(L'As du Fallafel)
I arrived in Paris yesterday! After 15 hours of air travel, 2 hours of sleep, and a loopy cab ride, I made it to Danielle and Adrian's apartment, and then managed to stay awake until MIDNIGHT! (2 or 3 coffees and bike rides and Paris sights kept me going.)
Of course, it's pretty magical. We jumped on city bikes and rode into the Marais, where we walked around for a while, checking out windows and popping into stores. (The Annick Goutal perfume shop - incroyable!)
When snack time arrived we went for the 5euro fantasia at L'As du Fallafel, the platonic ideal of a falafel sandwich. Layers of crispy-creamy falafels, yogurt sauce(sauce blanche), marinated shredded red and green cabbage, julienned cucumber, chopped tomato, hummus, delicious oily roasted eggplant slices, and a big dollop of harissa all married to form the platonic ideal of a falafel sandwich. I was particularly impressed with the conscientious layering process, which gave changing but always perfectly-balanced bite vignettes as you moved towards the bottom.
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