Tag: Haute Savoie
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Cidre Biscantin, Serraval, Haute Savoie
We went to the market in the pouring rain. In spite of the continuous downpour the stallholders were cheerful as we all knew that we needed the rain, that ‘the sun will come out tomorrow’.
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Salon Gastronomique in Thones, Haute Savoie
« Quand les gourmets se rencontrent au palais magique de la curiosité et de la créativité culinaire » “When gourmets meet at the magical palace of curiosity and culinary creativity” Possibly a touch of hyperbole, I thought, in this description of the 15th Salon Gastronomic (Food Fair) in our local main market town in Haute…
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The roundabout restaurant in the Alps
As you arrive at the roundabout in St-Jean de Sixt on the last leg of your journey to the Aravis ski resorts of La Clusaz and Le Grand Bornand in Haute Savoie, you can’t help but notice an untypical cabin-like building immediately on your right. Over the few years I’ve been coming to Chalet Balaena…
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Lunch in the Mountains 1
The sun came out, and so did we! We skied up, we skied down then we clambered aboard the chairlift to take us up to La Taverne where we were in time to get a table on the terrace overlooking a sea of mist covering most of Le Grand Bornand. La Taverne is a mountain restaurant in…
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Sunday Market in Alpine France
One of the many summer delights in Le Chinaillon, our mountain village in the Haute Savoie, is the Sunday market. For just eight weeks in the height of the season stalls take over a section of the main road offering a cornucopia of delights. We went to the market this week but I didn’t take…
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All the Nines: Ninety Nine and others
One evening in February we invited four friends, all wine lovers, to a dinner with the theme of drinking wines from vintages ending in ‘nine’. Guests were invited, and we arranged between us what wines we would bring from our cellars – as you can imagine with older vintages more reds were available so we…