“Do you live in Paris?”

Off to the Bastille district for dinner.
The Bastille used to be a prison for Political Prisoners that was stormed by the common people in the Revolution of 1789. You’d figure that it would be preserved or something like that.
Nope. There’s a memorial. On an island. In a traffic circle (big). So much for my idea of “storming the gates”. If I tried to storm the statue, I’d get hit by a car but not before being pinched for jaywalking by all the cops around…
Bastille is also a district that’s has decent restaurants. We went to one of the recommendations in the DK Paris guide. The food was excellent, the service was good and the average age of the staff/manager was 28 or so. We wound up eating a LOT and talking a lot and hanging around a lot even after we finished our meal. Just like everyone else in the restaurant.
The coolest thing was, as we were leaving, the manager asks us, “Do you live in Paris? Because we’re having a customer appreciation party on the 19th, can you attend?”
Sounds like one helluva party, according to the flyer.