Food of the May Europe Trip: Part 1 - Paris (except JR)

Just some plane food
From Toronto to Paris we got an upgrade which was a huge bonus, along with the bed-seats came food. It was actually the highlight of the trip until day 2 as the first two meals in Paris were abysmal. So, let the games begin:

Atlantic smoked salmon with Sweet Potato Blinis, Asparagus and Mustard Dill Creme Fraiche

Roasted Chicken stuffed with Ratatouille in a Morel Mushroom Sauce with Basmati Rice, Green Beans and Cherry Tomato Confit

Selection of cheeses

Breakfast: fresh fruit, yoghurt and a muffin

All in all a pretty good offering.

Day 2 has been intentionally left unphotographed so as to not disgust you
The two pieces of advice I will leave you with is don't eat at Le Café Des Officiers near the Eiffel Tower and if you're over by La Defense there are better places to be found than Pizza Pasta Mama. I know, shocking, right?

French food is saved
I forget what we had for lunch when we went to Versailles but it couldn't have been terribly memorable but I decided to get some online reviews for dinner since I knew we'd be over by Eiffel again. So, I found this place called Le Beaujolais which turned out to be a pretty decent find. Rach had the salad (you can't see it in the picture because it's covered in prosciutto so that's a pretty damn good salad if you ask me) and I had the pan fried steak (been YEARS since I had pan fried!) and both were great.

Trust me, there's a salad underneath that bread and prosciutto... I think

Pan fried steak and salad - what you can't see is the plate of fries and loaf of bread that accompanied this!

When in Paris... have Lebanese Food
So after an adventure waiting for service at another cafe for about 10 minutes we found this place called Beirut Cafe after our trip to the Eiffel (yep, 3 times but this time we walked up!). We split a couple apps but really should have just had one. They were both good but we didn't really need that much food.

Dip platter: Baba Ghanoush, Hummus, Tabbouleh and something else I don't recall...

Ground meat in a pita, how could you not love that?!

And now for a random Salad Nicoise...
Okay, so it's not random but I didn't photograph my meal this night for some reason but it appears to have fries... it was okay if I recall but Rach said the salad was good.