Monday, February 18, 2019

Value Victuals

If there is one thing that the French are good at, it is the good old 'menu prix fixe'. One of the guys we work with told us of a restaurant they had been to which we hadn't been to so we went off today. Our party consisted of M, myself and our colleague and his wife.

We all had a duck terrine to start with a mixed salad and a rather nice undentifiable sauce which was possibly mayonnaise based. As always in France a large amount of bread was made available for free along with the carafe of water. For a main course our friends had steak in pepper sauce whilst we had pork cheeks in a pepper sauce, something we have both got hooked on since we've been here. I had a white bean vegetable dish as a side, the other three had mushrooms. To finish we had 2 x creme brulee, a creme caramel and a chocolate mousse. As part of the deal we also had a 1/4 litre of wine each. And what did this feast cost us? Just 56€ for the four of us. About £50.00.

We don't do this very often as we want to keep it as a treat but it certainly doesn't break the bank when we do treat ourselves.

2 comments:

Masher said...

That's very good value... almost as good as the Toby Carvery meal we had last night :)

Best value we ever had though was in Brazil, some years ago, when four of us bravely ventured out out of the complex and into the town one night, and picked a local restaurant. Nobody there spoke English, but we managed to order a ton of food. We had so many side dishes, that they had to put them on the table next to us! Along with drinks etc, it all worked out to about four quid a head! Amazing.

kennamatic said...

Ooh - Can't beat a Toby