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Le Chartier (Brasserie)

Description: 7, rue du Faubourg Montmartre,Paris.

Newest Review: ... to get in, but I've never queued for more than 10 minutes, and it's worth it, (team up with other waiting clients to fill larger tables and cheat the queue - very unBritish I know, but when in...doo as...) Waiters scribble your order on the paper tablecloth (I'm told they used to keep it all in their heads - not a mean feat given the size of the place). The menus are on paper ... more

... too - a different type-filled piece of A4 every day - with starters ranging from nine francs (yes, that's about 90p) for a simple tomato salad or a plateful of radishes with butter, to £3 or £4 for something a bit more elaborate: prawns or snails pe...more

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Le Chartier (Brasserie): Top of the Charts (519 words)
by - written on 10/01/01 (Very useful, 336 readings)
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A big brasserie, off the busy Grands Boulevards cinema district, with good, quick, cheap food, drinkable wines, the best in haughty French service and an atmosphere that most restaurateurs would sell their chef for. Yes, the ambiance is what makes Le Chartier unique. It buzzes. It clinks. It clatters. The French probably outnumber the tourists, and some of my friends will hate me for giving the secret away, so any passing visitors to Paris out there, you'll have to promise not to all invade the place at once. Don't expect posh. If you come alone or in a pair you might be elbow to elbow with strangers. That's how popular this place is... ... Read the complete review