French food in France
February 10th, 2007 | 
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Everyone in the world seems to have the impression that French food is the best in the world. But is it? Down in the south of France, the answer is very definitely “no”.The menu that just about all of the local restaurants offer is determined by whatever pre-prepared food they can buy in the local cash & carry. The net effect of this is that there is next to no variation between one restaurant and another as each one serves the same bland diet. In fact the only variation that you’ll find is in the typeface and layout of the menu itself because the cash & carry don’t preprint those.
The only exception to this seems to be the excellent Auberge du Cellier where Pierre will regale you with a trully excellent French meal. Ironically, his restaurant receives dreadful reviews although that is to your advantage as it means that it’s relatively easy to get a reservation. How come the bad reviews then? Simple really: Pierre concentrates on the food and largely ignores everything else which is just how it should be whereas the restaurants that receive the good reviews concentrate on everything else and don’t bother too much about the food.
So if you want to eat an excellent French meal, try any French restaurant outside France or the Auberge du Cellier down here.
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The article says “So if you want to eat an excellent French meal, try any French restaurant outside France or the Auberge du Cellier down here.”
I say, if you want an excellent french meal, make yourself friend with some french (and NO, they are not all anti-american as long as you don’t make crazy anti-french “jokes”) and get invited for lunch or dinner with french people !
If you don’t have time to do this, than go to a good restaurant, not a cheap one ! You want good food? than you need to be prepared to pay for it…
French food is bad? why is the french life expectancy one of the best in the world (79.73), far ahead of the US (77.85)
I fully agree about eating with French is amongst the better ways to get a good French meal. We have French cousins and are always impressed with what they put out when we visit.
To be honest, I’ve yet to find any anti-American French. Having said that, I do know that at least some Americans think that the French in general are anti-American but then if you go around assuming that people are against you, you’ll generally find that they are (even if they aren’t!).
French food as such isn’t bad. What is bad is the way it’s preparared in this area. Even quite good restaurants serve up pre-prepared meals when you’d expect that they would cook things fresh.
Life expectancy stats are very misleading in common with all stats. For one thing, American society is much more varied than it seems to be in France. The fairly sizeable chunk of “very poor” doesn’t really exist in France and I suspect that if you stripped those out of the American stats, you’d find that life expectancy in America was significantly higher.