I had evening conference calls for "Save Our SPCO" last night and tonight that required me to be alert from 2am to 4am my time. (In truth I was a bit groggy ... yesterday I took a short nap at about midnight and today I just powered through ... and guess what ... there is not a magic wand for this!) So I went out to dinner late both nights to give me some nourishment for the meetings.
Now, you probably know that it is gauche to eat dinner before 8:00 here. Restos open for dinner around 8:00, but you might find yourself pretty much alone. Good service, though!
But this neighborhood is, like, totally hip and the cafes are still packed with happy-hour patrons at 9:30. Last night I ate at a place around the corner at around 9:45 with mixed results food-wise, but that's OK ... my main objective was to stay awake!
Tonight I headed out at 11:30, and after wandering up and down rue Montorgueil for a while, settled at the cafe right on the end of my street for a giant Salade Nicoise at around midnight. No worries ... kitchen was still open. The salad was huge, but I managed to eat all of the potatoes, lettuce, green beans, olives, eggs, tuna, tomatoes, red peppers, and a really tasty mustard vinaigrette ... enough for a family of five, but I was hungry!
Maybe I'm not hip enough for this 'hood. Or maybe I just need to let the hipsters rule from 9:00 on, and I can take the midday hours. Actually, it just occurred to me that I should do an informal socioeconomic analysis of the various times-of-day on rue Montorgueil. Maybe next trip.....
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