Cafe de Paris, Monte Carlo

Cafe de Paris, Monte Carlo

Jul 08, 2011

    

We headed straight for the Cafe de Paris for lunch. It was as posh as I remembered and they managed to find us a table among the many that seemed to be reserved. Most of the reserved tables were eventually taken apart from a large one in the corner.

Tom started with melon. When it arrived it was the least sophisticated thing I'd ever seen. No thin sliver of melon but a huge half melon with the seeds scooped out, plonked down in front of him! It was probably the freshest, ripest melon we'd eaten in years.

After almost 2 weeks in the Mediterranean we were gasping for something ethnic so picked chicken curry. It was hardly authentic, but made a pleasant change from pizza and pasta.

For dessert we went for creme caramel which for some reason was marked on the menu as being "tax free" and therefore only 9€ instead of 10€ like the other desserts! This was truly delicious, lighter than we are used to
and with a thinner, runnier sauce.

We noticed an advert for the Monaco Music Festival and saw that Janet Jackson was the opener that night. Guess whose entourage sat down at the last reserved table just before we left?!

We finished off with cafe au lait and then spluttered when the bill showed up at over 100€. I guess that's the price you pay to eat with Janet Jackson's entourage!