Paris: What is a good restaurant near the Eiffel Tower with an English-friendly menu?

I first read your question as “a good restaurant in the Eiffel Tower” and I wonder: What does he mean: which one? There is only one in there! But re-reading helped. So, yeah, The Jules Verne, on the Second floor of the famous Tower certainly matches anyone’s idea of exclusive, romantic and memorable — but it might be a bit above your budget: check for that. Do book the table months in advance for that one, especially a Saturday night; do mention it is your honey moon: they will make an effort, to find you a table, and during the dinner, and certainly enjoy that kind of publicity. Around the Eiffel Tower, most restaurants will have English-speaking menus, or at least waiters that will accomodate you. As you have presumably noticed, most English words for fancy food are French already — and once you found what you liked, pointing is always the best option. I would recommend, if the restaurant offers the option, to choose a “Menu dégustation” or an equivalent: it’s a selection of whatever the chef feels like making, often in small portions and more dishes than the usual three courses. Ask for it when booking. If your wedding is in any way typical, you might and your sweetheart certainly will have had spent entire months of doing nothing but taking decision after decision about any possible detail. The two luxury you will be looking for are: sleep, and (good) decisions made for you. There are no bad choices in restaurants in that price range (apart from allergies, of course but you will be reminded to mention those). Plus, especially if you are newly-weds, that kind of menu puts you on the (very rare) good side of the chef; he might even do something he recently thought of, outside of the usual menu, that will be in season, very unexpected and perfectly suited for the occasion: if could be heart-shaped (ok, that's corny) or demand that you feed each other… I don't know: I'm no chef. But ask for it. All that said, a partial selection: Les Ombres, the restaurant on top of the new Musée du Quai Branly is also above the roof tops, exclusive and in your price range. Plus, you’ll have a pretext to visit a museum dedicated to Prime arts, which always features interesting mating rituals. Probably over-advertised, like the Jules Verne, but it has a story, and that is what you are looking for. The best location to see the Eiffel tower glitter (or sparkle, or shine, or scintillate: not sure of my English on that one) every hour at night. Le Café de l’Homme is a bit further, on the other side of the Seine, and could compete on the view; the food is nice; the walk up the Trocadéro stairs would make sense if she doesn’t wear higher-than-usual heels. Le Florimond doesn't have the view, but if you are here for typical French dishes, that’s the place; it unexplicably has more Anglo- patrons than locals, but take that as a good thing. “Grand’Mère” means Grand-mother, and that’s all you need to know about the menu. I'm not sure Jean-François Piege is still open, but they are nearby, part of the secret restaurant trend: you have to book; finding the place is impossible on your own; the setting is incredible and the food is both unheard of and rather scarce, but you can have dozens of dishes; I also know Hidden Kitchen, which is quite further, but details are private. They would be perfect for honey-mooners because you meet (English-speaking) new faces, that will both respect your privacy, and offer that social glimpse that you might miss after so much interactions. There are litteraly dozens of great restaurants in that area (the most exclusive in Paris, most Ministers are there); generally tiny, most of them in rue Saint-Dominique or around; all a great, most won’t accomodate English-speakers as well as those above, but they are certainly worth the laugh at the expense of your accent. Les Cocottes is the most original of them, where they serve everything in cast iron casseroles; they have English menus. If you want to feel the bad eye on you when you arrive, really feel it, L’Ami Jean is perfect for that. It's a bit away from the others; the charcuteries corses (pork-based delicatessen from Corsica) are to die for, but they like to welcome new clients the Corsican way: with heavy suspicion first, and big chuckle once they proved how gullible you are about all the horror stories on how they treat ‘continentals’. If you survive that, no restaurants can scare you anymore. Thiou and Benkay are nearby and serve great food but, respectively, Thai and Japanese cuisine, so I couldn’t recommend those to foreigners who came to Paris for the French food. Sorry not to be sure to adapt to your price range: honestly, what you pay in restaurants depends heavily on the wine — and you might be tea-totaller, pregnant or wine ignorant, happy with sparkling water, or in the mood for libations and champagne… So I selected restaurant with dishes between €20 and €40, i.e. meals below your price range. However, one good bottle can triple that easily. Champagne certainly would. All phone numbers are easy to find on their website, on Google Maps, Yelp or in the Yellow Pages (http://pagesjaunes.fr) I'm just lazy tonight.