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Le Danton
Okay, so it's not the trendiest place in Paris. But they’ll remember your name and they won't gasp at you for ordering a cafe crème instead of a cafe au lait, because they speak old school French - the kind of French you hear in movies where 15 year-old Americans go on foreign exchanges and arrive is some Provence to an overweight French mother who shovels food down their throat. And not low fat food at that. You won't hear much English in this cafe, though it's close to the popular metro Odeon, which delivers you to this happening area on the left bank not far form the famed rue de Buci that brings in shoppers, students and artists. Danton somehow avoids becoming a tourist trap and is instead filled with locals, on their way to work, on their way home, a place to grab a café before seeing a movie at one of the three movie theatres near by; but I used it as for a warm place to get out of the rain. Whenever, I'd find myself caught at Odeon without an umbrella, I'd duck into Le Danton where I could warm myself with a cappuccino (their specialty) exploding with foam-- no really, stick a candle in it and it would pass for a birthday cake--and I’d look out their expansive windows and watch people get soaking wet standing outside the metro waiting for their lovers running late, friends and co-workers and think, I’m so lucky I know about this place so that I don’t have to wait in the rain. And isn’t it lucky all of them don’t know about this place so that my table, on the mezzanine, alongside the mirror, is available. With a cappuccino waiting.
KIRSTEN A. GUENTHER as a musical theatre writer has written book for Alive at Ten (2008 Richard Rodgers Award, 2007 Disney/ASCAP workshop), Out of My Head (Looking Glass Theatre Audience Choice Award). She has penned lyrics and book for Little Miss Fix-it, Soon Never (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab 2006), The Birthday Present. One of The Dramatist magazine’s "50 writers to Watch," she is the recipient of the Margo Lion Award and author of Bonjour Paris’ "The Sexy Expat" (2003-05). BFA Acting, USC; MFA Musical Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch. She is a proud member of ASCAP and the Dramatist Guild.
