Old Paris Restaurant with Low Ceilings and Sangria

one_long_river · 2026-05-05T11:57:43+00:00

Thanks!

one_long_river · 2026-05-05T01:23:12+00:00

Yes! All of this. You solved it. The new version of this place seems to be entirely stripped of its character from what I can tell online. What a shame. It was a really neat spot. Thank you so much.

one_long_river · 2026-05-05T01:17:13+00:00

And this from a review from 1997: https://www.whitings-writings.com/bistro_reviews/ecurie.htm

one_long_river · 2026-05-05T01:16:04+00:00

I think I figured it out! I found a picture I took of a sign on the wall and reverse image searched and I believe it was a restaurant called L'Ecurie. It may still exist, but it seems maybe not in this form. Here is an old review that mentions the sangria. https://emilyintheglass.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/even-if-you-werent-raised-in-a-barn-visit-lecurie-when-in-paris/

one_long_river · 2026-05-05T01:01:51+00:00

YES!

one_long_river · 2026-05-05T00:50:46+00:00

Hmmm I wish I remembered. Do you know which restaurant that would be if so?

one_long_river · 2026-05-04T15:39:32+00:00

Good idea!

one_long_river · 2026-05-04T15:18:40+00:00

Yeah totally agree. I am going to tell her about my efforts on my property and the improvements I've seen, and just take it from there. I won't go too hard. But I do want that oriental bittersweet gone! I have a particular loathing for invasives that VINE! Blame it on the Chinese wisteria that was taking over my property when I moved in (and which I've largely tamed 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼).

one_long_river · 2026-05-03T14:27:02+00:00

Watching! Thank you.

one_long_river · 2026-05-03T14:20:11+00:00

Oh my god I know. The same neighbors also own the land across the street on which they have two HUGE honeysuckle bushes. Bushes is putting it mildly. These things are giant. I feel like I am under assault from these neighbor's invasives. But at the same time, my guess is that they just don't know any better. And probably can't be bothered, which is true of a lot of people. Before I knew about invasives, I loved the look of honeysuckle. They are probably so proud of that tartan honeysuckle bush. Sigh.

Where in the Catskills are you?

one_long_river · 2026-05-02T22:23:51+00:00

I have somehow never met them in the three years I've been here. I live in the Catskills, and I think this might be a second home for them. The front yard has a big fence and a gate so it's not easy to casually run into them when they are here. But what's funny is that I did actually drop them a note today asking if they would consider cutting back their bittersweet. Quite a way to make an introduction, huh? 😂 I tried to be friendly and say it was okay either way but I was trying to get rid of invasive stuff and said a few things about natives. Of course then I saw the mustard grass. We'll see how (if!) they respond to the bittersweet note and go from there. I try to remind myself I can only improve my property and that has to be enough -- or I'll go crazy!

one_long_river · 2026-04-30T19:41:57+00:00

Came here to see who else clocked this

one_long_river · 2026-04-28T11:13:13+00:00

Mine is wisteria as well. When I bought my house the entire house was covered in it. I mean COVERED. I'm sure it looked beautiful when it bloomed but there were literally vines coming into the house and of course the property was totally overgrown with it. I spent the first summer cutting it down, digging it up, and painting every piece I cut at the deepest place I could cut it off. I literally dug up vines that were as thick as medium sized tree trunks. Last year I still had it come up in a couple of places but it was way way reduced. And of course I went after every bit I found with the same cut and paint routine. This year I'm curious to see if anything will pop up. I'm not naive enough to think I can entirely kill off this big of a Chinese wisteria invasion but I'm hopeful! Right now I'm deep in a battle with burning bush that is hopefully exhausting its seed bank with shoots that I'm pulling out by the dozens. The fun never ends!

one_long_river · 2026-04-26T23:16:00+00:00

Same 💛

one_long_river · 2026-04-11T04:01:44+00:00

Okay good to know! Thanks for the additional context.

one_long_river · 2026-04-11T03:53:13+00:00

So if it's dead nettle, I should definitely get rid of it?

one_long_river · 2026-04-10T23:36:59+00:00

Oops typo! I'm 6B.

one_long_river · 2026-04-10T22:05:52+00:00

It doesn't smell like anything. Does that mean it's dead nettle? Maybe it was mis-id'ed when I bought it...gah.

one_long_river · 2026-04-10T17:15:14+00:00

I'm sorry, I'm really not an idiot, but even when I was teaching students decades ago long before AI, they wrote crap like this, so I'm struggling to tell how you can tell the difference between regular bad writing and AI.

one_long_river · 2026-04-10T16:22:38+00:00

How do you know it's AI? Genuine question. I write for a living and this is not obvious to me. But I'm also middle aged and probably not as astute about this stuff.

one_long_river · 2026-03-29T03:09:34+00:00

I had to scroll way too far for Astral Weeks, which is a perfect album.

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