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You might have only been to higher-end restaurants, and not the "good ol' french" types that are as much about the atmosphere as they are about the food. The kind of thing I could only name as "à la bonne franquette". For a representative sample of the kind of place I'm talking about, try 'Chez Gladines' in the 13th arrondissement.

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I have worn my earplugs (still carried from the flight that morning) in a Paris restaurant where the locals were watching the football.

It was a great atmosphere, but I was glad when the waiter asked us to swap tables to the other room — he rearranged all the noisy people into one room, and the quiet ones into the other.

I’m from a place where “bouchons” is exactly this :P still less loud than any restaurant in the US

> still less loud than any restaurant in the US

Sounds like you might need to try some restaurants in the US. It's more than McDonald's and TGI Fridays.

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