Bouillon a Go-Go

I stuff myself at four Parisian Belle Époque restaurants

Dining in Art Nouveau Splendor at Bouillon Julien

In the mid- to late 1800s the first restaurants in Paris were born. Much like the large department stores that were coming into fashion at the time, bouillons were large spaces where hundreds of the Parisian bourgeoise could order a meal.

These bouillon employed a unique system of service: One was handed a…