We're staying down the road at Hôtel De La Porte Dorée and have been doing our best to sample all the restaurants in the area. So far this one is the best and the service matched the food!
My stepdad's French is...limited (not that mine is great, but I can bumble my way through), so it was great to see that they even had menus in English which simplified ordering. I went with a Tramway burger and I'd actually have to put it in my top 5 burgers I've had from around the world, which is pretty high praise. I'm not really a whole wheat bread kind of guy since it tends to be pretty dry, at least in the US, but the whole wheat bun was fantastic and moist and the bleu cheese on the burger was ridiculously good...it was cooked perfectly to medium rare as requested. Pretty amazing, since you don't really come to Paris for burgers, but I walked for about 5 miles yesterday and wanted a caloric overload.
He had a smoked salmon pasta which I ended up eating about a third of (ok, I was hungry...don't judge me) and that was great as well. The mousse au chocolat was also magnifique - we had some earlier in the day at a restaurant near the Musée d'Orsay, and Au Tramway's was way better - thick and rich and oh so good. read more