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sfllaw

Ubuntu Developers Summit Paris, Day 1

Jun 29, 2006 17:32

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conferences, food, paris, photos, canonical, p.u.o

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jgotangco June 30 2006, 10:39:44 UTC

I could still remember the pounds of bread rolls being forced to us!

sfllaw June 30 2006, 13:26:49 UTC

Stale bread, no less!

ringzero June 30 2006, 13:56:49 UTC

There's an amazing restaurant on the Champs Elysées, up near the the Arc de Triomphe... I think it's across from the Moulin Rouge.

ringzero June 30 2006, 13:59:07 UTC

I thought I'd add that apart from that restaurant, the only other good meal I had in Paris was at a tiny Italian Pizzeria run by an Algerian immigrant.

sfllaw June 30 2006, 14:15:16 UTC

From what I can tell, you can find decent restaurants by looking at the menu. This is what I did, and I had some very good meals in town.

surprised ringzero July 2 2006, 08:56:03 UTC

as a Parisian, i was really surprised by the chosen location of the UDS.
Staying in a hotel at the airport is convenient for 24h but can't be fun for a week... more a nightmare !!
and thinking you will discover french food in an airport overpriced hotel chain... well it can't make sense.
Anyway next time, I suggest the person in charge for this kind of Paris summit contact locals/Parisians at www.ubuntu-fr.org to get cool addresses...
Porte Maillot is a good business address for such meetings... and people can enjoy a lot more Paris.
And finding a good chinese restaurant in Paris is a difficult quest ;-)

janviere July 6 2006, 15:35:23 UTC

Ah yes, I remember eating cafeteria food in France. You could always identify the vegetarians as the ones wandering around forlornly with a small pile of shredded carrots on their plates. The French are insanely good at hiding things like raw fish in otherwise innocuous salads.

Thank you for your posts about Paris, they made me happy.

sfllaw July 6 2006, 15:39:38 UTC

You're quite welcome!

It does seem like the French really revel in their meat. So much that they'll blanch vegetables in chicken stock, which is admittedly rather tasty.

pphaneuf July 6 2006, 19:20:21 UTC

Yeah, the vegetarians around here, they look pretty sad. And I think the vegans are all dead.

pphaneuf July 6 2006, 19:21:52 UTC

Baked goods here are fine, at least of a nominal level.

But coffee, eurgh. I found a place that has tolerable coffee. Tolerable. Isn't that fantastic?

sfllaw July 6 2006, 20:32:42 UTC

How can this be?

France is known for its baking and coffee. How can it be just tolerable? For goodness sakes, they brought good coffee to other countries. That's why French imperialism was slightly redeemable.

pphaneuf July 7 2006, 06:08:10 UTC

The baked goods are just fine, even those from the local Tim Horton's equivalent are quite decent, I find.

But the coffee, it's like I told you when I came back from my trip last February, it was terrible. We get "café crème" all the time instead of espresso, to try to save it a little bit... And even then, it often doesn't so it, and you end up pouring sugar like mad.

To give you an idea, at the tolerable place I told you about, I can drink the café crème without adding sugar. But I'll put some anyway, as I'd like my coffee-drinking to be enjoyable. :-)