Chartres Meals

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Le Phare Saint Louis IV

Upon checking in and scoping out Chartres, we had a few hours before meeting the tour group.  We were kinda hungry and dinner wasn't going to be till 7pm.

Lucky I saved the receipt and see that two orders of Nicoise salad was ordered by the ladies and the gents had a formule meal....the Fraicheur, which included a salade au choix (choice of salad) and either a galette or a crepe au choix (choice of crepe).  I chose the Cesar salad and the Pommeraie crepe.  Second crepe with ice cream in France.  Was not a fan of the melting ice cream. 

In addition to finishing off my meal, I finished off Marlene's salad.....way too much food for her?  Also not liking the horseradish in the salad.

 

Café Bleu

The first of many group dinners took us to a quaint restaurant.  We got to sit by the back wall.  Probably should should have taken more pics, but the only one I too was the main course,  chicken with potatoes and a sliver of lettuce sliver.  There was also a pea soup appetizer.  Alas no documentation of a dessert.

The food was, as my kid might say, MEH.  It was OK , but it was not special.  The pea soup was a bit better than the chicken dish as far as taste goes.

 

Crêperie La Picoterie

I couldn't remember this place until I checked with Michael.  It then came back to me.  This is the restaurant where I had just one more crepe, and probably my last ever.  My foolishness came to me when I decided to get the special of the day at a creperie.  If memory serves (...and it often doesn't....that's why I began the trip writing things down.  Now I know why Todd took the time out to document "everything".). 

Meal included, from what I wrote, a crepe with salad,  prosciutto and baked apples.  The odd additon was the dessert touted as "rocket ice cream".  It was also known as arugula ice cream.....one of the most vile tasting ice cream I've ever eaten......Marlene had a different opinion as she polished it off and liked it.   I did not get a pic of the actual food ordered, but I did take a snapshot of the menu listing.

 

Le Café Serpente

We might have run out of things to do in Chartres as we tried to get into Serpente before the dinner chef got in.    We ended up ordering ice cream and as soon as we were done, we were able to order ouir dinner meal.  The party oredered salads, but not NIcoise.  Being different I order what was billed as "Andouillette (5A) « maison Darmigny » sauce moutarde à l’ancienne, haricots verts frais" (an intestine sausage with a mustard sauce).  You could tell it was "home made", but it was perhaps one of the most tastiest sausage I've had.  One just had to get used to the fact it did not look like ground meat.