The Best of Paris (The Best of ...) (Paperback)

~ Andre Gayot (Editor), Brigitte Du Tanney (Editor), Sheila Mooney (Translator), Heidi Eillson (Translator)

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Product Description

The complete insider's guide to the most romantic city in the world, The Best of Paris offers an up-to-date translation of Gayot/Gault Millau's French-language guide to Paris and its environs, featuring no-holds-barred reviews of restaurants, bistros, cafes, hotels, and country inns. Illustrations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: Gault Millau; 8 Revised edition (July 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881066304
• ISBN-13: 978-1881066309
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,274,064 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete, witty and authoritative., November 16, 1999

By	R.K. Lewis ([e-mail]) (Crooked River Ranch, Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

Gayot's Paris offers a French perspective on the City of Light. Most French people I know consider the Gualt-Millau guides the most accurate and up-to-date availabe - notwithstanding Michelin. GM says their guides "...distinguish the truly superlative from the merely overrated" - an extremely useful service in my experience. The restaurant and hotel listings are concise and dead accurate and the shopping notes are great too. Nightlife and sightseeing are very well covered and the critical appraisals of places and sights is particularly helpful. This is a very useful book for the selective traveler, and was especially helpful in sorting-through the mind-numbingly endless possibilities Paris offers.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars outdated, September 27, 2000

By A Customer

Although the reviews of the restaurants are overall on the target, this guide has a MAJOR flaw -- it is not updated very frequently. This edition, for instance, was last modified back in 1997. Many of its recommendations have moved, closed down, or changed business hours. Another problem is that the book does not make it easy to find any of the restaurants. For some reason, the names of the (allegedly) nearest metro stop are given for the shops, but not for the restaurants. The bottom line is: I don't recommend using this book as your primary source.