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Favourite slopeside restaurants in the Portes du Soleil

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We've been in a good few, but wonder if there are any gems we've missed? Or new owners this season?
We love Chez Nannon and the Paika on the Morzine Les Gets side, and the Cremaillaire in Lindarets, but what are we missing out on?
Is there a special restaurant down the Ripaille? A perfect cake or coffee in Crosets?

Anyway snowHead please list them all here, and I'll endeavour to waddle back here with some reviews in a couple of weeks time. wink
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We've had some nice lunching in the (Tane O') Marmotte in Plaine Dranse, not been there for a few years though must be admitted.

Had an excellent early season lunch last year in the one that isn't called the refuge at the base of the Abricotine chair.

And of course, The Crappahutte...
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Recommend Coquoz on Planachaux piste and La Pisa on Ripaile both on Swiss side.
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La Grande Ourse up on Mont Chery. Good food, not that expensive (for a French ski mountain restaurant) and a hot choccolate menu that had a couple of the ladies go weak at the knees just reading.

Forget the name but had a very nice pork shin stew in one of the restaurants in the Goat Village - modern style sign 2nd or 3rd place on the right. Worst part of the meal was the member of my group sat next to me who, having sat with us at a table inside proceeded to secretly eat her own sandwich and then complain about how slow the waiter (covering the whole restaurant and bar on his own) was when she wanted to order a dessert. Mad
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One to avoid is the Passe Montagne in Chatel Pre la Joux sector, it's by the bottom of the Combes and Cornebois chairs.
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Mjit wrote:
Forget the name but had a very nice pork shin stew in one of the restaurants in the Goat Village - modern style sign 2nd or 3rd place on the right.


Sounds like Le Chaudron- we called in for lunch there last week.

PS Anyone else notice that the goat village restaurants get cheaper as you go through the village...?
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We've had some nice lunching in the (Tane O') Marmotte in Plaine Dranse, not been there for a few years though must be admitted


Very slow service these days - avoid
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Mjit wrote:
La Grande Ourse up on Mont Chery. Good food, not that expensive (for a French ski mountain restaurant) and a hot choccolate menu that had a couple of the ladies go weak at the knees just reading.

Worst part of the meal was the member of my group sat next to me who, having sat with us at a table inside proceeded to secretly eat her own sandwich Mad


Agreed on both counts.

Paika also good.
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Thank you! Any others?
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Chez Flo in Avoriaz. Ski the green through the village with the big drop/cliff on your right hand side. It's practically one of the last restarauts on your left, opposite the cable car which comes up from Les Prodains.
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La Taniere in Avoriaz which is in the same area as Chez Flo, opposite the Prodains cable car station.

Enormous portions of very good quality food at decent prices, with friendly service. For such a prime position they could really rip you off but it is far from being the case.
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Whitters, agree - we always visit La Taniere - soup is absolutely lovely! Really like this place.
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There's a place a couple of hundred yards up from the double poma/t bar (Ripaille) on the Croset side - can't remember the name unfortunately. Not cheap but brilliant food. Worth booking a table on your way past in the morning though as always busy!
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Dashed, That is one of our favourites. Le Toupin - usually only a coffee at Swiss prices but we have done lunch there. it is very good and particularly cosy inside if it is blowing a hooly
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So deliciously subjective! Don't agree with some of the above but "a chaqun son gout" as they say. The most successful rule we've come up with over many seasons is to not go to the places you like when they're over-busy, because you'll end up hating them!

All mountain restaurants are understaffed in high season (french employment law exacerbating this). So if you can't do packed lunch or eat really early or really late it's better to have a reassuringly bad experience in a mediocre restaurant, than to be disappointed to find that what the week before was a lovely cute uncrowded place with attentive staff and carefully prepared food has now become a disaster.

Anyway at least we have the choice and slightly edgy russian-rouletteiness of it all, compared to the single awful burger-barn factories of many US resorts!
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Quite agree with this :
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Anyway at least we have the choice


we tend not to eat out when the places are very busy as the service may be a bit iffy and we are never here during February half-term and probably not at NY either.

On Morzine side one of our favourites is the very simple Creperie Atray, right by the Atray lift. Crepes and very good omelettes and salad and difficult to spend very much in there.
Closer to home and just off the main run back into Les Gets on the left hand side is the Restaurant du Lac, lunch usually good in there.
And a bit further down the slope off to the left hand side is the Crychar Hotel - lovely to stop there for a cup of coffee - in fact we had only just emerged from the trees above it the other day starting out when we decided to pop in there.
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And no one has mentioned K2 burgers in les gets yet either wink
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Pamski, we really enjoyed Restaurant du Lac in the summer, we lunched there on quite a few days when we were at the lake. There was also a very nice place that I can't recall the name of, we had gone up the Chavannes Express with the bikes and come part way down and there was a hamlet with a few restaus and an apartment block at the top of a lift and near some draglifts, we had a lovely lunch there too. I would like to ski Les Gets but it's a long way over from Chatel really.
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sarah, I think you were at the Chavannes - its where the top of the gondola is, although that doesn't run in the summer. There is a small hotel there which opens in the summer as well as the winter the Croix Blanche (we have had good lunches in there, its one of the places that you can't usually book and have to turn up with your party of 4, 6 or whatever and then get seated), and also the Grand Cry, Yeti and another couple.
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Pamski, thanks! I think it was the Croix Blanche, it was very nice indeed Very Happy
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The children love the hot chocolates at the Yeti at Chavannes - so much cream on the top! Also at Les Blattins where pistes 33 and 34 cross on the way to the Linga from Plaine Dranse. We're hoping to get there for lunch one day next week.

I agree though, it's all subjective, depending on what you are looking for and how busy the place happens to be. We had a wonderful experience on our very first day in Morzine at Nannon. It had been the only recommendation by a friend, so we were disappointed that it was full. They took pity on us and set us up in the kitchen amongst the pots, pans and ovens! We had a huge vacherin between us and we're liberally plied with genepi and perfectly looked after. Since then, it's never been quite as good, but we always pop in for old times sake. Very Happy
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