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By: Georgie Coleman
Date: 14th Jul 08
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Exertion will pay off
What:
Bastille Day activities
Where:
Café Vue, 430 Little Collins St, Melbourne, 9691 3888
Aux Batifolles, 400 Nicholson St, North Fitzroy, 9481 5015
Dan Murphy's
When:
Until midnight here, and about 12 hours longer in France
Pour café / petite dejeuner: While we French purists have been turning our noses up at Vue de Monde (it's Vue du Monde, Monsieur Bennett), its little Café Vue is parfait - including the spelling. Sidle in with Le Monde under your arm, order a noisette (short macchiato) and a lemon and almond croissant that's richer than the Yves Saint Laurent (RIP) suit drinking his latte to your left. Set among concrete reinforced law chambers, the view is no rival to dangling your feet over Le Pont des arts - though you're too busy writing the latest treatise on l'existentialisme to notice the setting, anyway. For lunch, we hear you can't go past the hamburgers... not that you'd ever order something so Americain?
Pour diner: Authentic in every way - from cuisine to verging-on-obnoxious staff - Aux Batifolles is our dinner destination for Bastille Day.
Vin: Monsieur Chapoutier, from Cotes du Rhone, is the red wine of choice for bourgeoisie on a proletariat's budget. Available from Dan Murphy's.