A food experience in Paris

October 1, 2008

I just came back from Paris, last week, after seven days of food tasting on the streets of the French capital. Despite the extremely numerous on-street small sales points, with sandwiches or pancakes (crepes), there are a lot of good tasting french restaurants. And you have a chance to get into a not-so-expensive place.
The first objective: foie gras
We’ve tasted it in two places - 12 euro for two slices in the first one, 20 euro in the second, but this one was at 100 metres distance to the Sacre Coeur Cathedral. As you might know, foie gras is always served better, and tastes better, with toast.
We even grabbed a small foie gras jar for home:)
The second objective: coq au vin
OK, after we achieved the foie gras mission, we headed for coq au vin - one of the french cuisine’s icons. You know, Paris has a huge number of restaurants/bistros. But, not so many sell coq au vin. Anyway, we found two restaurants which had coq au vin included in the menu; one was closed when we arrived at, one was open, so we landed there. The restaurant had a motto, “inventive cuisine”, but it wasn’t so inventive: the coq au vin was served with…..italian pasta?? Anyway, at least the food was good tasting.
Wine vs. beer
Being a wine country, France has, unfortunately, huge prices for beer. I mean, I was pretty shocked to see that a 500 ml glass of lager is sold, like everywhere, with at least 8-8,50 euro?? Due to this horrible nightmare, we were forced to drink only…wine. Yeah, I know, very hard mission:)).

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