The Blue Train, Paris


	The Blue Train, Paris

mickfinn

2-10-2008 12:22 PM

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paris, railway, restaurant

mickfinn says:

Le Train Bleu is a far cry from Paris' crowded, noisy brasseries where clients have to squeeze in between tiny bistro tables. And its priceless ambience is well worth a splurge, at least once.

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In fact, the restaurant is considered one of Paris' best preserved examples of that lavish fin de siecle architectural design</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907">The restaurant is inside the Gare de Lyon train station</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907">The Gare de Lyon was built as part of the building program for the Paris exhibition of 1900, along with the glass-domed Grand Palais and Petit Palais off the Champs Elysees. The restaurant, known as the Buffet, was inaugurated in 1901 and later took its current name from the luxury train that transported wealthy Parisians to the French Riviera</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/799993B8-8CA3-406B-AF01-B313B216433F" alt="Murals adorn the ceiling of Le Train Bleu in Paris' Gare de Lyon." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907">Murals adorn the walls and ceiling of Le Train Bleu (The Blue Train)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/B18887D2-5D53-42B9-8913-8F5364246A17" alt="Dining room of Le Train Bleu" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907">Le Train Bleu's elegant dining room, which dates back to 1901</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/B491057D-366E-4961-AE7E-99F6595BD278" alt="The view from the less-expensive, train-motif cafe attached to the formal dining room is no less spe" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16772907">The view from the less-expensive cafe</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/22352BAE-5143-4799-B4BB-892B34E51431/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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