Restaurants in Paris where we can take a buggy easily in the evening!

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We are staying at the Westin Paris Hotel on 3 Rue De Castiglione, Paris 75001! Following advice from here, we think we'll end up taking our 11 mo out for an early dinner or she will sleep in the buggy (which I don't believe for a moment!). Can anyone recommend a couple of places??

Café Marly in the Louvre (or Café Ruc just outside) - both great for babies/children and right by your hotel.

Further from your hotel - Noura on avenue Marceau (the traiteur, not the pavillon) is very baby friendly and has high chairs.

oh thanks Anna - that's really helpful. How many minutes walk is Noura on avenue Marceau roughly do you think? Is it generally considered ok to take babies out for dinner? I am so paranoid and worried about this as DD usually goes to bed at 6:30!

I've always taken my daughter out to dinner in Paris. You can calculate distances on www.viamichelin.com (including walking distances) - from your hotel to Noura is 38 minutes (mostly along Champs-Elysées) or 2.5 km, so a bit far on foot. The big advantage of Noura Traiteur is that it is open all day so you can have dinner really early, which is great if you are with a baby. It's Lebanese food, by the way, which is now my daughter's favourite - we had takeaway from there for her birthday 10 days ago, including kebbe which your baby will probably love too.

Café Marly and Café Ruc are also open all day, come to think of it. Café Marly is really nice.

You are brilliant and as you are now my offical Paris expert, I must now barrage you with a million questions....!!

What sort of food are Cafe Marly and Cafe Ruc?
Also - are there any places that serve food at lunch time that have big sofas??

Also - is there anywhere that springs to mind where DD could have a bit of a crawl around (we have a bookshop here for example which seems to have turned in to an unoffical childrens corner!

Café Marly and Café Ruc both belong to the Costes brothers (also Hôtel Costes, Georges restaurant at the Centre Pompidou) and serve modern European cuisine, very health/trend conscious. There is something for everybody as long as they don't want to stuff themselves . I have always gone to Costes restaurants as a family as everyone leaves happy - you can have foie gras and a steak or a club sandwich or a salad and some fish etc.

Big sofas - harder. The Parisians are not big on comfort/lounging around over food. There are sofas at Café Marly (inside) and at the Café Ruc, if you get there early. You could go upstairs at the Café de Flore on boulevard Saint-Germain but it's not very child-friendly IMO - more for celebrity-spotting - or for being gawped at (perhaps you are a celebrity? ). Let me think and I will post again if I have a brainwave.

Crawling - so we are talking carpet, another concession to comfort that Parisians rarely indulge in . Maybe in a hotel bar? There are masses of glitzy hotels around where you are staying - Meurice, Ritz, Crillon... even the Hôtel du Louvre has carpet in its bar I think. But again, let me ponder the question.

Thanks again and that's a great idea about hotel bars / foyers on the carpet front! Please do post any more ideas that you have and on restaurants too - we have 2 lunches and 2 dinners!!