Day 1 - Part 2

Not a big update - just went out to dinner at a wonderful spot - Les Philosophes. We had a great bottle of wine and some amazing food. Ordering is definitely not our strong suit. It takes us a solid 5-10 minutes to make sense of the menu and even then it's spotty at best. We ended up doing the Prix Fixe - 3 course meal. The first course we both got the soup de jour - the name of the soup was written on the wall but the translation wasn't in our book so we took a chance - however it started with creme and who doesn't love some creme. In the end it was basically cream of potato soup and quite delicious. For the second course Lora got steak de thon (tuna seak) and up until the last second we really thought it was going to get some red meat - great save by our translator book. I got the saumon and I didn't even need the book for this one because if it wasn't going to be salmon then I would have been pretty upset with the English translation. Lora ended with a cheesecake that was a bit more fluffy than I'm used to and even though it didn't mention a thing about lemon it might as well have been lemon merengue pie - Alan got the creme brulee and it was spectacular.

The meal was great - service not top notch but nothing to be angry about either. We still are skeptical about the whole tipping process and just leave a euro or a few depending on the cost of what we ordered - definitely not as much of a tip that we usually leave in the US though.

All in all it wasn't as great as some of the wonderful Christmas home cooked meals we've had throughout the years but still very good.