years ago in London near Paddington Station that we really liked called Sir Alexander Fleming. Just off of the main road a few blocks east of there. Nothing fancy but good food/price if you're in that area.

London was a blast, Paris can be entirely avoided if visiting France.

Are you kidding? Pretty much everything in France is good and everything in England is mediocre unless it's fish and chips or ale.