Plates

For an after dinner drink you can't beat Frangelico - delicious!

Underhill

If you'd like something non-alcoholic, ask for a tisane, a herbal tea. The best for settling the stomach--especially after a very late dinner--is verveine (verbena).

mr_go

My favorite after-dinner drinkables are Italian (Amaretto, Frangelico, Limoncello, whatevero). If you want to stay French, go with the Cointreau or Grand Marnier (for dessert)...or cognac, armagnac or calvados (not so sweet).

Mathieu

Cognac or better still, Armagnac for me.

Just to be sure, Liqueurs and 'sirops' and 'Creme de....' have sugars added during the fermentation/steeping process resulting in a sweet end product, whereas 'Eau de vies' tend to be just the fruit steeped in pure alcohol resulting in a liquid which usually isn't sweet at all. I have a bottle of Poire Williams (with the pear in the bottle) and it definitely isn't sweet at all (but tastes great warmed in a snifter on a freezing night like yesterday Kirsch (cherries) is another such and many of these unsweetened fruit alcohols are consumed as 'schnapps'. Some are definitely an acquired taste.

sheila

The local one is always a good one to try.

Armagnac, cognac and calva are good failsafes.

Underhill

Another good one is marc, preferably Marc (pronounded mar) de Bourgogne. It's good either straight or as a dash in your after-dinner café.

sheila

I've just remembered the name of the local stuff to us- floc de gascogne- worth trying when in the south west.

cigalechanta

And in the Auvergne, there is Asuze, very much like the Suze I drink .