But most with
But most with a bow to the demands of nouvelle cuisine with lighter sauces and smaller portions. Fortunately there are exceptions.
In the Left Bank, directly across the Boulevard St Germain from the Caf? de Flore sits the Lipp, arguably the most famous brasserie in Paris. On any given day at lunchtime, the Brasserie Lipp hosts politicians, actors and other French notables.
The Lipp is gloriously fin de si?cle, with Belle ?poque chandeliers, elaborate wall mosaics and authentic hand-lettered signs, like the one asking patrons to kindly smoke cigarettes instead of pipes. (Another requests that patrons refrain from using mobile phones at the table; it lacks the 19th century patina of the others.)
Seating at the Lipp follows a rigid hierarchy, regulars and VIPs in the first room, mere French mortals in the second, slightly smaller room in the back and tourists upstairs.
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