Category: food & drinks

  • Lausanne food porn: Anne-Sophie Pic @ Beau-Rivage Palace – part 2 (Flickering Stars)

    Lausanne food porn: Anne-Sophie Pic @ Beau-Rivage Palace – part 2 (Flickering Stars)

    This is part two of the food porn post of my birthday dinner at Anne-Sophie Pic at the Beau-Rivage Palace.  Read part one here. We had rose champagne to start and a Petite Avrine white wine from Valais (a low production local specialty). The water glass was remarkably beautiful – a Baccarat. Sue chose the Autumn menu which…

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  • Lausanne food porn: Ann-Sophie Pic @ Beau Rivage Palace – part 1

    Lausanne food porn: Ann-Sophie Pic @ Beau Rivage Palace – part 1

    Last week, to spoil ourselves a little bit, Sue booked us a table at Anne-Sophie Pic at the Beau-Rivage Palace for dinner.  The restaurant (ASP|BRP) which earned two Michelin stars in 2009, is named after the chef who was voted by the Michelin guide as the chef of the year in 2007.  She “imagined” the…

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  • Kaki, Cachi, Loti

    Persimmon – Kaki or Cachi, Loti – as they are known here in French/German and Italian. We have seen two types of persimmon here all imported from Italy. By far the most lusciously sweet and soft fruit is the one on the right.  The one on the left is firmer and the texture resembles that of…

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  • Home made soup

    Sue made this for dinner last night.

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  • Lunch at Colmar in Alsace

    On our way to Europa Park (see earlier post), we stopped by Colmar in Alsace for lunch.  We exited Switzerland via Basel and chose to drive on the French side of the Rhine – Colmar was a little less than three hours drive from Lausanne.  It is the Alsatian wine capital and with the Vosges mountains…

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  • Satsuki at Chamonix

    Satsuki at Chamonix

    Satsuki is a Japanese eatery located just outside the pedestrian precinct of Chamonix. Brightly lit and packed at dinner time, it was. I was expecting a disappointment when I first saw the restaurant.  But it turned out to be an authentic Japanese restaurant. The menu was fairly simple but the food tasted right.  The patrons…

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