Bateaux Parisiens
What’s special about this experience is dining on a restaurant boat, which is docked right next to the Eiffel Tower 🗼. While dining, the boat circles around the nearby attractions. The meal duration is about an hour and a half, during which you can generally see seven or eight major landmarks. However, since we chose the dinner option, visibility was limited, and I only noticed three or four landmarks illuminated at night! But being able to dine around the Eiffel Tower already felt very delightful.
As soon as you board the boat 🚢, dedicated staff offer champagne and introduce the red wine selections. There’s a QR code on the table you can scan to choose your meal for the day. The menu typically offers two options for each course, allowing you to select from appetizers, main dishes, and desserts. As we are dining as a couple, we chose completely different meals to try everything.
❤️ Appetizers
One of the appetizers was foie gras. I personally found this restaurant's foie gras to be quite strong in flavor; without the accompanying sauce, it might leave a slightly gamey taste and isn’t as palatable! However, the other appetizer was quite impressive, resembling an octopus🐙 tower, topped with pickled vegetables, paired with octopus and escargot. It had a very French flavor profile and was perfectly seasoned, making it a very appetizing and pleasant starter!
❤️ Main Courses
For the main course, one dish was fish🐟 while the other was steak🥩. Both main dishes were delicious. The fish was incredibly fresh, and the sauce didn’t overshadow its natural flavors; instead, it enhanced the taste. The steak was cooked perfectly, tender, with a lovely pink center, allowing you to fully enjoy the beef texture—truly a perfect main course!
❤️ Desserts
I felt that the dessert was the weak point of the entire meal; however, perhaps it is seen as a great success in the eyes of the French, as it was just too sweet for Asian palates. I could only manage one bite of the chocolate cake before giving up, while I struggled to finish the lemon cake 🍰, which had more of a lemon sorbet feel to it, offering a sweet and sour sensation. Still, once it melted in my mouth, it leaned towards being overly sweet!
Overall, I would actually recommend this experience. It’s a wonderful outing, being able to enjoy dinner while gazing at the Eiffel Tower feels particularly romantic. It’s a pity that the dessert didn’t meet expectations, but for those with a sweet tooth, it may be just perfect! I encourage anyone interested to give it a try!
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