 Poster: A snowHead
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I'd like to nominate La Pause in secteur Peclet, Val Thorens
Tuesday night we wanted a 'typically french' restaurant for an evening meal on the last night of our trip to VT. Being in secteur peclet and it chucking it down with snow we wandered along to 'la pause' which seemed (according to the menu) to meet the bill. My niece (somewhat fussy eater) was just after a pizza, and the BiL and myself wanted tartiflette / steak or similar. The place was pretty much deserted with about 3 tables in use.
"Do you want pizza or to eat in the restaurant the waitress said?"
"We'd like to eat in the restaurant please"
OK please take a seat but we cannot serve pizza there
But my niece wants pizza and we'd like tartiflette
She will have to sit at a different table to you
It can't be that hard - just serve us the tartiflette and her the pizza and we will eat together
I'm sorry that's not possilble
Despite my best french I couldn't convince them that we should be allowed to eat together, at which point we voted with our feet and left.
We ended up going instead to "Les Saints Pere's" in the gallerie du Peclet, which was nice enough to allow us to eat different things at the same table, and indeed served terrific food in a nice ambience. We spent around 25 euros a head what with drinks and puddings and had a very nice meal. I'd definitely recommend Les Saints Pieres again - La Pause need their customer service policies re-examined.
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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 had a Tartiflette pizza once, it was rather good......
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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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| Grizwald wrote: |
| I had a Tartiflette pizza once, it was rather good...... |
But did you eat it at 1 table or 2? 
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we ordered a pizza up les houches in the summer, after an hour waiting we asked were it was and was told that they wouldnt start cooking it until we sat at the opposite side of the table.... We moved and 10 minutes later it came out.
very bizzarre 
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bertie bassett, Was the owner of La Pause called Monsieur Fautif? 
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You don't get these problems in A U S T R I A
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Bode Swiller, no, but then if you don't want sausage or goulash your pretty much screwed
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Bode Swiller, Correct but you have to deal with resteraunts with live animals in them very strange
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Dr John, There is also Tyroler Groestl.
I made the mistake of trying to eat at a restaurant in Les Arcs 2000 that would only serve food to particular tables.
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France in unnecessary Kafkaesque bureaucracy shocker.
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I presume that pizza counts as a 'snack' and tartiflette is a meal (or something). We had a similar(ish) experience at Parc Asterix - come lunchtime, my wife wanted a hot dog, so we went to one of the kiosks which we had seen selling them to be told they are not 'lunch'; apparently they are OK at 5 to 12 but not at 5 past 12. We got some 'proper' lunch (sandwiches and beer) and my wife left the park and sulked in our motorhome. The boy and I enjoyed our afternoon.
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You know it makes sense.
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I've been turned away from a literally *empty* cafe on the basis that we weren't allowed to only have a round of drinks.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I shall not name the mountain restaurant in my resort.
Walk in to empty restaurant,
"We'd like to eat please."
"Have you booked?"
"No"
"Sorry, you can't eat here then."
"But there's no-one here?"
"Yes, but we only serve pre-booked parties." 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Dr John wrote: |
| Bode Swiller, no, but then if you don't want sausage or goulash your pretty much screwed |
Not sure which Austria you've been to. And, you mean Goulash, that dish from a different country entirely.
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| Fattes13 wrote: |
| Bode Swiller, Correct but you have to deal with resteraunts with live animals in them very strange |
The customers?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but is Goullash Hungarian I was once told it roughly translates as 'left overs' ??? But I think it's something do do with beef?
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Goulash is fricking awesome. It is traditionally Hungarian but you can get it everywhere round there (Slovakia etc.). I reckon it would be great skiing food too...
A lot of traditional dishes come from peasant food so it may well translate as left overs.
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Grizwald, yes it is Hungarian but he's probably thinking of Gulaschsuppe which isn't quite the same thing eh?
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| Grizwald, yes it is Hungarian but he's probably thinking of Gulaschsuppe which isn't quite the same thing eh? |
That's just a German way of saying goulash soup...
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bobmcstuff, yeah but traditional Hungarian Goulash isn't a soup.
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Goulash can be a soup or stew. Both traditional Hungarian (somewhat obviously?). I lived on goulash soup while I was travelling in Hungary and Slovakia cos it was cheap and delicious.
Can't believe I'm arguing about soup on the internet... Still, beats work eh.
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| bobmcstuff wrote: |
| Can't believe I'm arguing about soup on the internet... Still, beats work eh. |
But this IS vitally important. Dr John slagged off an entire nation's cuisine on the basis he thinks an entirely different country's national dish is one of only two things you get offered in an Austrian restaurant. Now, you appear to be deliberatley heading down the old "when is a soup not a soup" routine just to wind eveyone up. Mods...
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You know it makes sense.
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Just roll with it.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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paulio, That's the EU for you. This argument started in a French restaurant and has got as far as Austria & Hungary.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Funny, history suggests things usually start the other way round - generally, in a vague sort of geographic sense....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Never Hungary after an Austrian restaurant
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Bode Swiller, not that old argument... Worse than the helmets and snow tyres ones combined! 
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We were in La Baule in the summer wanted a drink on one of the beach restaurants, 'bout 3pm and was told we couldn't sit there becuase they only served food at those tables ..... no one there at all. Many similar experiences that can be recounted 
Love France but the French can be so up there own a**e* at times
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It's part of French nature to be @rseholes. Probably cos they lost so many wars. Chip on the shoulder and all that.
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| stevew wrote: |
We were in La Baule in the summer wanted a drink on one of the beach restaurants, 'bout 3pm and was told we couldn't sit there becuase they only served food at those tables ..... no one there at all. Many similar experiences that can be recounted
Love France but the French can be so up there own a**e* at times |
so were we, we go there frequently and that is a common response on that stretch of beach at that time, however the ipanema is not bad for dinner.
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Are we going to get Bratwurst, Kartoffelsalat, Sauerkraut and Frankfurters in Austria? (Hope so.)
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bobmcstuff,
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| paulio, That's the EU for you. This argument started in a French restaurant and has got as far as Austria & Hungary. |
No. Was answer to question. Gulaschsuppe have just roll with it. Goulash have also potato.
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Bode Swiller, Correct but you have to deal with resteraunts with live animals in them very strange
The customers?
Na there is a place in Saalbach that has a stable with horses and goats in it
So, you find ONE restaurant with some farmyard animals in it (presumably not wandering free around the tables) and you characterise the entire Austrian culinary experience as being the same.
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There is actually 2 like this in Sallbach and on in Saas Fee but was not intending to say they where all like that.
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