Saffron-yellow 🧈 the likes of which doesn’t exist where we live, morels w/ Comté 🧀, Dublin Bay 🦐 , and a wine list where every bottle seems a bargain. 😁
Lunch at GAYA ⭐️ by Pierre Gagnaire. 🥂🇫🇷🍾

Tous les fromages (“all the cheese”) at Le Petit Royaume at Marché Maubert — a must-stop for turophiles (cheeseheads - the refined kind 😉) when in Paris.
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The Food Gal has a thing* for old-ass Parisian restaurants that are older than America itself and used to be used as glorified brothels.

* Actually, it’s her husband’s “thing.” 😉🥂

Lapérouse Paris

The French do it better, and Pierre Gagnaire does it best of all.
#Gaya #Doversole #Dublinprawns #Spidercrab
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Having flunked it twice in school, my knowledge of French has been reduced to two phrases: “La Carte des Vins, s’il vous plait,” and “tous les fromages.” 🇫🇷😋🍷🧀

Travel logic: flying 5,500 miles, for 16 hours, to happily shell out for top shelf hooch like you would never think of doing back home.
🤔😉😋🍷🍾🥂

L'Ambroisie

Lunch was a simple affair: if 8 courses, 5 wines, 7 cheeses, caviar, flawless foie w/ morels, delicate-yet-rich roasted pigeon and superb San Pierre 🐠 w/ saffron are your idea of uncomplicated.
😉😋🍽️🇫🇷🥂🍷🍾
#BernardPacaud
#LAmbroisie
#troisetoiles ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Le guide MICHELIN

My happy place: the ultimate (French) no-frills kitchenware shop.
E.DEHILLERIN. 🇫🇷🔪🍴🍽️🫖🍳🥘👨‍🍳🎛️

Travel logic: Spending $1,800 flying to France 🇫🇷 so you’ll only have to pay 1.40 💶 for a croissant 🥐.
🤔

These f**king bastards make one of the best croissants in Paris🇫🇷.
#thefrenchbastards 🥐🥂🥐🥐
Eat. Talk. Repeat.

I must confess: the real reason we returned to Gay* Paree wasn’t for the food, the wine, the strolling, shopping or sightseeing…the real reason was to calibrate my KWAA-sant palate for our Eat. Talk. Repeat. summer contest.
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* as in joyous and full of mirth 🥳😉😄

Nothing like a dripping-with-history, 110 year old expat bar, full of Americans, to get you started drinking in Paris🇫🇷.
#HarrysNewYorkBar 🍸🍹🥃
#French75 🥂

I am sad to report that Le Grand Vefour - Paris’s second oldest haute cuisine palace - has been turned into a glorified bistro. Which is the Parisian equivalent of The French Laundry deciding to join GrubHub.
😢🥺

Paris, again, paisans…because we gotta see the City of Light before it lights up for the The Olympic Games. 🇫🇷🤩🥳🎉🍾
First up:
selfie shot: #PlaceVendome
wine bar: #CavesLegrand 🍷
cocktail bar: #HarrysNewYorkBar 🍸
classic café: #CafeDeLaPaix 🥂

Dungeness love a great crabmeat cocktail?
For some reason, they always taste better in the Pacific Northwest.
🤔😋🦀😍
#JakesGrill #PDX

The sky was looking ominous so l asked Siri,
'Surely, it's not going to rain today?'

And she replied, 'Yes it is, and don't call me Shirley.'

That was when I realized I'd left my phone on Airplane mode.

Happy #MondayPunday

I’ve finally found a PDX wine bar worthy of my palate. @DomaineSerene #Portland #Oregon #PinotNoir 😋🍷🥂🤩

Raw, stewed or fried, we go a little nuts w/ our ‘erster eating when we get to the Pacific Northwest. (We ignore the ‘R’ rule, since they’re so damn fresh up here.🤩)
#DanandLouisOysterBar
#Jakes
#oysters 🦪😋🦪

ICYMI: Your tempestuous tasting trio tackles the #LasVegas restaurant territory 🍽️….leaving no hot take untold.
⁦Eat. Talk. Repeat.⁩
⁦Sam Mirejovsky⁩
⁦Ash⁩
🎙️🍽️😋🍾🥂😖😅🗣️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eat…

Proof-positive that if you put enough shite on a doughnut (Pretzels , TANG, NyQuil(?)), the world will beat a path to your purple-pink door.
#VoodooDoughnuts
#PDX
#includemeout
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