Monday 29 August 2011

sunday morning's at sète





What I really love about cafés in France is the relaxed attitude towards bringing your own food. It's more than tolerated, it's actively encouraged. We often go to Sète on a Sunday morning & always to the same café, waiting for a table if needs be. We bring pastries brought from a local boulangerie & sometimes stay long enough to order a plate of oysters & mussels from les Halles across the road. The waiter then brings us each a glass of wine that he's chosen, always a different variety for me & another for F.

I spotted these biscuits on our last visit. As a child we called them 'snail biscuits' & I spent many an afternoon baking & promptly eating them.

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13 comments:

  1. yum to those biscuits! and what a drastic difference from American culture where it is completely frowned upon to even think of bringing your own treats to a cafe where you didn't buy their food. sad, yes?

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  2. As always, these photos are magic!
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  3. I wish cafés around the world would do the same. Lovely photos.

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  4. Ces biscuits ont l'air délicieux!

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  5. I used to have one of those biscuits after school. You captured them perfectly. :)

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  6. A lovely Sunday morning ritual. As a child we called them pinwheel cookies.

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  7. oh how you make me miss france!!! lovely photos

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  8. the biscuit photo is perfect. and visiting sète is on my list for the next france trip...

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  9. The photos and the colors are beautiful. And the first image is very, very tasty.

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  10. These are all gorgeous photos and those swirly pastries look so yum!

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