It's an unlikely setting for a chef who made his name with Le Chateaubriand, a vintage bistro with a bohemian bent in the 11th arrondissement, famed for its take-it-or-leave-it, daily-changing, market-driven set menus and championing edgy natural wines.
Meat is available, but it's fish and seafood tapas, hot and cold, that this place is famed for, and tortillitas de camarones (shrimp fritters) above all.
Tsiolkas's work is famed for its vigour, anger and eagerness to tackle sex, drugs and violence.
It is also one that has carved a part in the heart of the Spanish food lover with its devotion to the red tuna (Atlantic bluefin tuna, famed for its rosy flesh) and the red-skinned Retinto cow.
Instead the government insists most are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and classifies them as Bengalis, even though some claim roots before the colonial era – when thousands did arrive – to as far back as the 15th century when the Arakan kingdom was famed for its cosmopolitan openness.
The cinema was opened in 1933 and is famed for being the first movie theatre in India to have air-conditioning and an underground car park.
11.30am: a tipple and tour at the Redlands Estate (or perhaps Sullivans Cove instead) Tasmania is famed for its cheese, wine and, increasingly, whisky.
Milo was famed for his strength, and one of his achievements was that he was able to lift a full-grown bull.
Berlusconi, meanwhile, owner of Italy's three biggest private television channels, sought solace in the arms of Francesca Pascale, a former television showgirl famed for co-singing a ditty with the memorable catchphrase: "If you show a bit of thigh, the ratings go up".
Fertile fields famed for their melons, wheat and barley are now parched wastelands after irrigation canals were destroyed by shelling.
I did not know then, of course, that Richmal Crompton's creation had been famed for his cavalier attitude to life and those who would seek to circumscribe his enjoyment of it ever since he first appeared in 1922.
