 Poster: A snowHead
|
Does anyone know where is best to eat, and book for a Christmas Eve meal in Arc 1800?
Failing that, 1600 or 1950/2000.
I’ve eaten in all three resorts previously but wondering if there is anywhere special for Xmas?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
|
Anyone?
|
|
|
|
|
|
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?
|
|
Maybe post in the "resorts" part of the Forum. I don't know Arc 1800 but I do know that special Christmas Eve meals are extremely expensive and might not be to the taste of those of us used to traditional British Christmas fare. Personally, I can take or leave oysters!
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
@Skiloony, I tend not to go out for the Christmas eve meals but have New Year's eve and tried a few in Arc 1600. Generally I use the Labouche or the les Geneux for meals out. May I suggest you book early and brace yourself for spending a lot. Have a walk around when you get to the resort and see what each restaurant is offering.
| Quote: |
Eve meals are extremely expensive and might not be to the taste of those of us used to traditional British Christmas fare. Personally, I can take or leave oysters!
|
I, for one, are glad of this and I'm fond of oysters (not the expense obviously). Though I have to confess we have often smuggled brussel sprouts, parsnips and christmas pudding into France and buy the roast chiken from the shop for a English Christmas dinner. I have to please my wife sometimes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
|
I for one, like to try other Christmas traditions. It's a special evening, if you want to make it special and can afford it , why not? I for one have no objection to oysters and beef. Turkey is pants and I'd rather have a chicken. We'll have arrived on 23rd, gone skiing on the morning of the 24th, and probably not yet managed a decent food shop, so perhaps a Christmas Reveillon is the answer for us this year too.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
|
@Hells Bells, as a child in the North East the traditional Christmas lunch was chicken or if you had a bit more money goose. But one Christmas I remember we had a piglet my uncle had bred.
It was quite a while before turkeys started to appear.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm not particularly fond of Christmas, really. It's all about who's there, not the food and I was always far too mean to treat any family staying with us to a Christmas Eve blowout. Those big French meals aren't my favourite either - though a Francophile neighbour who had a French boyfriend invited us to a New Year's Eve dinner at hers one weekend. Was memorable. Excellent champagne and canapés, fillet steak with paté de fois gras and top class Burgundy and I Could No Longer Remember What for pudding. We were invited because I could speak French (of a kind, but he spoke NO English and that, plus a few glasses of champagne, rendered me almost fluent.....) to the boyfriend. Fortunately the hostess lived 40 yards away, or we might not have made it back home.......
My French neighbour from Saisies fed us a huge meal in their home in Belgium (he is Belgian and IIRC this was a Belgian thing) - three courses, with pastry in each! Extraordinary. Very good pastry, but still. My husband could fall back on his diabetes as an excuse for declining pudding, but I had to eat the lot.
I bought a capon in France one Christmas. It was not a great success. I probably cooked it wrong.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
|
The french arent big christmas eve meal people, so its more general food rather than a big turkey
in 1800 try Cabane des Neiges, L'escale Gourmande or Le Chic Mama. All are good
as its a holiday period, you will need to book
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On our last trip to LA1800 (March 22 - after the French school holiday period) we really struggled to eat out on any night - no tables anywhere for a group of 6.
Ended up waiting 2.5 hours + for a take away pizza one night  It is the main reason we might avoid LA for 23/24.
Goes without saying you'll need to commit early to avoid similar disappointment... and probably for all the nights you want to eat out too.
|
|
|
|
|
|
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
|
| Quote: |
The french arent big christmas eve meal people, so its more general food rather than a big turkey
|
Well, no and yes. They ARE big Christmas Eve meal people (more so than the Brits) but turkey isn't where it's at.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
@JP Wolf, In 1600 we usually book our evening meals when we return from skiing on that day. It has never been a problem but on occaisions the pizza take away has taken 45 minutes when they have been rushed. They give us an estimate and we come back later. I wonder if they are in cahoots with the bar down the street.
On one occaison I recall going to the Cairn restaurant for dinner with my nepthew on a summer evening only to be met by Mssr Fernand, the owner. His wife had just given birth to a daughter and he invited us to join him and his staff for a drink at the take away pizza (and get a pizza from there). Many glasses of pink wine later and a couple take away pizzas we left. For the only time in my life I fell asleep in the bath. The water was stone cold when I woke up
Some times, for example New Year's eve, you need to book well in advance.
The French are very big on Christmas Eve meals and spend a lot of time and money on them.
@Hells Bells, More often gammon for us on New Year's day, with pease pudding, of course. Now that I can get pease pudding in tesco I often have ham, pease pudding and picked onions for lunch which reminds me so much of my childhood (along with egg, tomato and sand sandwichs in the summer)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FAQ
