Auberge du Lion d'Or

From the menu...

Salade de poulpe (18chf)
Paillarde du porc facon du chef (28chf)
Dessert du chef (14chf)

Wine:
Pinot noir de Geneve, 2010 (32chf)

There was lots of discussion on the first night about what exactly our approach was going to be. While turning up to restaurants and ordering canettes and calzones has suited us fine in the past we came to the conclusion that such a "grand tour" was worthy of a little more culinary refinement. This conclusion was arrived at while drinking our first beer, so should of course should be seasoned to taste. For my part, I decided that wherever possible I should take at least one plate "du chef/a la maison".

This led me to try a dish unknown to me...paillarde du porc. What could it be?! Go on, guess...

Well, it turns out that paillarde is a schnitzel. Not very glamorous I admit, but a good wholesome peasant food start to the tour. I've had a lot of schnitzel during my time in Poland, but this was certainly one of the best. My guess would be that the original recipe was the chef's polish grandma's and was modified slightly by some culinary school seasoning skillz thrown into the bread-mix.

The real delight of the meal was the dessert. For some people this is true of any meal, but usually I'm more of a fatty/greasy/meaty main course kinda guy. Dessert is just punctuation. But, after a long period of indecision the waiter suggested that instead of "or" I should consider "and": dessert du chef is a selection of all the desserts. Yum!

Considering the dessert alone this place would be a solid 8 "FaceTwats" (out of 11 FTs). But, we can't eat only sweets, and so with a strong 7 FTs for baba's schnitzel and 6FTs for the pulpo (which should only ever really be served a la gallega anyways), the food score comes in at a respectable 7FTs.

The scoring system is not yet fully specified and it completely arbitrary. But, knowing the crowd, I'm sure someone will propose some Bayesian technique to re-normalize the scoring, only for someone else to do it with a maximum likelihood method. Que ludicrously long statistics argument....don't worry folks, I don't know anything about it either.