Eating food in France is fun, exciting and at times challenging. If you’ve never eaten food in France here’s some good choices to make. If you have you can still keep reading.
Over the Thanksgiving Holiday I spent some time in France along with Germany and Switzerland. I had the pleasure, for the most part, to try new foods and eat some familiar food. The familiar food was without a doubt really good. I absolutely love eating ham and cheese with butter on a baguette and the best place to get one in my opinion is at a Patisserie in France. At least that’s where we tend to buy them. Another food I’m familiar with is a pretzel. Alsace, France has some pretty good ones. The pretzel comes either plain or with cheese. Both taste good.
I have had fondue before and Crêpes as well, but in France it tastes so much better and the experience is awesome. Especially when you’re experiencing it with the people you love. My family and I found a cute little Crêpes place our first night in Strasbourg, France. I had Crêpes with banana’s, chocolate ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate drizzle. Yeah, that was good. So good we went back there on our last night in Strasbourg and I had a Crepe with Nutella and banana’s.
The fondue place we went to is quite popular, so we made sure we got a reservation for our second day in Strasbourg. That place was cool. They gave us a platter with about twelve different types of cheese to try. I ate what I could and ventured as much as my palette would let me. However I don’t like any kind of soft cheese. The fondue on the other hand was fun. Dipping each piece of bread into the mixture of different cheeses and oil was super fun.
I did get to try a tarte flambée one night and liked it so much I had it one more time that week. I got to try choucroute which tastes so much better than sauerkraut does in New York.
Oh, before I forget! We found these chocolate covered marshmallow type snacks called Schaumkussen (no I can’t pronounce that word, but feel free to try) at the Christmas Markets in Strasbourg, France that taste so amazingly good. My family and I tried one each and loved them so much we bought a nine pack for the next day as snacks.
There was this one restaurant that was rather out of the way to get to (Auberge du Ried). All I can say about that place is it was quite the experience. It was one of those days where I had to try something new in a foreign land and I happened to have a headache that day. All I can tell you about that place is I liked some of the food which is better than not liking any of it. The dish that was ordered for me was a type of ham with potatoes. Sadly it was way to salty for me to eat. However the dish that was ordered for my daughter was a meat pie of sorts and that was delicious. So when she got full, I gladly finished it. Dessert at that place was also good.
Our last night of our Thanksgiving vacation was spent in Zürich, Switzerland. On that night we went to a restaurant and I ate the most delicious sausages I’ve ever had. That says a lot coming from me since I don’t like sausages that much. There was also a very buttery hash brown type side dish that was just as delicious. That made a perfect end dish to my vacation in France, Germany and Switzerland.