The restaurants are always fantastic, food is wonderful and wine is fairly priced with good selection
The restaurants are OK if you are even a little selective, you are guaranteed good food and fairly priced wines
The restaurants are OK but wine can be expensive with limited choices
The food is good but wine is generally overpriced
The food is hit or miss and the wine is always good
The food is hit or miss and so is the wine
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There have been almost as many agreements or at least partial agreements with my statement than attacks saying im full of shit. So maybe a poll would be interesting, of course the first replies will be i missed some option that they have found but it is what it is.
I have dined and drunk in many countries - but never as fine as in France.
Sure you have to be a bit selective - as everywhere, also in the US - but the odds are quite high in France that you will find excellent food and very interesting wines - and also at reasonable prices if you don´t limit yourself to *** or several tocs.
I voted taht the food was hit or miss and so is teh wine. taht’s because if it misses it’s not very goodbut when it hits its quite good and if I want morocan food seriously I’ll go to moroco.
This, and the other thread from which it spawned, is just silly. There is a huge range of quality in restaurants, both in France and here in the U.S. Do just a little homework (like some quick searches here), and you’ll have a plethora of options, depending on budget and food interests. You can eat and drink very, very well in both places for under $100/couple, or spend many multiples of that and not eat/drink that well.
Yeah, why wasn’t that option available in the poll? As Alan Rath points out, all the others are inconsistently true at best. But that one is true with some consistency.
What would anyone think if a European came to the US and wrote the following:
I went to California where the food and wine is all supposed to be fabulous. I went into a restaurant that seems to be very popular called Applebees. The food was very mediocre and the wine list terrible. Then, the next night I went into Outback. I guess the steaks were ok (but the wait was horrific). Again, the wines were terrible. All American restaurants seem to be terrible and the wine drinking in the US sucks.
Sitting in my hotel room in Lyon, laughing at this poll, after my wife and I just finished a wonderful meal, with wine, at Restaurant Les Adrets. Total bill for both of us was 99 Euro.