The Two Windmills Café in the 18th

Hey, you recognise this place? No?

Now ? Still no ?

Okay ... now ?

It's the Two Windmills where Amélie Poulain worked as a waitress. I've wanted to eat here for some time since it's a filming location, so I expected a little bit of touristy-ness ... but I didn't quite expect it to be this massive. Some dishes had normal prices which should be expected since Parisians also come here - but not as tourists. I'm sure the regulars were going here before the film came out. But some plates, like the Amélie prix fixe menu ... well .. you could predict that it would be rather expensive.

Since I hadn't eaten lunch, I was starving (a theme which will be repeated in the future) and chose the basic (and normal) prix fixe of either an appetizer and a main dish or a main dish and a dessert, which is the one I picked. Because Amélie Poulain liked crème brûlée (as do I), you had to pay an additional euro to the menu's price. Whatever, I wanted to try it in France.

The service was excellent and very quick. The server, facing a multitude of tourists, took them in stride and, as far as I could tell, didn't mock the Asian tourists who wanted to take a picture with the sign of Amélie's giant face which happened to be next to me. I, on the other hand, had no qualms in looking at them like they were idiots.

My food was delicious, but I don't know if that's because it was actually delicious or because I was really hungry.

The crème brûlée wasn't bad, but I wouldn't say that it was worth the extra euro.

I thought about coming back after my class ended (while I lived with my friend) to see if the food was actually as delicious as I thought, but I'm not sure if I could deal with the tourists again, and in the end, I didn't return : Montmartre just wasn't easily accessible from the suburb in which my friend lived. Maybe next time ...