In 2006, after years reporting in the Middle East, I moved to Paris. It was an accidental choice, the serendipity of a sublet through a friend of a friend. It was meant to be temporary; at the time I was just looking for somewhere to hole up and finish a book. My friends all said: “Oh Paris, how lovely! You must be eating well.” They were surprised to hear me complain that Parisian menus were dull and repetitive. “Paté followed by nothing but entrecôte, entrecôte, entrecôte.
Congrats on the most bourgeois, caviar socialist cuisine review you have probably ever printed. This was a truly fascinating descent into the incredibly blind to privilege mind of ´Wendell’ 👏🏻
Go and eat your boiled beef. We do not discuss tea. Do not discuss cuisine.
This article is very personal and represent only a certain POV. But the reality of french food in a major city like Paris is more complex than that. Depending on the money you like to spend on a menu, your revenue and also and the amount of time you like to spend at the table...
Massively over rated
I think there's a lot to love about French food if you do away with the laziness and complacency which has encroached on it over time.
If you are French it never fell. It's apart of daily life, we don't care who else eats it.
Creme and asparagus and bloody meat : french cuisine
I like French food but, damn, that photo 🤢😳 nothanks
OMELETTE DU FROMAGE
Trouble with french cuisine, the portions are small, but the cuisine is delicious 😋
Is it a brain?
Truffles may be radioactive from Chernobyl
To be fair, fifty years ago, the bar was set fairly low....
Nojo
This looks gross. Good read though.
French food has a long way of excellence before the other countries. Believe me 😋
Not my kids 🙄 “We grew up ... eating frogs’ legs with our fingers, tasting wine we were too young to drink, learning the etiquettes of napkins-in-laps and fish forks. By the time he was six, my little brother liked to order six snails to start & then a dozen for the main course”
G'HOSTING: ROBERT KRAFT- BROKE INTO MY HOUSE 3 NIGHTS IN A ROW W/ELECTRIC SHOCK JOHN TO PROSTITUTE MYSELF. ☆HE SEX GROOMED ME SINCE 1955. ☆TONIGHT, I TOOK OFF MY SHORTS, ALL THE SURVEILLANCE 0perators WITNESSED ☆WITNESS TAMPERING ☆PROTECTED POLICE BRUTALITY WITNESS!
Went to France, french food was almost not available, except for baguettes and Nutela crepes.
Just ate in Paris for a week. No failures at all. Fabulous cuisine galore.
don't even know what that is but it looks hangin
just add more butter, there done.