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^ touché!
Joke aside, fate you might be right on the fact that we take it for granted, but access to good food makes the bad one more obvious, and they're often the same price.
By bad we mostly mean food the restaurant bought in containers, plastic bags or frozen, and advertises as cooked in their kitchen, for ridiculous prices.
Or nasty tartines/croque monsieur and greasy fries, chinese-owned japanese restaurants, institutions you wonder how they're still in business and so on. Truth is tourists are easily pleased and fooled here.This does represent the vast majority of restaurants in Paris, including trendy ones (Costes). When I lived in NYC I was shocked at how much good food there was.
This being said, once you can spot those places (gonzalle offered some good hints), you're left with plenty of good places.
So far, Le Fooding website I posted above has managed to remain the best index for those good places.
I have eaten at places they recommend that I found were nothing special or not to my taste, some have become less good over time (cook replaced etc), but none so far was to be put in the bad restaurant category.- ps i say tourists but plenty of locals also eat at places I would never set foot inspl33nidoru