My wife and I jokingly once ate French onion soup EVERYWHERE we went one trip to Paris. We concluded that the best was here in May of 2015. I just returned from an aborted dream holiday there and thought for my last night I'd head over to rue Cler for a bowl. When it came it was dark brown....way darker than the previous year. I tasted it and it was AWFUL. Just awful. I immediately went inside and was told that it was the same recipe as ever. I told them I didn't think so and they shrugged it off and I had to pay for this "box mix" tasting soup. Like it had too much faux onion soup mix. Just bad. So... we won't return later this month when we go back.