We wanted to try raclette for the first time, so we visited this restaurant for dinner…read more
Boyfriend ordered a martini, and was surprised when the waiter asked him if he wanted a red or a white martini. In his many years of ordering martinis worldwide, he has never been asked such a question! The waiter oddly insisted that there's both red ones and white ones, which makes us curious as to what a red martini would have in it! Boyfriend wisely opted for the "white" one, very dry, and it met his very low expectations.
I ordered a less complicated Aperol Spritz.
Boyfriend ordered the frog legs as a starter, which he had all to himself, because I just couldn't.
We shared the Raclette with Slices of Duck and Potatoes. To state the obvious, this is a lot of cheese. Basically, cheese with other food items playing a minor role. The waiter put a very 19th century looking contraption on the table, and told us to be sure not to touch the cheese block with the sides, as it would fry the cheese, and bad things might happen! (Like a fire?? Is this thing even safe? Oh, the things that you could not do in America abounds here).
Regardless, the Raclette was quite cheesy and delicious, and we ate most of it. (Did I mention that it was a LOT of cheese)?
A nice bottle of red wine accompanied our cheese meal, and we ordered two Absinthes as after-dinner drinks. The absinthe (again perhaps stating the obvious) was REALLY strong!! I poured the remainder of our bottle of flat water into it and asked for more.
All in all, I had a lot of fun here. We laughed a lot, and the bill was around 100 euros for all of that (4 drinks, bottle of wine, starter, shared raclette plate).
Boyfriend didn't like it as much as I did, but I would definitely come back to try the red martini, if nothing else!