Autour De Midi

This was pretty much the perfect thing to have done on a Friday night at loose ends in Paris. Although it opens at 7pm, the first I could book was 7:30pm. It was nearly but never quite empty. The night's band was downstairs practicing their big endings. The food was great and slow to come. There are an older couple who seem to run the tables, the man speaks English, the woman doesn't understand it even if you are reading from their English chalkboard but is OK with even very bad French. No one bothers you if you read in the corner. You can get .25 and .50 of quite nice wines as well as glasses and bottles. The desert though is slightly insane, or at least mine was.