Lunching at La Fonteyne

Today two friends and I went to a really nice restaurant called La Fonteyne. On the bottom floor there is a store with prepared foods and on the top floor is the restaurant. I had never been there, but I am sure glad that I went! There are daily specials - of which I ordered a plate of couscous, ratatouille, and a Lebanese meatball. I thought that it was fairly priced, and since it was recently one of my friends' birthday, we ordered a bottle of Cava for only 18 Euros! You can not beat that price in a restaurant.

For dessert, I ordered a magnificent Pavlova. It was absolutely wonderful. The Pavlova came in a large bowl with cream at the bottom, fresh berries in the middle and the meringue crisps on top. I could not have asked for a better dessert. The best part, was that we were all given small, beautifully decorated cupcakes along with our desserts.

Cutest little cupcakes that came with dessert

Best Pavlova

Tonight, DH and I are going to my absolute least favorite store in the world - Carrefour. It is a Wal-Mart type store that sells mainly food but also has other household items for sale as well. There are two reasons why I hate Carrefour. The first reason is the nonsensical placement of food items. For example, if you are looking for olives, don't look where the pickled items are. Look in the potato chip and pretzel aisle. Or if you are looking for sugar, don't look in the baking aisle. Look by the milk. Consequently going there takes at least an hour. The other reason I hate it is the people that work there. The workers never seem to know what the store has in stock. Recently, I was looking for a clip-on book light. After explaining this to an associate, his reply was, "It doesn't exist". Really? book lights don't exist? Another time, we needed garbage bags (in the community we live in, we have to pay 40 euros for a roll of 20 garbage bags. This is so we don't have to pay an extra monthly cost for garbage pickup). We couldn't find the type we needed, so we asked an associate. He proceeded to tell us that we do not need to pay 40 euros for trash bags, we should just drop off our trash in a different community to get out of paying the money. Nice. That's Belgium for ya.
P.S. The corn soup from yesterday? Fantastic! the cognac really added a different taste element!