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Post by JohnnyD on Oct 17, 2021 10:59:30 GMT 1
Looking for the finest French restaurants? Go to London, not Paris
Not only that, but the Italian restaurants are better than Rome’s. Really, why bother going abroad?
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Post by Polarengineer on Oct 17, 2021 11:05:02 GMT 1
That's only the English taste for French or Italian food. It's like the different tastes served by the chinese restaurants in different countries. They all cater for the local tastes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 11:31:05 GMT 1
Totally agree PE ,how many things do you see on a menu in France you don’t see in the UK ‘French ‘ restaurants?
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Post by ibis on Oct 17, 2021 11:39:32 GMT 1
I imagine it is just like coca cola - it tastes different in each country as the water they add is different in each country/region...
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Post by hal on Oct 17, 2021 11:51:41 GMT 1
Not only all these , but prices are a big factor.
I regularly have lunch during a weekday at a local 2 Star restaurant here - 45, maybe 50€ AND they are friendly, AND the chef is there pretty well all the time making sure all is well. Treble this price, and more, in London. This buys you some 'I am better than those outside' snob value, and the chef is probably off trying to augment his poor income in some piss poor reality TV show!
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Post by woolybanana on Oct 17, 2021 12:24:59 GMT 1
London restaurants have to pay huge rents and rates and perhaps higher salaries. Most places outside London offer excellent fare at excellent prices. Whereas your two star has much lower overheads, I suspect.
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Post by ibis on Oct 17, 2021 12:33:48 GMT 1
London restaurants have to pay huge rents and rates and perhaps higher salaries. Most places outside London offer excellent fare at excellent prices. Whereas your two star has much lower overheads, I suspect. Not to mention importing the raw food to the island. |
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Post by woolybanana on Oct 17, 2021 12:45:00 GMT 1
Chefs often use UK produced food and, outside London, locally sourced. It is a point of honour I think.
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Post by Veem on Oct 17, 2021 13:55:22 GMT 1
We were recently planning to eat out with friends and were torn between our two favourite French restaurants. They are about the best around in this area. One had pigs' trotters on the menu and the other had snail club sandwich. On this occasion we went elsewhere.   |
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Post by woolybanana on Oct 17, 2021 13:57:54 GMT 1
Pity you missed out on the pig’s trotter, brilliant stuff.
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Post by traveller on Oct 17, 2021 15:59:58 GMT 1
Yes I love pigs trotters, in restaurants now though they’re likely to be shredded and wrapped in filo pastry. Take the point about rates etc. In London, I still prefer the authentic French restaurant in France. Off piste a bit but the pigs trotter thing reminded me of when I was working in my worst job ever in a steel works in Sheffield, but my boss used to buy a large cow heel every Friday which we devoured with salt and vinegar, don’t thing I could do it now, although I did also enjoy the dripping crusts from the canteen at tea break, no wonder I’ve got high cholesterol!
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Post by FFS on Oct 17, 2021 16:54:29 GMT 1
That's only the English taste for French or Italian food. It's like the different tastes served by the chinese restaurants in different countries. They all cater for the local tastes. I'd be pretty sure that the head chefs in each restaurant are French or Italian, who would make few concessions for the English palate. In the time pre-Brexit, it would have been a lot less expensive and administrative to open such a restaurant in London rather than in Paris or Rome. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 17:07:05 GMT 1
I imagine it is just like coca cola - it tastes different in each country as the water they add is different in each country/region... More to do with how acidic (read gut-attacking) coca cola is. With all the additives it tastes nice but not very good (diabolical) for you. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 17:14:04 GMT 1
Curries made in the UK (Birmingham being the capital) are made to the UK taste and in no way represent the food in their original environment.
Probably cuisines from other countries have been equally bastardised.
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Post by ibis on Oct 17, 2021 17:17:50 GMT 1
I imagine it is just like coca cola - it tastes different in each country as the water they add is different in each country/region... More to do with how acidic (read gut-attacking) coca cola is. With all the additives it tastes nice but not very good (diabolical) for you. that acidity would be the "water" from the country it is bottled in. Though I am sure coca cola specifies what Ph the water has to be when adding to the syrup. |
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