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Post by lagatta on Jan 25, 2010 13:25:05 GMT
There is really an example where I could easily MAKE a good couscous for 7,50€ par convive, but of course I'm not charging my own labour time, cooking, preparing the vegetables, shopping for lamb or whatever, making little salads...
Lamb neck is nice...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2010 10:38:21 GMT
Well yes, of course. In the French restaurant business you have to charge double the cost of the food elements and four times the cost of the wine in order to break even on labor, rent, utilities, taxes, etc.
Actually, I'm thinking that some of that cheap couscous might be good to buy takeaway as a base to which one could add some good meat.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 26, 2010 12:34:10 GMT
Doubt it contains the proverbial seven vegetables either. I usually dislike cooked carrots, (I add them to couscous too for the colour and for people who like them) and with just carrots and turnips, they are hard to avoid).
(A Moroccan carrot salad with fresh citrus juice and almond slivers, now we're talking carrots!)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2010 14:06:34 GMT
Just reminding myself to update this one of these days!
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Post by bazfaz on Jun 30, 2010 20:42:23 GMT
And you have tempted us to come on and see the update before you have done it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2010 11:12:01 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Oct 16, 2010 12:43:45 GMT
Les quartiers?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2010 20:27:14 GMT
All but the last one were in the 1st arrondissement. The last one is the café across from my apartment in the 18th.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2010 10:57:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2011 12:07:41 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Mar 12, 2011 16:22:44 GMT
You know I love the slates! Also was nice to read and practice some French! Beautiful Kerouac. Cheers  Mich |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2011 21:28:44 GMT
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Post by mockchoc on Apr 6, 2011 6:48:38 GMT
Like Mich I loved trying to work out what the menu was saying. I did rather well and ate very well in Paris but not sure not sure about the prices. I prefer not to look at that and eat what I want. Glad I got to be there three times in one trip  Loved it there. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2011 21:31:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2011 12:26:08 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 13, 2011 12:50:43 GMT
My limited French suggest some nice meals.
And which do you recommend?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2011 5:21:10 GMT
I really would have a hard time choosing if they were all competing on the same menu.  |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Oct 14, 2011 14:46:56 GMT
I'd jump a the Tunisian restaurant menu, starting with the Brik a l'oeuf.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2011 19:36:16 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Dec 15, 2011 19:58:49 GMT
Well that more than cheered me up! Thanks K! Cheers, Mich |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2011 20:37:52 GMT
Great! I wish that I had been able to eat at one of those places.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 17:14:24 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Apr 4, 2012 17:54:01 GMT
Cheers!
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Post by fumobici on Apr 4, 2012 18:32:15 GMT
Mmmmm, that queu[e] de lotte sounds like the thing even if I'm not a huge sauce béarnaise with fish fan.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2012 17:13:59 GMT
Personally, I hope that luminous panels will never replace restaurant slates, but this technique used by the Flunch cafeteria chain is probably very useful to people who do not speak a word of French. Naturally, the pictures are changed every day as the menu changes. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2012 11:53:19 GMT
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Post by Breeze on May 8, 2012 12:47:21 GMT
Philadelphie? Do they mean penne with cream cheese, crevettes et basilic? If it’s really the gummy cream cheese brand we grew up with, that can’t be good.
What else could it be? I rack my brain to think of something other than hoagies or cheese steak or Philadelphia style ice cream which would indicate an actual cooking style or ingredient from Philadelphia. None of these seems right to accompany pasta.
Maybe it’s topped with brotherly love?
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2012 12:56:06 GMT
Philadephia cream cheese was introduced to France last year, but an article that I read about said that it was "completely different from the American version to correspond to local taste." I have not had the opportunity to verify this myself.
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Post by lagatta on May 9, 2012 1:36:30 GMT
There are quite a few spelling errors on the boards. I'd just love a brik right now. There is a little hole-in-the-wall resto some blocks east of my house (certainly walkable but not next door, and if one is lazy it is direct by bus) called Rose des sables that makes lovely briks. It is also an "apporter votre vin" unknown in commercial French restauration but a godsend here as our wine prices are very inflated (local monopoly, and stranger, much higher than in neighbouring Ontario - the answer seems to be that Ontarians drink a fair amount of hyper-profitable spirits, while les QuébécoisEs consume mostly wine and beer.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2012 12:48:34 GMT
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Loved it there.
