This was our first lunch in Paris. We popped into a small sandwich shop for a quick lunch. My sandwich was on nice bread that was chewy on the inside and crunchy on the outside but sweeter than a baguette. The ham was nice, and I liked the sliced hard-boiled eggs. The vegetables were not the best, but overall, it was a decent sandwich for a quick lunch.
This was not the best dinner ever. The fish and cream sauce was okay on flavor, but the fish was very overcooked. The bread was just some white sandwich bread, not so great. But the salad was very nice with tender lettuce and sweet corn, sprouts and tomato, carrots and endive. It was not a terrible meal, but I hope to never have to eat it again.
This was a very strange but tasty dish. The hot gratinèed ham was delicious spread on the chewy bread.
This salad jumped right out of the menu at me. Who wouldn’t want to eat a mushroom and bacon salad? The salad was made up of a buttery lettuce somewhat like Boston, tomato wedges, cucumber slices and crunchy croutons with a creamy dressing. The salad itself was a good salad, but then they decided to make it an awesome salad so they topped it with a heaping pile of warm mushrooms and bacon. The bacon was awesome, like it always is when it’s actual bacon, from the belly. And the mushrooms were heavy and earthy. It was an incredible salad, one of the best salads I’ve ever had!
Charity’s first course was a shrimp croquette with salad. The croquette was hot and creamy on the inside, with a really crispy exterior, and very delicate flavors, which pared very nicely with the salad and simple vinaigrette.
I had no idea what to expect when I ordered Flemish stew. I was pleasantly surprised. The tender chunks of beef were in a really great silky ale and beef gravy. I would have appreciated some carrots, onions, and peas in the stew. The frites were crispy and salty. The apple compote was a nice sweet relief from the very salty stew and frites. Overall, a very strange lunch combination, however, very pleasing and I will definitely try to make this at home.
This was our very first taste of Belgium after a long day of riding buses and trains. We needed a snack to keep us going while we tried to figure out how to get from the train station to the address of our bed and breakfast in the rain. The waffle was cheap at about 2€. It was perfectly crispy and soft at the same time, covered in an amazing chocolate sauce that was a little bit salty and not too sweet. It was warm and crunchy and amazing! And from the train station even!
I’ve wanted to try Atomic Burger since my first week in Oxford, and I finally did! We used some coupons we found in a magazine to get free milkshakes and chips with our burgers. What a deal! We ate with our Oxford friend Stu and our DeKalb friend Eric. It was a pretty good meal. I ordered the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s burger” which was cleverly named as it included a fried egg (breakfast) and onion rings (Tiffany’s). It was very tasty. The meat was juicy, the egg was fried to perfection with a runny yoke. The bun was crispy with a thin layer of flour, (I love it when they do that). The onion rings were perfectly crisp and slightly sweet. The chips had a generous dusting of some type of spicy concoction that gave them just enough kick to not be forgotten. The milkshake was smooth and creamy, and cold.
Charity had the bacon barbeque cheeseburger with carmelized onions. The burger was greasy and delicious. I enjoyed the real bacon after only getting English bacon for the last week. It was really good but I couldn’t finish it, I only ate half. The chips were nice and spicy, and the milkshake was sweet and refreshingly cold.
Our friend Nick suggested that we try a traditional English cream tea before leaving England. It made for a great afternoon snack. The tea was nice and warm. The scones were pleasantly crisp on the outside and tender and crumbly on the inside with plump, juicy raisins. The clotted cream was something we’ve never had before. It was like butter mixed with whipped cream, and slightly sweet. The jam tasted of fresh English strawberries.
Our first real meal in Bruuge! We picked a cute little restaurant with outdoor seating near the river. I ordered a delicious steak with Roquefort sauce. The steak was perfectly cooked rare, as can be seen by the juice leaking into the Roquefort sauce. The sauce was very smooth and the Roquefort flavor was not overly strong, nor was it too scarce, it was the perfect cheese sauce. The salad was a great accompaniment to the steak, as it provided a fresh taste with each bite. There were greens and tomato and cucumber and a bit of watercress. The frites were well done, crispy and salty. A great first meal in Bruuge.
Moules and frites were delicious. The moules had been cooked in white wine and garlic. They were tender and flavorful, and the liquor at the bottom of the pot was absolutely delicious, I enjoyed it just as much as the mussels themselves. The frites were a bit undercooked for my taste, I prefer a crispier frite, however, they were liberally salted and still tasty. The Bruuge Zot was cold, pleasantly savory, and satisfying.
This was a delicious appetizer we had at the King’s Arms. It’s a hardboiled egg wrapped in sausage, rolled in bread crumbs, and fried. We topped it with something called “Oxford Sauce” which was pretty much some rebranded brown sauce, I think. The egg was served cold, and it made for a great appetizer/bar snack. I wish we had these back home. (Adam’s opinion)
The most exciting meal EVER!!! No joke! This dish excited my taste buds like no other dish ever has before. The “bacon”- I’m calling it “bacon” because English “bacon” is not bacon at all. It is an extremely fatty, yet dry, very thin piece of over-salted, limp ham.
I think the chef started the tomato sauce with “bacon”, then added the lamb liver to the bitter, sickening sauce to cook and release all its disgusting minerally, gagging nastiness to the mix. The lamb tasted and felt like eating a filthy penny covered in sand and soap scum with a tender jelly center. I have never hated anything so much that I almost barfed when my taste buds registered all its’ “complexities”… until this lamb liver in tomato sauce. I am so glad to finally find a food/ dish that I absolutely, unquestionably abhor. The veg was the only edible part of the meal, in my opinion, (Adam ate the liver!!!???!). Every somewhat decent meal will feel like a blessing from heaven itself after this “I’d rather spend a day in hell than take another bite” dish.
I was blind, but now I see!
This was the first not-so-good meal I’ve had from Pret. They let me down. This burrito-like wrap was bad news from the beginning and I should’ve known. You get what you deserve. The sauce was way too sweet, and not nearly spicy enough to balance. Just poorly done in general. The soup was good though, I’ve had it before.
Very nice lunch! The soup was served very hot- perfect. I really loved the soup because it had toothsome bits of onions, garlic, and fresh tomato in the really fresh, perfectly seasoned tomato base. The sandwich was very unique. I’m still not sure what “pickle” is exactly. I would describe it as a sweet, slightly vinagary carmelized onion or maybe fig …chutney? Not sure , but it was a really nice fruity complement to the properly stinky, mature English cheddar. The coffee was energizing and good, as usual 🙂
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