 Poster: A snowHead
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Off there next week for Chrismas (woo hoo) so most important Q is...
Having not been before (apart from on a bike in summer) wheres the best coffee?
Note I asked "best" as this is France and I know good coffee is hard to come by.
Any other recommendations re, food (on/off the mountain) and runs welcome as well.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Some real regulars on here who know far more than me but I've 3 visits so I'll add my take on the place.
Can't help with the coffee I'm afraid. Best meal we had in the evening was Au Ble Noir (best to book), lovely little place. On the mountain I like the little place down at Villard Reculas. Bizarrely I also like the cafe in the Bergers centre, it's an inexpensive place to grab something if the weather is poor.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Not sure what your particular poison is coffee-wise - I like a grand noire
The stuff they serve up at La Grange, Les Airelles and La Combe Haute always goes down well after a nice lunch, esp if they accompany it with some free genepi 
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Arno, Espresso for choice but I don'tmind filter as long as it's fresh, but some of the stuff I've been served in France has tested that. I'll check out where you suggest.
Only 2 replys though  I wonder is they'd have been as sparce if I'd asked about skiing Tunnel?
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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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The coffee in the boulangerie in town, just down from the Lutins Hotel is rather good, as are their croissants.
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Hells Bells, I there a Lutins in Alpe D'Huez too 
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adithorp, Best food IMO Chalet d'Oz which is easy to ski past on the right hand side of the lower Poutran run down to Oz. Coffee is tricky, Les Airelles at Montfrais is pretty decent and they have a nice big terrace. Maybe worth trying the new Signal resto, opened last season and I didn't get around to stopping there yet.
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If you like cappuccino like they have in Australia then the place at the top of Signal might tickle your fancy. Almost as good as in Italy. The barista is a Brazilian guy. By expensive though 3.5eu from memory.
Otherwise the closest decent coffee is La Thiule.....
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adithorp, It's been a couple of years since I've been but I seem to remember there was a nice little coffee house down in Auris. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I wondered how long it'd take to get a try "LaThuile" answer. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Great question adithorpe and thanks for raising it. I don't know the answer but the answers from others have definitely helped me because I'm in Alpe D'Huez this Xmas too! (with my two teenage sons).
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You know it makes sense.
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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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There's a challenge I might find hard to resist.
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Would you mind trying all such coffee shops/ mountains restaurants for me, and reporting back Toofy Grin Toofy Grin Toofy Grin
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hey up adithorp, how was you holiday.
Hopefully you santa was good to you 
As you are now back, I am hoping you can shed some light on what are the best places to attend for the the all important "cake and coffee" debate
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Difficult to say to be honest. The conditions meant quite a lot of pistes were closed throughout the week solimiting the choice of mountain coffee stops available. It was one of those weeks we tended to just keep going untill we dropped then headed back.
Folie Douce at the top of Marmottes1 had good(ish) coffee and nice hot chocolate. We used the cafe in the Bergers centre a few times either as a refuge from the weather or to give lift ques time to clear and the coffee/chocolate and cakes were good there, though the view leaves plenty to be desired.
Didn't try the Signal rest' as it was always a blowing gale when we got up there so just kept skiing but the ones we tried near the bottom of Signal weren't good or the one I tried in Oz (on a rise behind the lift station).
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Thanks adithorp,
I think I better take a flask with me by the sounds of it 
Hopefully the weather next week won't be as wild
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