Showing posts with label Rest - Cafe de Paris. Show all posts
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Café de Paris Fights The Big Boys And Scores Big WIth French Onion Soup, Tuna And Crepes

Café de Paris in Columbia made Richard Gorelick's list of the 50 Best in the Baltimore suburbs, and it also pleased DonkeyKong, a Howard County native who lives here with his wife and two kids.

A few weeks ago, he wanted a special weeknight dinner to celebrate his wife's birthday.  A sitter was near impossible, so they decided to go local, but try a high-end spot.
With a grandparent showing up to give us a few hours to go out, we opted to try Café Du Paris off Rte. 100 and Rte. 108. We’ve always wanted to try it, but honestly -- and maybe it’s the conditioned inferiority complex I have about Howard County’s restaurant scene -- we have reasoned, if we are going out to eat then “WE ARE GOING OUT TO EAT”. That means a $100 meal in DC or Baltimore to fill out the illusion of date night where the ambiance must match the drive, the sitter, and the brief escape from reality that dining out provides.