O-Chateau offers wine & cheese tasting lunches inside the old wine cellars that were built to store wine during the reign of Louis XV. We were greeted into a long, small, and narrow room by our sommelier, Sebastian and seated ourselves at a u-shaped table among 12 other people. Sebastian went into great detail about how Champagne is made, the effects that the "terroir" has on the wine, how wine is classified in France (AOC's), how to "read" the wine before tasting it (i.e. determining the climate by looking at the color of the wine), and much more. I was impressed by how knowledgeable he was about wine but what impressed me more was how passionate he was about wine. For our tasting, we had a Montmarthe Champagne, a Domaine de la Garenne (Sancerre from Loire), a Domaine Venot (Cote Chalonnaise from Burgundy), a Chateau Lanessan (Haut Medo from Bordeaux), and a Domaine du Grand Veneur (Cotes du Rhone from Rhone) along with a plateful of cheese and a selection of sliced meat.
La Maison du Chocolat is a chocolatier we've heard about over and over again. They have a location inside the Louvre so we picked up some chocolates before heading to a nearby cafe for coffee. The "Zagora" was my favorite; it was a mint-infused chocolate in which you could taste the fresh mint (not like the artificial mint flavor in most candies and choclates).
Being tired of French food, we ventured off to the 13th for Thai... we were too hungry and ended up at Hippopotamus instead. The service was horrible, but the food was good (hunger is the best spice!).
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