Cheese and biscuits in Paris restaurants
 

Am I correct in thinking the cheese is done before dessert in paris or is it the other way round? Also if you were to recommend cheese and biscuits in any of the following, which would it be... Laperouse, Tour D'argent or jules verne?

Thanks people.

In some restaurants, cheese is the desert.

In better restaurants there is often a cheese course before dessert--but you ar unlikely to be served biscuits with the cheese. In France it's bread, sometimes different kinds; walnut is popular with blue cheeses.

The three restaurants you name will undoubtedly have excellent cheese trays. Your waiter will push up a cart of bring a tray of cheeses to your table and ask you which ones you would like. The big problem is getting small slices.

In that category of restaurant, there will almost certainly be a cheese course with the trolley of at least 10 varieties, before dessert.

You will not have biscuits.

You may get biscuits with ice cream or sherbet but not with cheese

Thanks everyone, we opted for cheese in Tour D'argent. They looked very confused when we requested biscuits (silly me) but the bread did not dissapoint. It was quite fruity and very moorish.

Before dessert but never had the cheese served with biscuits except in the USA.

suz214 - thanking you for getting back so quickly letting us know what transpired. So often posters ask for advise and are given numerous recommendtion and they we never hear from the again.

So glad that your lunch went well even though you didn't get your biscuits. Just proves how adaptable you are in a tough situation :-))

Nina

ooooops, meant advice not advise .. it was a typo - not a mispeling (like this is) :-))

Nina

Chigalechanta: &quot;<i>Before dessert but never had the cheese served with biscuits except in the USA.</i>&quot;

Biscuits in this context is not what you are thinking about in the States. Biscuits are either savory - crackers in USA-speak, or sweet - cookies in USA-speak.

Cheese and biscuits simply means cheese and crackers.

Yes I know and what I meant :)

Then I'm confused - what did you mean not ever having cheese and biscuits anywhere but in the States??

Meaning cheese in France was only served with bread, not crackers. At Times,
I serve cheese with rice crackers when a friend visits as she cannot eat wheat.

OK- so you mean you've ONLY had cheese courses in France or the States - now I understand -- duh :)

Where else than USA/Canada and (sometimes) UK can you get &quot;biscuits' with cheese ?

I've gotten &quot;biscuits&quot; or crackers with cheese courses a number of places -- certainly all over Scandinavia, in the Netherlands, and even in Spain and in Italy. I'm still trying to think if I've ever been served crackers of some type with cheese in France. It really seems I have, but admittedly bread is more common.
I nearly always substitute cheese for dessert if possible, so trust me -- I've had a LOT of cheese courses in Europe.

Want to do something fun? Google &quot;Cheese and biscuits - Paris&quot;. You'll love the first hit there!

Meanwhile there are a number of others including a major food course in Paris in which every menu includes &quot;cheese and biscuits&quot;.

...&quot;Want to do something fun? Google &quot;Cheese and biscuits - Paris&quot;. You'll love the first hit there!...

Fantastic neopolitan LOL! I feel famous!

I've never had crackers in France, period, with anything.

Even in the US, I don't think one is served crackers/biscuits with cheese in a fine restaurant when cheese is a dessert course. Serving crackers with cheese is for a snack or hors d'ouevres, isn't it? At least, I've never seen crackers served with cheese as a dessert course anywhere.

I don't usually eat cheese as a dessert, but I think in the restaurants where I tend to go in Paris, you are usually offered one or the other (if it's a prix fixe), not both.

In all of the years that I have lived in France, I have never seen cheese served with crackers, either in a restaurant or a private home.
It is quite possible that Air France served crackers on the meal tray with the cheese, but I definitely know that they regularly come through the cabin with more bread, as the majority of the French passengers will require it.