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Best meals in Côte d’Or: La Grilladine encore!
Frau Grounds has just pointed out that my account of how we spent Tuesday afternoon comprised activities which actually occurred the next day, except for the bit about tasting white wines. Not that one should let the facts get in … Continue reading
Best meals in Côte d’Or: La Grilladine
We returned to Beaune after our lunch at Meursault, parked the car at our hotel, freshened up and headed off to stroll around the old town centre. Exploring Beaune on foot is a pleasant and interesting activity. There several pedestrian-only … Continue reading
Best meals in Côte d’Or: Hotel du Centre, Meursault
Tuesday dawned with the promise of a cool but mostly dry day, ideal for touring. After a satisfactory breakfast at our hotel, we took the N974 south to explore the Côte de Beaune. We hoped for experiences that would make … Continue reading
Best meals in Côte d’Or: un petit surpris en Epinac
During our three days in and around Beaune we had five happy dining experiences. The simplest of these was in the village of Epinac, just off the main road from Autun back to Beaune; I chose it on a whim … Continue reading
Burgundy travel miscellany
Here are some miscellaneous experiences and observations about visiting the Côte d’Or region. Grand Cru, Premier Cru and all that jargon A meaningful part of our experience was to drive through the wine districts on secondary roads that traversed the … Continue reading
Beaune & Cote D’Or
As I begin this post we are having some quiet time in our Dijon hotel; this is wise after spending a sinful amount of money on food and wine since we arrived in Burgundy! This part of our adventure began … Continue reading
Dinner chez Pramil
We first dined at Pramil restaurant in December 2009. The meal was excellent but the experience was muted by the fact that none of the staff spoke English and I was only half a day into refreshing my schoolboy French. Last year, … Continue reading
Our weekend in Paris
As I begin this post, it is late afternoon on Sunday. This evening we will conclude our visit with dinner at Pramil, a fine restaurant close to our hotel. The menu looks very interesting! The weekend got off to a … Continue reading
Lots of pepper on a last supper
What will we eat on the last evening on which we will be have time to cook a meal from scratch? (Thursday’s pre-flight dinner will comprise various leftovers, delish but dullish.) Well, there were two pieces of rump steak in … Continue reading
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