Friday, 30 January 2009

La Mirabelle






Maria and Danie at the end of a shift, 2004




Tim said...

Ah... Chez Danie! Arguably the best tartes tatins in Paris! Sorely missed...

Peter said...

A very honorable "fight" you propose here; let's defend all small independent restaurants! I do my best already, but you can always do better!! Fortunately I live in an area where there are a number of them available, hopefully still for long! What would Paris be without them?

It seems that you use your lunch time for posting; don't you forget about eating - and defending the small restaurants? :-)

Have a nice weekend with some decent eating!

Starman said...

As long as there breathes a soul who thinks he/she has something to offer, there will be those who dream to open their own restaurant. Some will realize those dreams, others will not. I have friend in Toulouse who dreamed of opening a restaurant in New York. He even went so far as to go to New York and investigate the possibility. He discovered that there is as much bureaucracy to be overcome in the US as there is in France. He is still in Toulouse. Dreaming.

Adam said...

Peter: I try to alternate. On busy days, I support the local independant boulanger and buy a sandwich!

Starman: I believe like you that there will always be people ready to give it a go, but this a very particular kind of restaurant I was trying to describe here. A one or two person operation, not offering haute cuisine, but just honest food at an affordable price for the lunchtime crowd. There isn't a great deal of money in that.

Squirrel said...

I think these photos of Mirabelle are wonderful, and sad of course.

we have one spot in Nyack where restaurants come and go, maybe it is a bad luck spot or something.

Peter said...

(I talk about you on my post today, Monday 2/2. Referring to Auscher. You gave me the idea.)

Cergie said...

Tous ces posts en quelques jours ! Celui ci très nostalgique, c'est drôle je parle de mirabelle aujourd'hui. As tu remarqué que l'ananas qui est l'or de la Côte d'Ivoire est jaune, l'orange l'or du Maroc et de la Floride jaune ou orange, et la mirabelle, l'or de la Lorraine jaune... Comme chaque fois un éclat de soleil....
Les restaurants qui disparaissent, comme les commerces, sont des échecs de personnes courageuses dans un monde de concurrence et de profit. C'est toujours triste. C'est le triomphe des chaînes, et de l'uniformisation.

Percy Thrillington said...

Ahhh... chez Danie, ça fleure bon la fin des 90's et la bulle Internet ! Merci à Tim de m'avoir transmis ce lien, et à Adam d'avoir immortalisé les 2 patronnes ! Comme cela, il reste quelque chose de ce petit resto quelque part ;o)

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