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While visiting Hotel Les Deux Gares @hoteldeuxgares , it’s not just convenient, but rather tempting to visit the Cafe Les Deux Gares that is located just nest door.
My first visit there in September 2021 was quite comical…
Flying on an early flight from Warsaw, me and Grześ arrived exhausted, hungry and angry – also we had both a pretty heavy cold.
It took us 2 hours to get to the hotel from the airport (yes, the traffic jam in Paris in the morning is not the adventure you are looking for).
Luckily the weather turned out to be blissful.
The sun was shining and it felt rather like April than end of September…
We left our lugagge at the hotel, but we were too early to check in, so we headed to the cafe next to to the hotel.
We sat down outside, enchanted by the weather, enjoying “being Parisien” for at least a moment.
But no one was paying attention to us.No one came to serve us…
Led by sstarvation and of course- pride, I went inside to ask [ in French] if we could order anything to eat or drink.
But of course- bonjour, we are in France- you can’t eat anything between breakfast and lunch…also the guy I talked to in french answered me in english which made me really angry, as I took it for parisian arrogance…I said: JE PARLE FRANCAIS! and stormed out , turning around to the exit.
I looked like a really furious Kommendant (because of my officer hat).
We sstayed at the cafe anyway and waited till noon. We were desperate for any meal, coffee, anything.
After few minutes the same guy who answered me in english, now he seemed to me very charming .
Anton came and asked if we wanted to drink something: coffee or wine. We took both, because it would have been a sin not to drink wine before noon on such a lovely day.
PS . I wrote this almost a year ago- during last year I visited Cafe already miltiple times, I became super „copains” with the boys and I adore Fred, Anton and the whole crew.
Cafe les deux Gares became one of my favorite spots in Paris where I really feel like home.. any time, any mood, even if you come back directly from a 12 hour flight from the Caraibean- I would always go straight there – to see Fred and Anton first, then to see Paris.
[ fot. dishes:
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Concombre, hareng fumé, reine claude, oignon nouveau
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Saucisse txistorra, courgette, condiment citron
Truite , carotte, condiment betterave, pêche de vigne ]
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