Judith,
Hope you had a wonderful time! Hope you and the other experienced Paris travelers (I don't think there are really many tourists on this board) might extend some advice for our upcoming trip.
As I've said Gretchen has been recalled to active duty and is stationed at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. I'm taking the kids over for a two week visit this June and they wanted to see Paris. It's quick trip not doing real justice to anywhere (3 days Paris, 3 in Garmisch with stops at Ulm and Rothenburg on the way and a couple of "day trips" from Landstuhl (up the Mosel Valley, Speyer, Trier)).
My question is has anyone had any experience at either La Fermette du Sud Ouest or Bofinger restauraunts? Both show up in various guidebooks as anything from "Great Value" and "a Parisian institution" to a blunt "Don't go there!" I'm hoping to get away for 40E per person. I hope I'm not totally daft. We're staying at a hotel in the 3rd arr. near Pompidou Center; so, I don't think anything is terribly far away.
Any help, suggestions, and/or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Andi, I will keep your post about the Flea markets a secret though or we'll lose Gretchen for the whole visit!

Greg