Posts under ‘Food and Drink’

This is a local post in my series of nice places to visit. Yesterday I had a meeting with colleagues in the building where I used to work until the Spring of last year. It is in a district of Geneva called “Grand-Pré” which itself is next door to “La Servette”.
We had afternoon tea in [...]

It was my father in law’s birthday earlier this month and as usual most of the family got together for a meal yesterday. My brother in law recently acquired the running of a restaurant in another part of Geneva so naturally, but for the first time for this annual occasion, we went to his restaurant.
We [...]

From memory, Swiss chocolate Easter Eggs are differently packaged from those available in the UK although with globalisation this might well have changed a lot since I left! I did promise to show some pics and here is some photographic evidence of what we are finding in the shops now.

I’ve been reflecting lately on changing (again) my lifestyle. Last year when I was ill I lost some weight but unfortunately put it all back on in the following months. What I really need to do is to change my eating habits (sounds easier than going on (yet) another diet) and increase my physical activities.
Everything [...]

Well we almost celebrated Pancake Day yesterday. I say almost because we finished by having a Crêpes Party with savoury and sweet crêpes. In the end there just wasn’t the time to get it all ready and to be honest my wife and son prefer savoury “pancakes” to sweet ones.
I guess I’m displaying my pancake [...]

My daily (well almost daily anyway) visit to Chippenham Blog - which is a great place to visit by the way - led me to a post mentioning carnivals and street happenings in Chippenham, UK, the town where I was born.
Deep in the post our hostess mentions “Pancake Day” which I remember with fondness [...]

From my last posts you might have the impression that I am spending a lot of time in restaurants. Well today was no exception and I had a working lunch with my colleagues at a local “Oriental” restaurant La Palmeraie which is not far from my office. We had the “plat du jour” which conveniently [...]

My wife and I went to a restaurant with friends this evening called the e-wok at a Shopping Mall called la Praille.
I’m afraid it wasn’t as good as it usually is, maybe a case of bad luck, and was much too greasy for me.
I took a photo of my good friend Louis and told him [...]

This is a loose translation of the previous post for French speaking readers.
J’ai suivi une formation en cette fin de semaine et j’ai rencontré Laurent Naef qui est également guitariste et professeur de guitare.
Il me dit qu’il joue pendant les brunch du dimanche au Britannia Pub ici à  Genève jusqu’au et y compris le 17 [...]

Yesterday evening we went to the Little India restaurant, close to the mainline station in Geneva, to celebrate David’s birthday.
It was the first time that we ate there but it won’t be the last. Complimentary aperitifs were offered as we chose from the menu (see link above) and we chose the “Menu de dégustation” and [...]