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We ate at one restaurant in the Marais, Ma Bourgogne on the Place des Vosges. But we only had salad and wine for a late lunch, so I can't speak to the menu. On Sunday there's classical music at the Place, something to keep in mind if it's warm and sunny. It would be nice to sit outside and be serenaded.

Here's a thread from Fodor's about Marais restaurants.
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threadselect.jsp?fid=2&tid=34489651&start=0&dirtyBit=1

It's from 11/02, but it would be easy enough to check whether they're still open. La Guirlande de Julie seems to pop up on lots of threads.

When do you leave?

Big trauma here in my corner of the world.

My local republican club is having a $100 a head fundraising dinner and our speaker is US Congressman Mike Rogers.

Bush will also be here tonight.

So Rogers has cancelled at the last minute leaving us with no speaker. The club president told Rogers that he couldn't cancel or else he could speak at the dinner first and then see Bush. The State Party then tried to bribe the club president with a ticket to be on stage with Bush tonight and he turned it down. Good for him. Then the party offered free tickets ( all tickets to see Bush tonight are free BTW) to all people who are to attend the dinner.

Nope, most people at the dinner are well over 50 years old and don't want to stand out in 30 degree weather for 5 hours to see a Rally for Bush.

So it looks like the Congressman who we worked so hard to put in office and bring to our dinner is blowing us off. This will be remembered. He can easily speak at the dinner at 6 and then speak with Bush at 9.

Now my only problem is that I am supposed to be on stage with Bush tonight, but I have been told that I have special VIP tickets and will be close to Bush but not on stage, so now I have more calls to make today to find out what this mess is all about and why no one in the Bush campaign knows what's going on. This is what happens when you put 20 something's in charge.

And we wonder why we lose elections.

We're leaving tomorrow afternoon, but won't spend any time in Paris until 5/10. I think we're going to be fairly spontaneous by the time we get there, after following a detailed itinerary in Champagne and Lorrain the first part of the trip. Since we didn't do it last time, however, I plan to visit Montmartre (actually, the nearby fabric shops).