My lodging this time is right beside the Sorbonne, and a 7-minute walk from there, after passing the Collège de France and turning right onto a nearby street, is an Italian restaurant rated 4.9 on Google Maps and 5.0 on Trip Advisor: “I Lazzari” (44 Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, 75005 Paris). I arrived after 9 on Saturday night, and the crowd milling around in front of the restaurant showed just how popular it was. Given its location in the Latin Quarter, there were many young people who looked like students.
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It was full, but because I was dining alone, they managed to fit me into a small open seat after a 5-minute wait.
For my meal, I ordered spaghetti pomodoro, the dish left unfinished at the Italian restaurant in Nodame Cantabile (11).
As I ate while drinking spumante, a young couple seated diagonally to my left each put one end of a strand of spaghetti in their mouth, slurped toward each other, and kissed. Yes, exactly this. Bella Notte.
Directly in front of me was a group of 12 people—perhaps a group dating party. But none of them were as lovey-dovey as that couple. Maybe they had not had enough wine yet. Everyone was ordering pizza. The Neapolitan pizza looked delicious.
Looking around, almost everyone seemed to be a student. In the back on the left was a slightly older couple who looked like professors, but even they were younger than me. Without question, I was the oldest person in the restaurant!
After I finished eating and was drinking limoncello in place of dessert, the group of 12 handed an iPhone to the cameriere 1 and asked him to take their picture. The only angle from which all 12 of them could fit was from my seat. So the cameriere came over to my seat, and we discussed the angle as he took the picture.
It happened to be Halloween season. It was a pleasant, breezy night.
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