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Restaurants and Cafes in France
Eating is one of the great adventures in France; going out to a cafe or
restaurant for a meal or buying the ingredients to cook for yourselves. If
you are Slow Travelers and staying in a vacation rental, you may cook some
of your meals in your "home", but you will still want to experience the restaurants
and cafes.
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Restaurant Reviews |
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Restaurant Reviews: Reviews, by region,
of restaurants and cafes. These reviews are written by other Slow Travelers. |
How to Use Restaurants |
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Restaurant Basics: How the restaurants work
in France. Serving times, when to arrive, how to order, how the menu is
organized, tipping. |
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Sample Restaurant Menu from Paris: The
restaurant menu from Brasserie Balzar in Paris, so you can see how things
are organized and what you can order. |
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Vegetarian: Finding vegetarian meals
in France. You may find some vegetarian items on a menu, but there will
not be many and there may be none. Look for salads, omelets, and simple
pasta dishes. |
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French Menu/Food Glossary:
Translation of French food and menu terms to English. Over 1000 entries. |
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Food for Children and Families:
Finding food for non-adventurous eaters in the restaurants and cafes of
Provence (this is in the Provence travel notes section). |
Cafes, Bars, Tea Salons |
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Cafe Basics: What to expect in cafes/bars
in France, how to order, how to pay, etc. |
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Cafe Menu - Example 1: The
complete menu from Bar des Amis, a cafe in St. Saturnin les Apts (in the
Luberon, in Provence). Descriptions of each item and prices. |
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Cafe Menu - Example 2: The complete menu from Cafe de la Poste in Goult
(in the Luberon, in Provence). |
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Photos of Cafes in Provence |
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Photos of Cafes in Paris |
French Wine |
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Part 1 - Wine Basics: Basic vocabulary,
names and pronunciation of wine regions, types of grapes, reading wine
labels, AOC and appellations. (This page is part language lesson, part
wine lesson.) |
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Part 2 - A Tour of France's Principal
Wine Regions: About the wine and how to read labels for: Bordeaux,
Burgundy, Cotes du Rhone (Rhone Valley), Alsace, Loire Valley, Champagne.
(This page is part language lesson, part wine lesson.) |
Restaurant Lists |
| Restaurants and
Cafes in the Luberon (Slow Travelers' Favorites): A list compiled
on the message board. |
| Edna's Dordogne
Restaurant List: Edna's favorite restaurants in the Dordogne area
of southern France. |
Submit Your Review |
Submit Your Review: Send in
your restaurant review. |
"We ate dinner at Madame Lecomte's restaurant on the far side of the
island. It was crowded with Americans and we had to wait for a place. Some
one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant
on the Paris quais as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty-five
minutes for a table. Bill had eaten at the restaurant in 1918, and right
after the armistice, and Madame Lecomte made a great fuss over seeing him.
"Doesn't get us a table, though," Bill said. "Grand woman, though." "
- - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 1926 - -
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