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Right then, forget about the skiing, not really interested in all that (though the Swiss Wall might finally be a possibility this year) I am interested in places for lunch and dinner.
Suggestions welcome on decent places for either, needs to be sensibly priced if possible please - special award for whoever can find the best pizza on the mountain, this is my specialist subject.
Finally any good places to drink in Morzine, need somewhere that can handle a bunch of guys that are effectively on a stag do without anyone having to get married at the end. We will be drinking a lot, and then probably end up in some kind of nightclub. Cheap bars with a decent atmosphere that you can have a laugh and still hear yourself think would be ideal.
TIA. Leaving on Thursday, I can't wait.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Monium, the best pizza is downstairs in the La Grande Ourse at the top of Mont Chery. If the downstairs is open. The restaurant upstairs is very good, but service is very (very, very, very) slow.
Chez Nanon (just above the tree line as you go up the Troncs lift) is great if you want a small, cozy mountain hut that does proper mountain food.
La Paika (on the blue that goes down to the Perrieres lift in Les Gets) is great. It usually has an outdoor BBQ that usually has something like whole coquelet or similar. Fantastic puds.
Chanagbang in Avoriaz (next to the the ESF office opposite the top of the top of the Prodains cable car) does great burger, chilli, type things. A particularly good chicken sandwich. (Actually, it's rubbish, stay away.)
The "Restaurant Plaine Dranse" in, errrr, Plaine Dranse is a good, dependable self-service that does a respectable chicken and chips.
The Pomme de Pin in the Linderats bowl does the best tarte tintin in the area.
If you're skiing over towards Linga and it's cold then the little place on the drag lift line, just below the top of the Linga bubble has a lovely big open fire (the place on the right, not the one of the left). If it's warm then the one of the left has nice chocolate doughnuts and hand-drawn porn behind the bar.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Tue 14-02-12 14:49; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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FlyingStantoni, this is great, but what's a "taste tintin"? Spellcheck on tarte tatin?
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Monium, ah, good thinking Sherlock. I too had been wondering.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Lindarets bowl, Les Marmottes, Salade Paysanne. This is a proper man's salad (both size and content) usual salady stuff plus lardons, fried spuds, cheese all topped with a runny fried egg.
Ski like a champion all afternoon with that inside you. Had my first one in 2002 and never been to PDS without having sampling at least once. Mmmm.....
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and hand-drawn porn behind the bar.
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Yep, Monium, bloody smell cheeker.
Nice call Ski Tyke 
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| FlyingStantoni wrote: |
Monium,
La Paika (on the blue that goes down to the Perrieres lift in Les Gets) is great. It usually has an outdoor BBQ that usually has something like whole coquelet or similar. Fantastic puds.
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Fantastic, every thing is great here, have the BBQ or have the soup, and the cakes are fantastic as well.
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FlyingStantoni, where abouts is this place again? I'll need something to do while my GF is having lessons! 
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The place FS mentions in Linga (without the artistic attractions) is called La Leiche.
One of our favourites in the Lindarets valley is L'Abricotine at Brocheaux
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Terrasse or Cremaillere in Lindarets, Crem're more savoyarde and mushrooms than sophistication.
Tane O'Marmottes in Plaine Dranse a little different and quite fun.
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| under a new name wrote: |
| Terrasse or Cremaillere in Lindarets, Crem're more savoyarde and mushrooms than sophistication. |
under a new name, which is the one on the left as you ski through the village?
Whichever it is, it does an excellent "petites plates des savoyardes" (or something similar) - lots of mini versions of different things like tarteflette.
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You know it makes sense.
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Sitting in L'Abricotine at Brochaux. Snow all morning, boot deep to knee deep.
I can confirm the Omelette Campagnarde (bacon, potatoes) frites and salad is a top remedy for cold hungry skier.
It may not be cordon bleu but for lunch it delivers the goods.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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FlyingStantoni, La cremaillere is on the left as you ski through. The terrasse is too but it's a level down.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thought I'd come back with an update, after loads of really useful suggestions, I have to confess we basically ignored most of them and ended up eating at whatever time in the morning we felt able to actually deal with food.
First night we drank in a quiet bar after arriving at 11pm. The whole resort was like a ghost town, nobody out drinking or dancing. Great for families, great for couples who want a nice evening in town and an early night, perhaps not so good for a boys weekend.
First day we were having a fairly intense ski day so just pulled in for a pit stop in the sunshine at 11 - the croque and chips was the ideal lunch for a hot day, putting enough fuel in the tank to get us through pretty much the whole afternoon with only a mild hangover. I have almost no idea the name of the place - remembering things was fairly difficult, and guessing at a piste map isn't helping much. Not much use to you lot, but if it makes you feel any better I had a great lunch.
Got back to Le Tremplin at the end of the day for a crepe, and they do a really good job on that. Service was pretty average every time we went there, but we were far too tired to go anywhere else.
First night dinner was Le Grillon. We loved the place - a good balance of price vs quality vs quantity. Properly great pizzas - and that is not something I say often. As a man who has dedicated a significant proportion of his life to the eating of pizza, I know really damned good pizza when I eat it. A really good menu, miles away from the usual - Margherita, Pepperoni, Ham & Pineapple nonsense. This had new flavours, decent ingredients, in short if you like pizza, hit this place. Fresh as you like too.
Second day we had a hard day of skiing followed by a fairly serious night out. The sun was shining so we had a slightly odd plan to basically snack our way through the day - a fairly sensible way to get through a day without stopping for a 2 hour lunch in the middle. Naturally I disagreed, but was outvoted. We headed to Avoriaz and pulled in for a quick stop at the bottom of the Chamoissiere Express. I honestly can't even remember eating there. I remember thinking we'd be perfectly happy to go back there again.
We decided to show the rest of the guys Le Grillon. Everyone had a good meal, again. I had a beer that took me literally 45 minutes to drink.
Third day we'd gone for a similarly odd stopping strategy, which meant no mountain lunch again and just a series of snacks and drinks. Disappointing. We managed to stop in for an incredibly expensive Sprite somewhere in Switzerland (maybe at the side of Champeys), and despite it hammering down with snow for pretty much the whole day the boys were not stopping. One carefully crafted "wrong turn" and I was in the Tremplin for another crepe. A lot of pepsi later, and we were back in the game.
At this point the appetite for food overtook the appetite for drinking, but we were determined to go out for a nice meal. We asked at the hotel, and got pointed towards La Chaudanne, a restaurant about 100m after the Super Morzine lift on the right hand side. We went downstairs for a drink while they got a table ready, and had a bit of tapas. Not just a little pot of chorizo and a few potatoes, this was a full on slate of meats, cheeses, bread and other stuff. Really nice, good bottle of wine, and made a perfect starter. We headed upstairs for the main event, a fondue/hot stone combination that was brilliant. Freshly cooked meat, chips, fondue, salad, another bottle of wine and we got to about 40 euros each for the whole thing. Best decision of the week. Eat in this place - really good on all fronts.
Drinking then took a late sprint finish to turn a fairly nice meal into a full blown pub crawl through the middle of town, and ending in L'Opera. I have no idea how any nightclub on earth gets away with charging 12 euros to get in, then 9 euros for a tiny bottle of Heineken. Luckily we were three sheets and then some by the time we got there, so only had two or three rounds. I have no idea how much a round of Jagerbombs came to, but I guess we'll find out at the bank tomorrow 
The last day was a quieter affair, apparently we got home at 5am. We got up at 9am. Bleurgh. After a few hours everybody decided to stop and get some food - we dropped in to the shack next to the bridge/tunnel thing in Les Gets, you basically walk over a massive canyon, which nearly made me have a bit of a vom, and then the shack is on the right. It is important you get the directions, because you seriously do not want to eat there. They managed to make a cheese crepe a bit horrible. The Americain sandwich was voted by the group to be the worst sandwich they'd ever eaten. And we have eaten some real crap in our time.
Back for crepe and medals, and the transfer turned up at 5pm. Now basically exhausted. Apologies for the lack of detail, but there are a lot of hazy unknowns from the last 4 days. Including a bronze statue and the best violin solo of all time 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Loved the trip report but you basically had us over here. We thought you were after epicurean delight but it was just a carb fest to mop up the previous nights beer.
If we'd known tHat we could have come up with different suggestions!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| DJL wrote: |
Loved the trip report but you basically had us over here. We thought you were after epicurean delight but it was just a carb fest to mop up the previous nights beer.
If we'd known tHat we could have come up with different suggestions! |
I don't know why, but for some reason I thought a 4 day long weekend trip with the boys would be just a little bit more relaxed than normal as a result of various work commitments, babies on the way, and lack of finances from various members of the group. I could not have been more wrong.
And sheer quantities of carbs are what mountain food is based on. That's why I like ski trips so much 
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| Ski Tyke wrote: |
Lindarets bowl, Les Marmottes, Salade Paysanne. This is a proper man's salad (both size and content) usual salady stuff plus lardons, fried spuds, cheese all topped with a runny fried egg.
Ski like a champion all afternoon with that inside you. Had my first one in 2002 and never been to PDS without having sampling at least once. Mmmm..... |
Had a look round Lindarets today- couldn't see any of the ones mentioned like les Marmottes or Cremaillere- any clues on where they are anyone?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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MrSteve, You have to head down into the goat village (follow the run that would eventually lead to the bottom of the Ardent bubble) and then take your pick - quite a few places there.
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| DJL wrote: |
| MrSteve, You have to head down into the goat village (follow the run that would eventually lead to the bottom of the Ardent bubble) and then take your pick - quite a few places there. |
Aah- I see where you mean- it all becomes clear now. Thanks DJL!
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I also really enjoyed Marmottes, where we ate twice this week. Also the place with the red neon sign just a little further towards the top of the Ardent bubble - similar food and vibe really.
Escapade in Ardent itself also served us good food - tasty fondue etc 
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