 Poster: A snowHead
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| Skiing can be a dangerous sport, especially if you fail to check the prices before entering a restaurant. |
If you can't spot the menu outside ... don't allow a rush of blood and holiday enthusiasm to take you inside the restaurant regardless! At least, not just anywhere. There are bad and indifferent restaurants (sometimes very expensive irrespective of quality), the are good-value medium-priced restaurants (no cheap ones these days any more I'm afraid...) and then there are the expensive ones (and usually excellent quality). And the likes of Val d'Isère and Courchevel 1850 have their share of these!
Article: No such thing as a ski lunch!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thats made me remember a meal I had it Courcheval 1850, I think the restuarant was called La Cloche, my daughter who was working in Courcheval had booked it for dinner for her mum and I. The food was fine, the restaurant was good but it was the most expensive dinner I've ever bought in the mountains. In fact Courcheval 1850 seems to specialise in expensive retsaurants. There are some good restaurants that aren't too expensive, we've had some superb meals in the Grive Gourmand restuarant in the Fleur de Neige hotel in Chatel, Les Cornettes in Chapelle d'Abondance is amazing value, the Albert Premiere in Chamonix is very good. In and around La Rosiere there are some terrific restaurants that won't break the bank, Le Chalet, L'Ancolie, Le Chaumeire come to mind as places we want to return to. I imagine it's because it's a small resort with a mainly family clientele. Any more snowheads tips for eating out in the Alps?
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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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Yes, it can be tricky picking on the right place. We (kids and I) just want LOTS of good basic food - no fancy mini works of art, but lots of tasty carbohydrate.
So which of the many restaurants to choose? Usual system at home is pick the one packed with locals. But who are the locals? And all the restaurants in ski resorts are busy most of the time, so that's no good. Personal recomendation is always a help, but that is not always available. So what do I do?
1. Is there a menu displayed?
2. Can I afford it?
3. Do they do Pizza or Pasta (for Rosie) and Chicken or Burgers (for Tom)?
4. Do the staff greet me with a jolly smile and encourage my dreadful attempts at French?
If yes to all four: have a meal.
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David. Excuse me while I go into pedant cycle.
I must remind you how to spell 'Courchevel' sometime. Legend has it that the name is often mis-spelled because of an old error by The Times....
...and the legend is true. I have in front of me a copy of The Times 'Atlas of the World' (Comprehensive Edition, 1968). And the word is spelt...
...Courcheval.
So, no detention for you this time.
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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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Jonpim, I usually do the following in France....
Lunchtime - ski, grab a snack. But if you really have to stop at the classic times reserved for eating, stand outside the ESF just as they've all finished the morning sessions, and follow them - or better still, ask! That's usually where you'll find the best value eating places in the resort. For the evenings? Ask an instructor or two. Trial and error in a week's break is a bit risky, given the increasing number of very average quality 'rip off a tourist' places there are these days, especially in the bigger resorts.
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One of the reason I drive to ski is to enable me eat like a pig in the evening. Staying away from the expensive resort accommodation I normally drive to the cafeteria of the adjacent hypermarket. You can have a 200g steak cooked to your specification for less than 5 quid. Food at French hypermarkets is very high quality and the one at Abertville serve superb Jambon grill. Typical dinner expenditure for the wife and me seldom exceed 15 quid. For those don't want to speak French using a finger to point is quite acceptable in a cafeteria.
We normally have a small snack and a drink at the expensive mountain restaurant while skiing and unzip the belly in the evening. One can always choose a nice setting and an unforgettable evening of being ripped off or beat the system.
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PG, good advice. 
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When my youngest was younger (!) he collected the small business cards from all the restaurants we visited with the intention of putting them on a website. He never gor round to it, but we all thought it a good idea at the time. Child-friendly restaurants all over the Alps and the Mediterannean, with good food for both kids and adults.
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