{"id":1555,"date":"2012-10-16T22:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2012-10-16T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:25:14","slug":"foodie-travels-london-and-paris-welcome-dinner-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"Foodie Travels – London and Paris – Welcome Dinner in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

After leaving Foxhills Resort we made our way to Paris.\u00a0It was a truly exciting and busy day.\u00a0 We took a bus to the train station, grabbed a quick bite in the station (it was so quick and at a ‘chain’ restaurant that it’s not even worth writing about).\u00a0 Then it was on the Eurostar to Paris!!<\/p>\n

After arriving in Paris we headed straight for the Eiffel Tower.\u00a0 Some went all the way to the top, some halfway and some of us stayed on the ground.\u00a0 We decided on our\u00a0last trip that the city wasn’t as spectacular when the tower wasn’t in site, so we stayed below and explored.<\/p>\n

After the \u00a0Eiffel Tower\u00a0it was on to our hotel, The Hotel du Collectionneur Arc de Triomphe (formerly Hilton Arc de Triomphe) where our\u00a0welcome to Paris to dinner awaits.<\/p>\n

Up\u00a0until this point it had been a\u00a0fantastic Foodie trip.\u00a0\u00a0It seemed that\u00a0almost everywhere we ate\u00a0we had great\u00a0food.\u00a0 There would be more great food to come, but this particular meal was a huge disappointment.\u00a0 It was so bad that it\u00a0was almost a shock to our systems.\u00a0 Pretty much everyone on our trip had compaints about the food\u00a0during this particular meal.<\/p>\n

While it all looked good, nothing seemed to taste right.\u00a0 The appetizers were appealling and plentify, but all were a disappointment.\u00a0 The fish tartar basically tasted like old, chopped up fish.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There were\u00a0 vegetables that while not particulary bad they didn’t seem to have any seasoning or flavor at all.<\/p>\n

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The mini quiches seemed to\u00a0have been the least offensive offering on the cold side, but still they were\u00a0bland and had a strange texture that some\u00a0folks found too unusual to even try,\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The biggest offender of\u00a0the appetizer selections was chicken enrobbed in a white sauce.\u00a0 Not only were they\u00a0cold but no one could identify the actual flavor of the sauce.\u00a0 One person thought it might be white chocolate – which immediately gave me fits!!<\/p>\n

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One bright spot of the appetizers were mini hamburgers.\u00a0 While not great, they didn’t seem to offend anyone and were the most palatable of all the appetizers offered.<\/p>\n

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Hot dishes consisted of macaroni in a red sauce, fish in a lemon sauce and chicken in some other kind of sauce.\u00a0 To be honest at this point I actually stopped eating the entrees they were so bad.<\/p>\n

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The desserts were where I really got angry.\u00a0 They all looked so delicous that I coudn’t wait to dive in.\u00a0 I thought my reward for sitting through such an awefull meal was going to be dessert.\u00a0 Boy, was I ever wrong.\u00a0 They ranged from bland to so tart you couldn’t even eat them.\u00a0 What a disappointment.<\/p>\n

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There was of course the obligatory cheese plate.\u00a0 Thank goodness for that or I may not have eaten at all.<\/p>\n

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