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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 20, 2020, 03:29:54 PM »

Hi,

I'm going to be visiting Paris later this week, I had a few questions.

• I'll be staying at the Hyatt Du Louvre, has anyone stayed there recently and could share their experience?
• Do we know if the trains are functioning properly? is there a place to check? or will I just have to wait until I get there?
• For Shabbat food, I found a website that delivers called "La box de Chabbat" under chabad hashgocha. Has anyone tried this?

thanks

For La Box de Shabbath, the owner is a friend so I checked with him and it’s indeed glatt, you can contact him at contact@laboxdechabbat.com if you need the menu in English and want to get more details.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 20, 2020, 11:48:00 AM »

Thank you!
For coffee and croissants (and other bakery items), what would you recommend that is closest to the Louvre? 
Are there places that are open motzei Shabbat? maybe a pizza place or similar?

For breakfast I would recommend Le XXV they have two places in Paris. After shabbath for Halavi you can do Inte Caffé (no pizzas, but maybe the best Halavi in Paris.) if you want Pizzas you have Il Conte (ok), Maestro and Motorino (napolitan pizza). Motorino is really good but really small place and Maestro usually crowded so you would have to book before coming in.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 20, 2020, 11:36:19 AM »

Glatt kosher only.
I'm also looking for a nice fleishig place to go Thursday evening for dinner. My wife would like to go to Kavod, but it is my understanding that it's not Glatt.

Kavod is not Glatt but might have Glatt meat, you have to call/ask the machgiah. Or you can go to Bassar Paris 17ème which is Beth Din halak Beth Yossef.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 20, 2020, 11:11:16 AM »

Hi,

I'm going to be visiting Paris later this week, I had a few questions.

• I'll be staying at the Hyatt Du Louvre, has anyone stayed there recently and could share their experience?
• Do we know if the trains are functioning properly? is there a place to check? or will I just have to wait until I get there?
• For Shabbat food, I found a website that delivers called "La box de Chabbat" under chabad hashgocha. Has anyone tried this?

thanks

Subway strike is pretty much over, you can get infos on the RATP website, but you should be good to go.
I sometimes buy some salads from La Box de Shabbath they are pretty good, I would definitely recommend it. Are you looking to get Glatt kosher meat or regular Beth Din is ok?

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 17, 2020, 01:13:47 AM »

Any restaurants around PHP that i can order with uber eats the 1 that comes up when searching kosher dosen't look kosher at all

Send me the list by PM or here and I’ll tell you which are kosher or not.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 03:00:18 PM »

Bassar pics please

I’ll do it next time. I’ll also get more details on Le Bazar and pictures

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 02:47:56 PM »

The owner of Inte Caffée and Bassar is the same. When he opened Bassar he wanted to keep his customers from Inte, so he went Glatt/Rav Katz as many of his customers at Inte were only eating Glatt.

The issue he had was that he had too many restrictions on vegetables, fruits and product he could buy. So he switched to Beth Din Halak Beth Yossef (Glatt) and he was the first in Paris.
I don’t know the exact differences but I’ll ask him next time to understand.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 02:39:50 PM »

That’s true so if Beth din halavi is ok for you then regular Beth din with glatt meat should be ok unless there is an issue with restaurant cooking both glatt and not glatt meat

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 02:36:17 PM »

Heh.
Are there any issues eating glatt meat made with non-glatt keilim for someone makpid on glatt?

The thing is that glatt and halak Beth yossef have more restrictions on food than just meat. For example in France, when a restaurant is glatt they can’t serve certain type of fruits and vegetables. So it’s really just about meat but it’s more than that. I would need to check with a rabbi here to tell you exactly what’s different between Beth din and Beth din halak/glatt apart from meat.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 02:34:07 PM »

le kavod has glatt too?

They have regular Beth din but they sometimes has glatt meat. Veal is always glatt, but other meats are sometimes glatt but not always.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 01:47:23 PM »

It requires halak Beth yossef meat which is the same as glatt yes.

Bassar ( Paris 17ème) is the first restaurant to have this certification.

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 01:40:31 PM »

Generally not considered acceptable for meat as they don't require glatt. But speak to the mashgiach.

@Dan Badatz paris now offers a halak beth yossef Hechsher. It’s written directly on the Certification.
You can have a regular certification or a halak one. Both are Beth Din( now Badatz) but it’s different than restaurant with regular Badatz serving halak meat. 

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 01:36:01 PM »

Hechsher? Glatt?

It’s Beth Din Paris but they might have glatt meat ...

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 07:04:46 AM »

Really good, I forgot about that one and it's my favorite halavi in Paris 

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Destination Guides And Trip Planning / Re: Paris Master Thread

« on: January 16, 2020, 06:47:39 AM »

You have Kavod, they have a great lunch menu for 20 euros. If not they are plenty of options in the 16th or 17th district. Bozen Iena, Bozen Villiers if you like sushi, hbk burger, villa k, il conte, maesto, motorino or Iossa for Italian/ pizzas.

Honestly depending on what you feel like for lunch you have options not that far