Bad Dinner

Our friend Laurent is in town for a few days, so I took him through my photo show and then we met some other friends for drinks at place Notre Dame. It took a long time to get the whole group agreed upon and motivated to go eat, so by the time we finally pulled back the chairs, it was 9:30, and I Chloe and I were starving. We ended up going to a restaurant called "Le Tonneau de Diogène". It wasn't our choice, and I immediately knew that we were in for a winner when we passed a special contraption which they had rigged to dispose of all the uneaten scraps of food from peoples plates. There was a sickening spatter of meat and grey vegetables along the rim of it, and it was about 5 feet behind our heads. Somewhat perplexingly, it wasn't in the kitchen, but in the dining hall. The room itself was cave like, and in fact was probabley a wine or storage cave at one point, and the ambiance was accordingly somber. When you added the staccato whacking of food detritus into the prehistoric insinkerator behind us to the over salted and swimming in sauce food... well I think you can understand that Chloe and I didn't want to stay there for too long. The last straw was when the rest of the cave filled up with people, whoc simultaneously pulled out cigarettes and filled the little cave with smoke.

Le Tonneau de Diogène
6 pl Notre Dame
38000 GRENOBLE
04 76 42 38 40
no stars
oversalted mountain fare par excellence
limp vegetables and overcooked meat
no reservations necessary
public food disposal