 Poster: A snowHead
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Ok I need a recommendation for a good restaurant in Val d'Isere. Will be arriving on my Birthday (Sat 29th Jan) and would like to eat out somewhere, perferrably French food, but not too poncy/pricey! Am staying in La Daille but prepared to go into town if necessary. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Best restaurant on the mountain for me is Edelweiss above Le Fornet. I seem to recall from last year that a hearty and very good quality lunch with wine was in the region of 15 euros which seemed very reasonable indeed.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Lovely! That sounds great for lunch, but what about my evening meal?!
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Tuck Thong, is that the one in between the 2 gondolas? There is somewhere to eat at the middle station but the one under the middle of the first gondola is much much better 
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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 one above the Pacific Bar was pretty good a few years ago.
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Dan, that's the one, second the recommendation.
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snowbabe, when we went to Val d'Isere a couple of years back we stayed full board in the Hotel Mercure (yes, it's a chain hotel) and the food (and atmosphere) was very good. They have two restaurants - one more regional, the other more French. Both do menus for non-guests and indeed there were plenty of non-guests there. There's probably better in the resort, but there'll be an awful lot worse. You can't miss it, it's right by the lifts/slopes, etc.
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The Chalet du Cret is meant to have a great (but expensive) reputation. If you want somewhere a bit more cheap and cheerful then the forge is always good value. My favourite is the second pizza window down from the roundabout.
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I know it's not French but, Le Petit Danois does an excellent Chips and Gravy for about 4 euros - lovely.
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Ok I'll bear all these in mind! Is the chips and gravy place open after the bars close?
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stephen, le petite danois for a birthday celebration, you've got to be joking and last night we were dancing on the tables!
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Summarising ... I too am looking for a restaurant for one evening (you know the drill, chalet holiday, Thursday night off for the chalet staff, that kind of thing). The one under the Gondo sounds like it's up the hill. Is it? If so it's a long walk in the evening (or can you ride the Gondo). Hotel Mercure sounds like big restaurants. But what I am confused about is that one is french and the other regional. Do you mean it does local french food as opposed to a variety of french regional food? And is it central? Any others? keep 'em coming ...
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B00thy, Surprisingly, though the hotel is a big chain, at least one of the restaurants is actually reasonable small and atmospheric. As I say, there must be a better, more atmospheric, local restaurant, but in the absence of any other recommendation and assuming it hasn't changed, then this is at least worth a look. We were on set, full board menu for the week, but from memory of the a la carte menu, one was general French, the other was Savoyarde. It is central. The "back" overlooks the bottom of the nursery lift.
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You know it makes sense.
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Try Le Tufs, betwen the bases of the funicular and the bubble at La Dialle. It is very good at lunchtime and all the reports I have heard say it is even better in the evenings.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks Adrian we'll try Le Tufs 
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