Monday, February 22, 2016

Not quite there.


The year is picking up pace. It's light early in the morning now. The school half term has started so there are no cars to disturb our morning walk.


Bob spies a gnome in a villagers garden. He is greatly taken with it. The villagers, like the French in general, are great gnome fanciers. At the latest count the village has a population of 17 gnomes.


The German billionaires multi-storey garage is having the terracotta floors taken out and a new grey marble floors put in. The marble will be less harsh on the tyres of his Ferrari collection. Bob christens all the flower pots arrayed outside. Non-verbal canine architectural criticism. The grey marble ( visible beneath the doors ) does not blend well with the limestone.


We go to lunch at a little restaurant in the hills. We've never been in a restaurant where the tables are so far apart. The menu is of the modern 'challenging' variety. All goes reasonably well until the dessert. Potato millefeuille with black truffle jelly and chocolate sorbet. This is not a success. 'The  Font' struggles for something positive to say and finally suggests that the technical skill required to pull it off isn't quite there yet. Whatever you do with black truffles there will always be an overpowering hint of garlic.


12 comments:

Coppa's girl said...

We'd never have taken Bob to be gnome fancier...far too sensible a chap, but there you go !
Potato, truffle jelly - and chocolate sorbet - all together? No, I don't think we would have struggled to say something positive....it sounds....well...unappetising (to be polite)!

Bella Roxy & Macdui said...

Perhaps the waitstaff use wheelchairs.....

WFT Nobby said...

Perhaps the German billionaire should cheer up his property with a wee garden gnome or three?

Julie said...

Angus, did you really count the gnomes?

Coppa's girl said...

Obviously a slow Monday morning !

potty said...

To kill French fancied birds with one stone... Are any of the gnomes dressed as Father Christmas?

Sheila said...

Nothing the GB has added to that garage blends with the limestone. Pots are wrong, doors are hideous.
They might as well have used cinder block.

Pamela Terry and Edward said...

I heard Jacque Pepin share his standard comment when the food is substandard.... "You'll never be better than you were today."
I'm filing that one away for future use.

Angus said...

Wonderful.

Angus said...

A dog owner has to have something to do on those chill early morning perambulations round the village.

Emm said...

The Font is truly a master diplomat. Perhaps the restaurant spent so much on truffles there was nothing left to buy more tables.
As for the GB's garage, less said the better. Sheila's pretty well nailed it, above.

Kari said...

Rather nice not to be crowded in like most restraunts these days.
That garage is absolutely ugly. All money and no taste.