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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 27, 2018 12:39:56 GMT
Mussels and fries last night... and lots of beer.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 29, 2018 0:19:51 GMT
Mussels and fries too. Following couscous pizza and followed by lobster and entrecôte. When you give half your lobster to one daughter and get half your beef from another daughter you end up with a surf and turf. Followed by farigoule. Provence alcohol served as digestive and supposed to help you sleep. Means thyme in Provençal. Didnt help to sleep. Lobster was great. Meat was Great.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2018 5:28:37 GMT
I went to McDonald's for the first time in years because it was right next to the hotel. I found that I still don't like hamburgers (which I loved up to about age 25 and then I abandoned them forever).
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2018 8:14:22 GMT
Seriously?! That's like someone saying he doesn't like seafood because he had fish sticks in the school cafeteria.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2018 9:30:59 GMT
I love fish sticks, from the school cafeteria or anywhere else.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 29, 2018 11:02:34 GMT
Doesn't McDo in France have thing other than burgers on the menu?
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Post by whatagain on Jul 29, 2018 11:06:19 GMT
Pc Wraps and nuggets. Also beurk.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2018 11:27:58 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jul 29, 2018 11:54:32 GMT
I tried to look at their menu, but got this response:
Le contenu de cette page n’est pas disponible depuis votre position géographique.
Can't say I'm surprised that their salads are strange. Sweet dressings?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2018 12:32:45 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jul 29, 2018 15:19:24 GMT
J'ai des amis savoyards... ils sont rentrés au pays. Pardon, English! Friends from the Savoie, have moved back home. A lilting accent, not exactly like the Swiss, who "lilt" in German, French and Italian, and that other language...
Another thing that annoys me about fast-foods is the amount of waste each meal produces. Those clear plastic bowls, which would be tempered glass or porcelain in more traditional restaurants or cafeterias.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 30, 2018 7:06:07 GMT
Have a good tartiflette with your friends Lagatta ...
I had pizza yesterday. Of course. We are in france. We walked 1 h 30 min on the 'sentier des douaniers'. A path that goes along the sea. Up and down. Round and round. Lovely. Then it was time to eat. Marie was a little tired so I went back to fetch the car. Parked 2.4 kms - 1.5 miles. Following the road it took me 15 min to reach it.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 30, 2018 11:46:17 GMT
I was wondering what you were referring to... My friends are in the Savoie now. I'm in Montréal. I do know how to make tartiflette- it is delicious but very rich. Made ratatouille yesterday and have enough for several days.
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Post by rikita on Jul 30, 2018 23:39:55 GMT
last night it was seafood pasta for me (a mixed meat plate for mr. r. and fries for agnes) at a konoba in dubrovnik, at a place near the walls in a quieter street - so not as outrageously expensive as right in the busier old town places, and i thought it was not bad ... the day before i had mussels in a more central place, that was a starter but as they served bread with it and they were in a tomato-y sauce that was good for dipping the bread into, it was enough as a full meal ... the days before that i can't really name everything anymore ...
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Post by whatagain on Aug 1, 2018 17:22:24 GMT
Today was schnitzel. Panes with an egg on top onions and patatoes. And sauce. A lot of sauce. I managed to leave 80 pc of the patatoes. Tomorrow should be couscous for lunch.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 2, 2018 13:19:42 GMT
I'd love to spend time in Dubrovnik. One of the many places I've only been through quickly, with friends from the Frioul region in Italy, not far from there. I was at a summer seminar for "Italianists" in Udine. There were many participants from what was then Yugoslavia. The food sounds good too.
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Post by rikita on Aug 3, 2018 23:49:30 GMT
we only had two days, which was by far not enough, didn't even climb the hill (nor take the cable car) to get a view from above ... i thought it was nice, had been warned that it is quite expensive and very full of tourists. while that was kind of true, it wasn't as bad as it had been made out. we found affordable restaurants even in the old town, as long as they weren't right in the main road, and well, we only did a few select sights, had they been cheaper i might have insisted on more ... and i thought it had a nice and relaxed atmosphere, croatia in general seemed to me an easy country to travel, most people are quite friendly ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2018 21:46:58 GMT
I had sautéed spiced Chinese cabbage followed by szechuan style fried fish, just as spicy as promised, with steamed rice. My friend started with fried prawns and moved along to beef loc lac with sticky rice. She is as thin as a rail and ate more than I did. I think she also got more than her share of the wine. I hate her.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 18:09:38 GMT
Fresh grilled local swordfish, grilled asparagus, fresh local tomatoes, fresh basil with mozzarella. Chilled rose (Argentenian I believe). Espresso
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2018 13:43:47 GMT
Another steak tartare last night, which is actually too often my choice in restaurants because then I don't have to worry about them cooking it properly. Unfortunately, before that we had a cheese and cold cut platter which was immense and delicious and we didn't even really need a main dish. The wine helped.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 22, 2018 18:48:49 GMT
A good Daint Joseph I hope. Tonight I am having Thai food. I looked for something not touristy but am smack in the middle of the 18th. 2 blocks from rue Ledoux. So here I am chez Meng (variation of Min ?). Pictures of pascal légitimiste dining here in 97. Of jean Amadou (how could I forget this guy !) Véronique Jeannot (pause café. Was a terrible series but I was in line ce with her like everybody at the time£. Jean Giraud etc. All good french. Well my chicken soup with coconut milk was delicious. Mob gun follows. What else ? Singha beer. They have bad taste in beers apart from this and Tsingtao. Asahi (like in AGC : asahi glass corp : Berk) or worse still Heineken : Dutch piss. Bah. Having a good solitary meal.
Friday will be lobster at Cavalaire mon village (a caviste Doing some cooking) then micocoulier at Gassin then Camille somewhere near croix valmer. Hard life.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2018 19:29:27 GMT
I've just put some McNuggets in the mail for you, Whatagain.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 22, 2018 23:21:37 GMT
Whatagain, you could have gone up to rue de Torcy, also in the 18th...
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Post by rikita on Aug 22, 2018 23:52:43 GMT
not a proper nice restaurant, more a kind of cafeteria style place for lunch with some colleagues - we decided to go to a nearby burrito place ... my burrito was with chicken and quinoa and of course beans and other thigns ... was quite nice and very filling ...
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Post by rikita on Sept 2, 2018 1:10:20 GMT
was mr. r's birthday today (yesterday, it's after midnight), and he wanted to go to a nearby italian place he likes. turns out the place has closed down, there's a vietnamese place now, so we decided to stay there. had "vietnamese pizza" for a starter which was quite nice, and then he had something with duck that he liked a lot, and i had a soup with beef and noodles and vegetables that wasn't bad either ... the waiter and owner came by quite often to see if we were happy with the food and to recommend things and to ask if we will be coming back, quite friendly but it was getting a bit much - i suppose they are still quite excited as the place just opened ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2018 17:12:05 GMT
Well, that was a nice result of what could have been a big disappointment! Sounds as though you all might be going back. And yeah, they'll probably calm down after a while.
Yesterday I ate at a German restaurant of which I'd previously been unaware. It's in a very pleasant setting, upstairs over a courtyard and the prices were way more than reasonable, with the set meals even including artesanal beer. I had "white sausage" which came with a pasta salad and very nice fries and some excellent bread -- way too carby! Why not either sauerkraut or green salad to replace the pasta? The two sausages came scored down the middle & loaded with a cheese sauce. The sauce was quite heavy and a depressing example of lily-gilding. There was a little cup of what I think was thinned down Russian dressing in the middle of the plate. The waitress was surprised that I wanted it taken away and replaced with mustard. One friend had a dish of salad and mixed vegetables with sausage cut up in it, which she said was good. The other friend had a reuben sandwich which she requested without the Russian dressing. Having sampled that restaurant's version of Russian dressing, I feel that was a wise choice on her part. We all had coffee afterward, which was quite good, and two of us had sacher torte. It was an okay chocolate cake, but if it was sacher torte I am Angela Merkel.
Griping aside, I'd probably go back -- maybe asking for the same plate, but with my suggestions incorporated. The cheese sauce definitely has to go.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 2, 2018 19:59:29 GMT
It sounds like a caricature of old-school German food (with some utterly unnatural features) like the caricatures of Mexican food on offer in other countries. Too bad, as it sounds as if there were some nice items.
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Post by mich64 on Sept 3, 2018 1:25:52 GMT
A few nights ago, my friend and I went out for dinner. We both ordered a cobb salad with a grilled chicken breast which was good but our dessert was better. It was a cornbread baked in a cast iron skillet, the bottom of the skillet had peaches, blackberries and a caramel sauce and there was also vanilla ice cream on top.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2018 2:00:22 GMT
LaGatta, the person who suggested the restaurant said that the cook is a German woman. I was quite prepared for one of those standard heavy German restaurant meals, but the classic trio of sausage, potatoes, & sauerkraut seems light and dainty compared to what I was served. So how many times have you tried to duplicate that since then, Mich? It sounds sort of like an upside-down cake that was left right-side up. Also sounds delicious.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 3, 2018 6:20:53 GMT
We had disappointing meals in high end restaurants. First in southern france where we had bouillabaisse 'chez Camille' which used to be an institution. The bouillabaisse was ok. No more. My wife took a fish that was good but without anything fancy aside. Service was extensively bad. Patatoes came first then liquid then we waited 10 min for the fish. Waiter forgot thus and that. Was long to come etc. Still they charge more than 100 euros per person. The setting was spectacular. On the seaside an old splendid house in a cape.
Second was in paris. Good and expensive. Not one bottle of wine under 40 euros. Good but not worth the money.
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