"He drinks quite a lot. He enjoys eating, especially home-style cooking. He loves stews—meatballs with sorrel are one of his favorite dishes," Simenon writes about his Inspector. Not to forget: choucroute and andouillette. For lunch, Maigret prefers to go home, where Madame Maigret has cooked for him, or, if the investigation doesn't allow it, to the Brasserie Dauphine. It's frequented primarily by police officers, judges, and prosecutors from the nearby Palais de Justice. After work, Maigret sometimes stops by for a glass of beer. When his investigations take him out of Paris, he also enjoys a pastis, and in his later years, a dry white wine, preferably from the Loire Valley.