13 Jan

All the mains at Restaurant Albert were €23, but the menu sounded OK and nothing else around was open except for the sports wine bar. I wasn’t actually that hungry, but we don’t have many days left in France and I want to make the most of my time here. I was tossing up between the veal steak with artichokes and wild mushrooms and the quail stuffed with walnuts on a bed of spicy vegetables. Dad was choosing between the same things or the squid with fish stuffing...

22:26 / France / French / Lyon / Restaurant Albert
13 Jan

After taking photos at Palais de l'Isle (aka vielles prisons) it started to drizzle so we escaped into Crêperie du Château to have lunch. Not many restaurants were open, probably because they were either on their annual holiday or have a weekly closure on Mondays. There were quite a few crêperies and German restaurants. Mum had a set, which included a ham, egg and Emmental galette and a sugar and salted butter crêpe for €9.80. Dad had a crêpe with onions, tomato, herbs and scrambled egg (€6.50) and...

15:24 / Annecy / Crêperie du Château / France / French
13 Jan

There was a very small bakery/patisserie called with a queue, called Boulangerie du Palais, so we peeked in to see what they were selling. They had baguettes, pizza, bread and viennoiseries. The most popular item was a brioche aux praline, which was a large brioche bun smothered in a bright pink, presumably sweet, coating. They also had long, rectangular puff pastries filled with the same coloured syrup and almonds. Mum bought a ham, cheese and gherkin baguette to share with dad. She didn’t check the price before buying...

11:18 / Boulangerie du Palais / Bread / France / Lyon
12 Jan

I wanted to try a bouchon, which is a restaurant that serves Lyonnaise dishes. Looking up what typical Lyonnaise cuisine was, I didn’t expect to really, really enjoy it, but I thought we should try it because we’re here. I’d heard that the servings at Le Bouchon des Filles were big and there wasn’t any option other than the €25 4 course meal, so we shared two of the meals between the three of us. They told us that they don’t normally allow that, but because it was...

22:19 / Food / France / French / Le Bouchon des Filles / Lyon / Restaurants
11 Jan

As we tried to translate the menu on the board outside and determine if we should go into La Petite Gourmand, a lady came out and said they had an English menu inside. It turned out that she was the chef. The restaurant is very small, only seating 15, and all the tables were actually reserved but we had an hour to order and eat before having to clear out by ~8:30pm. We received a little bowl of purple potato chips while we were still looking at the...

22:16 / Avignon / France / French / La Petite Gourmand
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