Restaurants in Calais

[BensGrandad]

We are as it is cheaper than a weekend we should have had away in Exmouth that was lost due to family bereavement. Going to Belgium on Saturday to get the family tobacco helps offset the cost and we are not at home on call. Also somewhere different to go for dinner Saturday evening.

 

[theboybilly]

Le Defenseur Gauche?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

We are as it is cheaper than a weekend we should have had away in Exmouth that was lost due to family bereavement. Going to Belgium on Saturday to get the family tobacco helps offset the cost and we are not at home on call. Also somewhere different to go for dinner Saturday evening.

If you are going into Belgium then why not go to Bruges for the weekend? It's only an hour's drive from Calais.

 

[Del Fenner]

Another vote for The Jungle.

 

[Grassman]

Going to Belgium on Saturday to get the family tobacco

The 'family tobacco', wonderful.

 

[Springal]

I feel like I've gone back to the 1990s

 

[The Birdman]

Check your boot before you come back.

 

[BensGrandad]

If you are going into Belgium then why not go to Bruges for the weekend? It's only an hour's drive from Calais.

Its an hours wasted drive Friday evening plus Belgium is dearer hotels and food. Adinkerke is 30 mins drive from Calais so 1.25 hours of Saturday taken up the rest taken up with shopping etc in Calais and relaxing in hotel.

 

[BensGrandad]

The 'family tobacco', wonderful.

Neither I nor wife smoke but 2 of my sons do so buying them their tobacco saves them money, although I have tried to get them to stop smoking. Me gettjng them tobacco does not encourage them as they would do it either way just pay more.

 

[fleet]

Au Cote D'argent - seafood platter is wonderful, as is the cheese and the desserts. Been there several times and always good.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

There WAS one called the Jungle, which has a wide range of world cuisine

regards
DR

 

[severnside gull]

Neither I nor wife smoke but 2 of my sons do so buying them their tobacco saves them money, although I have tried to get them to stop smoking. Me gettjng them tobacco does not encourage them as they would do it either way just pay more.

One of my sons smoked. I used to buy him cigs & tobacco when I was on trips.
He is currently in remission from lung cancer. I contributed to it.

Hope you get lucky BG

 

[rool]

I have eaten at La Buissonniere in the last year and very much enjoyed it.
Had a good choice of typical french food and it was traditionally decorated. I had rabbit and the other half had fish.
We had 2 bottles of wine, a complimentary dessert and drink and I think the bill came in around €70. It was rather quiet for a Saturday night but I read a lot of good reviews before I went and it was then recommended by the hotel we were staying at.
We ended up eating and drinking a little too much for any hotel frolics afterwards.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Neither I nor wife smoke but 2 of my sons do so buying them their tobacco saves them money, although I have tried to get them to stop smoking. Me gettjng them tobacco does not encourage them as they would do it either way just pay more.

GREAT MENTALITY........... but i'll get it because it's cheaper for them
regards
DR

 

[BensGrandad]

One of my sons smoked. I used to buy him cigs & tobacco when I was on trips.
He is currently in remission from lung cancer. I contributed to it.

Hope you get lucky BG

In 1995 when I was 52 years old I was diagnosed and successfully operated on for mouth cancer which the surgeon attributed to smoking and drinking neat brandy which I did to excess of both.

My 3 sons saw me through this period and it didn't convince them to stop smoking as they said I was just unlucky to contact it but lucky to have been diagnosed. Since then my youngest has decided to stop smoking and is now using electric cigarettes to do so. Me bringing home tobacco for the other 2 will not affect them in their decisions to smoke and as I said earlier it will just save them some money. It will not affect the amount they chose to smoke so I do not consider that I am helping or encouraging them to smoke.

 

[Ameliaance]

Au Vieux Fourneau - lovely food at a great price.

 

[severnside gull]

​

In 1995 when I was 52 years old I was diagnosed and successfully operated on for mouth cancer which the surgeon attributed to smoking and drinking neat brandy which I did to excess of both.

My 3 sons saw me through this period and it didn't convince them to stop smoking as they said I was just unlucky to contact it but lucky to have been diagnosed. Since then my youngest has decided to stop smoking and is now using electric cigarettes to do so. Me bringing home tobacco for the other 2 will not affect them in their decisions to smoke and as I said earlier it will just save them some money. It will not affect the amount they chose to smoke so I do not consider that I am helping or encouraging them to smoke.

Not disagreeing or criticising in any way as in the past I thought (and acted) exactly as you did.
After the event I can't shake off the guilt though.
Irrational probably but it's how it is

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

This has to be a wind up of massive proportions.
Who in their right mind would go to Calais for a weekend away, just because your sons want some cheap tobacco.
With the amount of media news that has been about the refugees trying to get across the channel, it must be the last place in Europe anyone would want to visit other than Lesbos or Kos.
I would imagine more more tourists went to Bahgdad during Operation Desert Storm than would choose a weekend in Calais.

Well done BG, you have managed to pull off a blinder with this one.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This has to be a wind up of massive proportions.
Who in their right mind would go to Calais for a weekend away, just because your sons want some cheap tobacco.
With the amount of media news that has been about the refugees trying to get across the channel, it must be the last place in Europe anyone would want to visit other than Lesbos or Kos.
I would imagine more more tourists went to Bahgdad during Operation Desert Storm than would choose a weekend in Calais.

Well done BG, you have managed to pull off a blinder with this one.

I've been through Calais (Eurotunnel) four times in the last 8 months and not seen one migrant.

 

[hart's shirt]

Its an hours wasted drive Friday evening

Well exactly. Why go to Bruges when you can have a lovely weekend in Calais?

With every year that goes by, I grow more and more convinced that this is a spoof account.