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Ile de France Cocktail Recipe

Build in a Champagne glass:

• ½ tsp fine sugar

• ½ pony cognac

Fill with dry Champagne, chilled.

Top with 2 dashes yellow Chartreuse.

Serve!

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Brasseries

• Grand Café

  Capucines

  Created during the inauguration of the Opéra Garnier in 1875, the Grand Café Capucines quickly became an essential place on the Grands Boulevards. Oysters, Parisian-style lobster, and seafood platters can be enjoyed daily from 7 am to 1 am. Consider this location for an after-show dinner too.

• Bouillon

  Julien

  "Here, Everything Is Beautiful, Delicious And Great Value," claimed Edouard Fournier, founder of Bouillon Julien (1906). And not much has changed since. Bouillon Julien is one of the most beautiful restaurants in Paris, if not the world. It remains one of the best-preserved examples of the Art Nouveau style.

• Brasserie

  Vagenende

  Admire the glass roof covering an old interior courtyard, the earthenware with braided fruit motifs, or the 36 landscapes painted on molten glass created and signed by Pivain while enjoying classic French dishes. Details here.

• Brasserie

  Floderer

  FLODERER is the original name of the first brasserie known as FLO, Cour des Petites Ecuries in Paris. Founded by two Alsatians who fled their region after the annexation by Germany at the end of the 19th century, this institution quickly became one of the most prestigious brasseries in France. Click here.

• Terminus

  Nord Brasserie

  This Parisian brasserie has been inviting you since 1925 to enter Paris through the gourmet gate. Businessmen leaving for London, travelers returning from Brussels, families, everyone meets at the Northern Terminus: the liveliest of the Grandes Brasseries. Details here.