Editor Pick
Salon de Thé Christian
- June 27, 2001
- Rated 4 of 5 by
food&fun from Truckee, California
As you look in the windows of this tea salon and pastry shop, try not to drool too much. The pastries and chocolates look so perfect you might think they are not real. They are, and, unlike a lot of pastries, they taste as good as they look. After a day of hiking around Strasbourg, we stopped for an afternoon snack in the tea salon. After ordering our beverage of choice (hint -- they make a killer hot chocolate), we went into the pastry shop and picked out what we wanted. The server plated it up and brought it to us. I had a wonderful multi-layer chocolate cake with a hint of raspberry. At the table next to us two "ladies of a certain age" (as they say in France) were engaged in a heated discussion with the server about the merits of the various flavors of house-made sorbets and ice creams. They each chose three flavors, and shortly were each presented with a beautiful tulip-shaped glass filled with their choices, topped with whipped cream and a mint sprig. This was a relaxing break in the day, and we left ready to pound the pavement some more. If you, too, want to experience the sorbets and ice creams, there is a little ice cream stand right outside the entrance. Among the 10 or more flavors were rhubarb, wild strawberry, melon and black currant. You can also pick up something from the pastry shop to take along with you. A midnight snack back at the hotel, perhaps?
From journal France with a German Accent