Anne-Solène and Benjamin always know where to take us. Our meal at Chez Gladine was another hit, featuring delicious, affordable food from the southwest of France and Basque country, coupled with a sighting of Comédie-Française star Michel Vuillermoz, whose head you can see in profile above. I enjoyed my plate of Brebis with black cherry jam, and David wolfed down his Basque omelet, but if I were to return, I thought, I'd order what Anne-Solène had had: a generous dish of potatoes topped with gloriously bronzed Cantal. And indeed I did just that when we went back for my birthday dinner!

Chez Gladines, 30, rue des 5 Diamants, 75013 Paris
Open daily from 11.30