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BCjohnny, if you buy a drink, you can probably get away with eating your food. Picnic huts are there in the Alps though.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| BCjohnny wrote: |
I guess as well it depends where you are.
In Canada, most places have a "den", often as part of the main chalet/restaurant where you can eat your own snap, in the warm. In fact most places seem ok about you using the restaurant tables, inside and out. As most of the locals seem to do.
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It does get on my tits a bit when huge family groups and, in particular, race clubs fill the lodge with massive picnic chests, drinks coolers etc then "save" about 10 tables for their rolling feast while punters that have shelled out for nosh in the lodge are left to scrape for odd seats around the fringes. Usually there's a formidable looking portly Mom sitting there with a paperback all day, glaring at anyone who might dare to try and sit there.
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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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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| BCjohnny, if you buy a drink, you can probably get away with eating your food. Picnic huts are there in the Alps though. |
In quite a few places there are signs "no pic-nic even with drinks" (e.g. the restauirant at the top of Tichot in Tignes). It annoys me but I can see why they say that. I just eat elsewhere, even on the days when I don't have a packed lunch.
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[So get an s/c apartment close to the piste and ski home for a bowl of soup or some bread and cheese?[/quote]
That's exactly what we do. Rented a ski in ski out apartment from a Snowhead last year and most of the time came back there. Worked out well as we have a vegetarian and a vegan to cater for! Soup and sandwich and a yogurt and then out again.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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[quote="nbt(e.g. the restauirant at the top of Tichot in Tignes)[/quote]
(reputedly owned by the mayor!)
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There are warm picnic rooms at all the midstations in Chamonix (salle hors-sac). I think a briefing on where you can eat your packed lunch is a good idea though.
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//dbl
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Wed 14-10-09 11:16; edited 1 time in total
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€5 for grillwurst mit pommes, €3 for strudel, €1.50 for a huge Fanta - substitute a toastie, schnitzel, chicken or tirolergrostl for the grillwurst depending on the day, and alternate between the apfel and topfen strudel and germknodel. Why pack sandwiches - you need 3500-4000 calories a day if you are a reasonably active skier, and two slices of limp Bimbo or a teeth-crunching roll with some waxy cheese just doesn't cut it 
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Kaiser, I'm told he, and his relatives, own quite a few. They seem to get permissions quite easily too.
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| firebug wrote: |
| I think a briefing on where you can eat your packed lunch is a good idea though. |
Might be worth a "sticky", in these lean times.
John.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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We usually come back to the chalet where we'll have bread, cheese, saucisson, pate and the like, plus beer and coffee. We usually have to come back to pick my friends kids up from morning ski school anyway. In the afternoon we then go skiing with the kids - which used to mean an easy afternoon, but now doesn't as most of the kids can now ski anything the adults can.
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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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| Mosha Marc wrote: |
| Kaiser, I'm told he, and his relatives, own quite a few. They seem to get permissions quite easily too. |
Coincidence? hmmm.....
Perhaps good picnic spots should be another thread to keep things clear?
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You know it makes sense.
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BCjohnny, could be! Good idea, I will add it to the chalet guide 
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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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Most days, soup and roll for whatever it costs.
Once in a blue moon I'll have a full sitdown job with beer
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Poster: A snowHead
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//dbl aargh!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't like eating much before exercise, so unless I'm tired and in need of a long break, a heavy lunch has no appeal whatsoever. I'd rather eat snacky things frequently than have a substantial lunch. Sandwiches are edible even when completely flattened by a heavy landing! The afternoon generally feels too short as it is, so wasting time in a restaurant unless I've had a really bad morning doesn't really appear. I liked bigger lunch when I had ski boots that didn't fit, or which had not quite bedded in (or when I was busy operating the imaginary toe brake!)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| firebug wrote: |
| I think a briefing on where you can eat your packed lunch is a good idea though. |
Before kids, we always used to take a picnic instead of using a cafe. But we never had trouble finding a suitable spot to eat - I thought that was what the chairlifts were for.
Lunch is for wimps who don't have the strength to ski from dawn to dusk. Even a toilet break is an unreasonable waste of potential skiing time!
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Not stopping for lunch is for wimps who ski like a tart 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Frosty the Snowman, The best located appartments are next to the lift AND a restaurant
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Jonny Jones, I'm also a lift picnicker as long as it's not *too* cold & snowy
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I like a bit of variation. Usually more the Gulaschsuppe sort of thing, plus perhaps share a tart or strudel with someone. But just occasionally a more slap-up meal or the sandwiches (on the Tarrentaise Tour for example). The top end of the latter being once on our last day when a group of us in bright sunshine climbed a ridge in the 3 Valleys and sitting at the top before a long off-piste descent, ate smoked salmon sandwiches (and, I think, Mars bars) washed down with champagne.
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When it was just me and skidaddy then a stop for a Croque Monsiuer or a crepe was fine. With a 3 year old and 5 year old in tow then a stop for a hot chocolate may happen but lunch is a baguette and cheese sat in the snow. On the one bad weather day we had last March, we sat in the boot of the car, parked next to the nursery slope in Sixt - ideal 
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I'm another one in the back to apartment for lunch.
If nothing else the kids can take their ski stuff off - which makes it a lot easier for them to go to the loo.
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Usually of the sandwich persuasion, sometimes bolstered with a barquette of chips between us. Maybe a 'proper' lunch if the weather is really horrible or late season and the weather is gorgeous but the snow has tipped over the edge to slushiness. Both happen so rarely that cost isn't really a consideration although value for money is.
One of the things I love about St Gervais is both the vast supply of restaurants (and toilets!) and the generous supply of salles hors sacs
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Frosty the Snowman, I am with you - the restaurant at the bottom of the blue in Radstadt soup and farmers salad or the Brandegg for rosti and donuts !
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I like a nice sit down lunch, served to me (quickly). might be a pizza in Italy or chilli in Canada with a small beer, but I also like the "lunch of the holiday" which is a bigger affair. I wouldn't go back to the hotel at lunchtime, takes too long plus taking gear off/outting back on. I guess I happily spend around £10+ but it depends what for. I was horrified to casually add "I'll have fries with that" in Tignes to find I'd spent £4 on a bowl of cold skinny things that I only ate half of.
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You know it makes sense.
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holidayloverxx, if you paid £4 you were lucky, the Knife and Fork in Val Thornes were charging 7€ for a carton of chips in April. My 'cheap' croque and chips lunch was 15€ . I could have had much more in SC for less
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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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Helen Beaumont, I know, it was just a shock at the time
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Poster: A snowHead
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It would be nice to have a choice of a picnic from a chalet or hotel - but it wouldn't be a deciding factor for us. As said above - not always easy to find a place to eat them.
On harder skiing holidays Pasta, or a salade composee is nice. But on other holidays fairly frequently we will have fairly big lunches. Rarely 3 courses unless the weather is bad
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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LUNCH? What is that? Those hours in the middle of the day tend to be the quietest so I tend to ensure I ski them although there are certain exceptions, some already mentioned on here like the Villaroger challenge and a stop at La Ferme - now THAT is an exception!
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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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LUNCH? What is that? Those hours in the middle of the day tend to be the quietest so I tend to ensure I ski them although there are certain exceptions, some already mentioned on here like the Villaroger challenge and a stop at La Ferme - now THAT is an exception!
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Mouth, and if passing Le Chaudron in PC
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
| Mouth, and if passing Le Chaudron in PC |
NO that is for summers only.
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Usually between €5-10 for me, either a panini or soup and a drink.
And it's called 'dinner' not 'lunch'! 
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Mouth, Trying telling that to Pete the Dentist
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| snowball wrote: |
| I like a bit of variation. Usually more the Gulaschsuppe sort of thing, plus perhaps share a tart or strudel with someone. But just occasionally a more slap-up meal or the sandwiches (on the Tarrentaise Tour for example). The top end of the latter being once on our last day when a group of us in bright sunshine climbed a ridge in the 3 Valleys and sitting at the top before a long off-piste descent, ate smoked salmon sandwiches (and, I think, Mars bars) washed down with champagne. |
i know one guide who is quite proud of his sabrage skills using a ski rather than a sword 
i generally go with whatever the day permits. picnics are fine in a quiet spot with a good view; ideal is a plat du jour in a nice cosy hut tucked away from the madding crowd at the end of a nice off piste descent. the refuge du sarenne at Alpe d'Huez is a good for that
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I definitely wouldn't bother with a picnic. I wouldn't want to carry it around all morning.
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queen bodecia, that's why you eat it for lunch.
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