You can check prices of menus at a restaurant and before your visit. For example, I have a birthday meal planned. I can go online to check the restaurant menu.
Food Checks
Check the dishes online. Make a quicker decision when I reach the restaurant. Check alternatives if I have an allergy.
Translation of Menu Dishes
What is sourdough bread?
What are chips and crisps in the UK?
Chips - known in the USA as French fries. Usually long oblongs of potato like the ones you get with burgers in fast food outlets.
Crisps - usually deep fried wafer thin potato slices, served cold.
Translation of Menu Wines
What is a 'garage wine'? Good or bad/ Cheap or dear?
What is a 'grand cru classé'?
A 'luxury cuvée'?
A 'premier cru'?
What is vintage port?
Wine Checks
Then check the wines offered. See what matches my food choice.
Price Checks
Check the supermarket price for the wine. Even buy a bottle in advance and try it out. Decide if the wine by the glass is a bargain or overpriced.
Corks and Transporting Leftover wine
See if the wine is sure cap or corked. If I am driving, or the host is driving, and you have to order a bottle, take my own cork in case the restraint throw it away. Take something for transporting the half full bottle home.
Website Updates
Phone the restaurant to find out if the online menu is the same or if it has been updated. Are there any daily specials?
Stools and Chairs
Am I going to be perched on a high stool? (If so, don't wear tight skirt. Wear Stretch skirt.) Can I request a table with upright dining chairs instead of a stool?
Early Arrival Waiting
If they don't open until 6 pm and you plan arriving earlier, is there a pub or coffee bar nearby? Is there a coffee bar at the station where you can meet other members of the party who are likely to get lost or need help (especially those with walking sticks who won't want to double their journey by taking the wrong route.)
Coffee or Tea Locations Afterwards
After the meal, does the restaurant offer the decaffeinated tor other coffee you want, or the herb tea, or is there a nearby coffee bar, nearer the station?
DIY Nibbles and Nosh
Take my own nuts or olives if I am likely to be waiting a long time for others, or chocolates to go with any coffee. Very discreetly.
Leftovers Bags
Take a plastic bag to cover takeaway leftovers or opened bottles of wine carried home. Take insulated bag for leftovers, or food shopping done in their deli which has to be kept fresh during a two hour meal and one hour travel home.
GLOSSARY
Bearnaise - (Info from Wikipedia)
Bearnaise or Béarnaise sauce (/bɚrˈneɪz/, French: [be.aʁ.nɛz]) is a saucemade of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs. It is considered to be a "child" of the mother Hollandaise sauce, one of the five sauces in the French haute cuisine mother saucerepertoire.[1] The difference is only in the flavoring: Béarnaise uses shallot, chervil, peppercorn, and tarragon, while Hollandaise uses lemon juice or white wine. Its name is related to the province of Béarn, France.[2]
Châteaux (French plural, the hat represent a missing letter s reminding you that the word is similar to root word castle or in German Cassel, fine houses or castles)
chorizo - Pork sausage coloured with pepper, from Portugal or Spain, strong flavour, uncooked and in my opinion fatty and unhealthy
cuvée - pronounced in French coo - day
garage wine - limited production, new producers, not aged, yet high price because of novelty, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garagistes
Gressingham duck - has more breast meat - for more information see
http://www.gressinghamduck.co.uk/products/fresh-duck
Premier Cru - premier is first, as in a French word used in English for the first showing of a film (in the USA movie) premiére; premier in French is pronounced prem-ee-ay. The French don't pronounce the last letter/consonant of words.
Saint - saint - in French pronounced Sant, whereas in English pronounced say-nt
Websites
http://www.bordeaux.com/us/vineyard/appellations
Google wine searcher.com
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer,
Food Checks
Check the dishes online. Make a quicker decision when I reach the restaurant. Check alternatives if I have an allergy.
Translation of Menu Dishes
What is sourdough bread?
What are chips and crisps in the UK?
Chips - known in the USA as French fries. Usually long oblongs of potato like the ones you get with burgers in fast food outlets.
Crisps - usually deep fried wafer thin potato slices, served cold.
Translation of Menu Wines
What is a 'garage wine'? Good or bad/ Cheap or dear?
What is a 'grand cru classé'?
A 'luxury cuvée'?
A 'premier cru'?
What is vintage port?
Wine Checks
Then check the wines offered. See what matches my food choice.
Price Checks
Check the supermarket price for the wine. Even buy a bottle in advance and try it out. Decide if the wine by the glass is a bargain or overpriced.
Corks and Transporting Leftover wine
See if the wine is sure cap or corked. If I am driving, or the host is driving, and you have to order a bottle, take my own cork in case the restraint throw it away. Take something for transporting the half full bottle home.
Website Updates
Phone the restaurant to find out if the online menu is the same or if it has been updated. Are there any daily specials?
Stools and Chairs
Am I going to be perched on a high stool? (If so, don't wear tight skirt. Wear Stretch skirt.) Can I request a table with upright dining chairs instead of a stool?
Early Arrival Waiting
If they don't open until 6 pm and you plan arriving earlier, is there a pub or coffee bar nearby? Is there a coffee bar at the station where you can meet other members of the party who are likely to get lost or need help (especially those with walking sticks who won't want to double their journey by taking the wrong route.)
Coffee or Tea Locations Afterwards
After the meal, does the restaurant offer the decaffeinated tor other coffee you want, or the herb tea, or is there a nearby coffee bar, nearer the station?
DIY Nibbles and Nosh
Take my own nuts or olives if I am likely to be waiting a long time for others, or chocolates to go with any coffee. Very discreetly.
Leftovers Bags
Take a plastic bag to cover takeaway leftovers or opened bottles of wine carried home. Take insulated bag for leftovers, or food shopping done in their deli which has to be kept fresh during a two hour meal and one hour travel home.
GLOSSARY
Bearnaise - (Info from Wikipedia)
Bearnaise or Béarnaise sauce (/bɚrˈneɪz/, French: [be.aʁ.nɛz]) is a saucemade of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs. It is considered to be a "child" of the mother Hollandaise sauce, one of the five sauces in the French haute cuisine mother saucerepertoire.[1] The difference is only in the flavoring: Béarnaise uses shallot, chervil, peppercorn, and tarragon, while Hollandaise uses lemon juice or white wine. Its name is related to the province of Béarn, France.[2]
Châteaux (French plural, the hat represent a missing letter s reminding you that the word is similar to root word castle or in German Cassel, fine houses or castles)
chorizo - Pork sausage coloured with pepper, from Portugal or Spain, strong flavour, uncooked and in my opinion fatty and unhealthy
cuvée - pronounced in French coo - day
garage wine - limited production, new producers, not aged, yet high price because of novelty, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garagistes
Gressingham duck - has more breast meat - for more information see
http://www.gressinghamduck.co.uk/products/fresh-duck
Premier Cru - premier is first, as in a French word used in English for the first showing of a film (in the USA movie) premiére; premier in French is pronounced prem-ee-ay. The French don't pronounce the last letter/consonant of words.
Saint - saint - in French pronounced Sant, whereas in English pronounced say-nt
Websites
http://www.bordeaux.com/us/vineyard/appellations
Google wine searcher.com
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer,
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