Saturday, June 30, 2012

The Irish Pub


The Irish Pub
 

Second Day in Paris for our short holiday and we dined in a restaurant called 'The Irish Pub' near our hotel by the marina. The funny thing is the restaurant has an English (well Irish) name but the menu and the waiters cannot speak any english at all.

But aside from that, the food was great and so is the service despite the language barrier. The menu mostly consisted of filling food like burgers, steaks, sandwiches, etc.

We ordered burger, sandwich and my dad ordered a crepe meal which had salad and all sorts of accompaniments with it. The food was really filling but we didn't stop there, we shared desserts of ice cream with cream and chocolate sauce and banana split.

From having the banana split, it made me want to create my own back here at home and I shall do it soon when I can.

More food updates later :)

Saturday, June 2, 2012

La Cour De La Huchette

La Cour De La Huchette

 

This week, me and my family went to Paris for a short holiday for the 3rd time and along great company and great city comes great food.

We dined at nice restaurants and had amazing food that certainly fuelled us up ready for the excursions of the day. 

Here is the first of the restaurants which is called 'La Cour de la Huchette' in English 'The Court of Huchette' and 'Huchette' being one of the oldest streets of Paris.

The restaurant was really nice and had a really nice atmosphere where there is an outdoor restaurant which is like a greenhouse because of the roofing being clear and there were plants running along the walls and stone walls. The tables also had flower setting in the centre and the room was just so bright and vibrant.

On to the menu, the menu was really varied, there was pizza, pasta, meat, fish, frog legs and even snail dishes. My sister and her boyfriend shared a pizza dish which had ham, olives and mushrooms as toppings (very Italian-like). They also had snails or 'escargos' as the French say it as starters. I'm not really a big fan on snails as they are or as food, I just think they are slimy but I must say from what my sister and her boyfriend have said about the snails, it must be really good. They were served with garlic butter sauce which gave them their flavour and also served in their shells for presentation.

For my starter, I had ham platter with salad and gherkins. There were two types of ham on the platter one is cured and one is regular ham. I'm also not a big fan of gherkins so I left that but out. 
The main, on the other hand, was not only appetising but also very delicious. It was beef cooked in red wine served with potato layer bake, braised rice with tomato sauce and salad. 
It was a really good balance with the texture and taste. From the softness of the potatoes and rice to the tender beef and crunchy salad.

This restaurant and it's food were really satisfactory and in my opinion really worth the cost. I really recommend it if even you visit the city of Paris.

More travel food from this holiday and this majestic city in later posts.

P.S. For lifestlye and more pictures from this holiday, click here.

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