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I asked something similar in another thread but I'll do so here too.
We'll be staying in the area in late March next year. We'll have a car. My wife is a keen student of French and wants to have a very French experience. The idea is we'll check out the local hills if they are still in good nick but we'll also drive to Les Contamines and Cham (for the Vallee Blanche) and maybe even Flaine to check that out.
In which village or town will we hear the most French voices and have the most French interaction when we are out to dinner of an evening?
Thanks in advance.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@sbooker, had dinner in a restaurant in Les C quite a few years ago where the owners didn’t speak English so French required , Le Totem I think, but I think its closed now. It wasn’t great though.
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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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@sbooker, I'd imagine Les Contas. The Auberge de Colombaz looked very nice when I stopped after a wee skin but I doubt it's accessible for dinner. Le Carnotzet also looked quite fine, we stopped for a coffee.
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@sbooker, oh but we had a great dinner at La Galeta in St Gervais not far from Les C. Very local dishes so did have a very local feel. Should fit the bill.
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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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@sbooker, in St Gervais the restaurants vary. La Perle pizza place is predominantly English speaking, but as @ster says Le Galeta is very popular with the French (though its frequent mention here advertises it to English speaking visitors). Last week we went to the main Serac restaurant (Michelin star so not cheap eating) for my birthday and we were the only English there, on the other hand at Serac's Bistrot (possibly my favourite restaurant anywhere) about a quarter of the tables are English speaking.
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You could try Praz sur Arly for fewer English voices around you.
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La Ferme de Cupelin is very well regarded by locals in SG and I thought the dinner I had at Source was at Michelin level with mainly a French clientele.
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Can recommend L'ours noir in Les C for a French experience tempered with most other nationalities! The owner is an ESF instructor, his wife is (iirc Swedish) and makes excellently weird pizzas (I had a Thai green curry one!) and they do craft beer...
We'll be back there in January.
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@devilabit, I can confirm the excellence of Source, I think it has a Michelin rosette (the level below a star); I think there was a mix of languages but majority French. I haven't been to La Ferme du Cupelin which is too far to walk from the centre at night but I would imagine it is pretty French.
When President Macron visited St Gervais shortly before Covid (I think prompted by the tensions about inappropriate activities on Mont Blanc) there was a photo online afterwards of him alongside the chefs responsible for the municipal reception: those of Serac, La Ferme du Cupelin and Rond de Carotte - another restaurant we can recommend, although English speakers seem to be fairly well represented in its clientele.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thanks all.
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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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La Ferme du Cupelin Is amazing, go for the 9 course tasting experience.
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Macron is meant to be around tomorrow for the inauguration of Le Valléen
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You know it makes sense.
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@devilabit, I mentioned in a post above the rumour that M. Peillex was trying to get him - but I had rather assumed it might not happen if the government was still in limbo. No doubt they will be closing all the roads and causing general chaos.
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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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| ... I had rather assumed it might not happen if the government was still in limbo. |
And right on cue Macron appoints a PM.
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