Comments on: Restaurant des Gourmets http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:07:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Jones Seven Sisters London http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-145 Michael Jones Seven Sisters London Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-145 When I first saw the pictures of the Restaurant des Gourmets, the first thing that came into my mind was the photographs taken of the rue des Canettes on Bastille Day in 1949 by the French photographer Robert Doisneau. The book I have is published by Hazan and showing seven pictures in all, they more or less chronicle the day's festivities beginning with children's games in the daytime, and then adults carousing in the bars at night. Two of these pictures show the Restaurant des Gourmets in the background, but what is interesting is that upon closer inspection you can see that by the year in question it had been renamed the Restaurant des Canettes. But as a series of pictures displaying residential life on a central Parisian street in the post war years they are priceless, and the marvel that we can also compare these pictures by going up and down the street with the Google Street View Map only adds to the pleasure of seeing how the city has changed since then. On page 348 of the same book there are some people sitting on the pavement, and with a sign above them reading "Rest..." and then underneath it "Alex...," you would normally be at a loss as to its true identity and location. The Street View Map rectifies this straight away, and moving parallel with what is today's Bar Six we find the Aux Trois Canettes Chez Alexandre Restaurant. Happily some things do not change, and with regards to the City of Light that's the way I like it. The last gem that appears out of this series of pictures is the one taken at the end of the road facing the rue du Four, and having two people waltz the night away it was also used as the front cover for Antony Beevor's book The Liberation of Paris. When I first saw the pictures of the Restaurant des Gourmets, the first thing that came into my mind was the photographs taken of the rue des Canettes on Bastille Day in 1949 by the French photographer Robert Doisneau. The book I have is published by Hazan and showing seven pictures in all, they more or less chronicle the day’s festivities beginning with children’s games in the daytime, and then adults carousing in the bars at night. Two of these pictures show the Restaurant des Gourmets in the background, but what is interesting is that upon closer inspection you can see that by the year in question it had been renamed the Restaurant des Canettes. But as a series of pictures displaying residential life on a central Parisian street in the post war years they are priceless, and the marvel that we can also compare these pictures by going up and down the street with the Google Street View Map only adds to the pleasure of seeing how the city has changed since then. On page 348 of the same book there are some people sitting on the pavement, and with a sign above them reading “Rest…” and then underneath it “Alex…,” you would normally be at a loss as to its true identity and location. The Street View Map rectifies this straight away, and moving parallel with what is today’s Bar Six we find the Aux Trois Canettes Chez Alexandre Restaurant. Happily some things do not change, and with regards to the City of Light that’s the way I like it. The last gem that appears out of this series of pictures is the one taken at the end of the road facing the rue du Four, and having two people waltz the night away it was also used as the front cover for Antony Beevor’s book The Liberation of Paris.

]]> By: Eric http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-147 Eric Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-147 I'm trying that duck next weekend! I’m trying that duck next weekend!

]]> By: Kreg Wallace http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-148 Kreg Wallace Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-148 Right on, Eric... Let me know how it turns out. I think I'd be hard-pressed to find duck or veal stock in my local supermarket, but a trip to Whole Foods might turn up something interesting. The other recipe from Des Gourmets involves calf's liver and eggplant; mmm.... Right on, Eric…

Let me know how it turns out. I think I’d be hard-pressed to find duck or veal stock in my local supermarket, but a trip to Whole Foods might turn up something interesting. The other recipe from Des Gourmets involves calf’s liver and eggplant; mmm….

]]> By: Amsterdam Travel http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-149 Amsterdam Travel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.millerwalks.com/content/restaurant-des-gourmets#comment-149 havent tried duck anytime will do it soon havent tried duck anytime will do it soon

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