food in paris
 

Hi all I need some help, I am going to the europeans in paris next week and I am a bit worried about the food. The last time I was in France I asked for a steak well done what arrived was a very bloody piece of meat that looked as if it would have been back on its feet if there had been a good vet in the house. Now I dont mind my meat a little raw !!!!! but Im sure it ate most of the salad and all the chips !!!!!!!! how do you ask for a cheese sandwich in French ?

Don't worry there's a McDonalds on the Champs Elysee. Le Big Mac will be fine!

Steak tartare
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"poutine"

bad bad girl x

le big mac !!!!!!!!!!! what about my waistline

and I am a bit worried about drinking johny foreigner beer, I really hope they sell stella. I mean how can you trust a country that dosen't even play cricket !!!!!!!!

because you are obviously not french, if you order a steak 'well done', the french are likely to think, "you have absolutely no idea what you are doing if you order a steak well done. this is france and we do not do steak 'well done'. i fart in your general direction and will bring you what you obviously intended to order... if you were french."

i'm being only mildly sarcastic with that.
unless your french is pretty stout, you'd probably get a steak "more cooked" if you attempted to order medium-rare.

this is just my perception.

seriously, though, if there is no salt/pepper on the table and you really, really want to piss off the waitstaff and/or chef, just ask for the salt/pepper.... because the food was perfectly seasoned when it was brought out to you. if it needed more salt, the chef would have put more salt in it to begin with. for you to add more salt means you are killing the specific taste the chef intended you to experience.
(but maybe that's just the case at higher end restaurants)..

I bet brown sauce will be out of the question then .

Kronenbourg 1664 is French.

You competing?

I bet in any European capital they have:

1. Mcjunk
2. Chinese restaurant
3. Italian restaurant
4. Places where to buy biscuits and yogurt
So there is no way you’re going to starve

And would it be so bad to actually try wine if you’re traveling to France ? ….just a thought http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/wink2.gif

You could broaden your horizons and try something a bit different?

Wait, what am I thinking? That's not the English way.

...or it wouldn't hurt for you to starve for a few days, 1cut... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

You can drink any French beer if advertised as being from Alsace. Alsace beer is German beer, well was prior to 1918, but the brewing has not changed.

Leave room for this good stuff. Don't worry about your waistline - the portions are small and expensive. Your wallet will lose more weight than you gain.

This is what you have to say to get a steak the way you would like it in Paris:

"Bonjour, je suis une petite fille britannique et je suis trop sensible pour goûter à de la viande. Pouvez-vous cuire mon steak jusqu'à temps que ça ressemble à une semelle de soulier?"

Roughly translated that means: "Hi, I'm a little, British girl, I'm too sensitive to taste meat. Please cook my steak so that it is the consistency of a shoe."

There are plenty of good restaurants that will let you choose how they cook your meat, but not all. If you go into Leméac in Montreal (a good restaurant... probably very good actually) they will ask you how to cook the veal liver (take it "rosé" by the way). However, at the Pied de Cochon (a very highly regarded restaurant), you don't get a choice as to how to cook the steak on the menu: They cook it, you eat it.

Anyway, if you want a steak "well done" you say that you want it "à point". However, if you think anyone is going to serve you something that doesn't have a bit of blood still in it than you shouldn't have the steak. It would never occur to a chef in the lousiest of Parisian bistros that someone wanted a steak so overdone that is not even a little bloody.

Cheese sandwich is sandwich au fromage... but the cheese in question might be made from unpasteurized milk and as such probably bit too much for you. Actually, just order a "croque-monsieur" (grilled cheese sandwich with ham inside), those are good and the staple of every bistro in Paris I've ever been to.

Just go for "Tête de veau"....

Kronenberg 1664 cant be french (little F) it tastes too good, unlike their raw meat !!!

but goth wine is for girls..............in England we treat wine as forplay

interesting ..........considering we ruled a third of the planet...........we didnt do that by eating raw meat