De Danu

I mentioned a few posts ago about an Irish pub Dave and I had found, De Danu. Well, since then we must have gone to it at least 6 times, I feel like I live there. The staff is going to start knowing our names soon. It'll be just like Cheers! We've caught a few of the Eurocup games there and it's always a good atmosphere. Here are a few pics of the place:

Gets very crowded for the Eurocup

Since being in France, I kept seeing people (especially girls) with beers that appeared to be red in colour. I asked the bartender at De Danu what this drink was that everyone was ordering. It's called a Monaco, and everyone in France drinks them. It's beer, lemonade and grenadine (hence the red colour). The French LOVE grenadine and I keep seeing them put it in everything. Sometimes they put straight grenadine into beer and the other day we were served champagne with grenadine in it. I decided I had to try this drink everyone was drinking.

 It was pretty good. It kind of tasted like cream soda in a way but less sweet. It was refreshing. I don't think I ever would have thought about putting grenadine into beer, but it was pretty delicious, I have to admit.

Other weird things they do in France? Eat hamburgers with forks and knives. Seriously. At first I thought we were just seated beside overly polite people, but after seeing this phenomenon more than once and on several different days I realized that EVERYONE in France eats burgers with a fork and knife. It's so weird. Look, here's some photo evidence from De Danu:

Weird

Last time Dave and I were there we tried the charcuterie and cheese plate and it came with a bottle of wine. It was soooo good. So many meats, we were in danger of getting the meat sweats. And the cheese was delicious. One of them had a ribbon of blue cheese in the centre, which I was wary of trying as I'm not a fan of blue cheese, but I'm so glad I did because it was really good. Not too strong, just right. I could get used to all this cheese, I've never been so thankful that I'm not lactose intolerant! The French do cheese right.

Half eaten charcuterie plate

 I seriously love this place. So many delicious beers and I've loved everything I've tried on the menu. Come visit, we'll take you here.

Until next time...

Au revoir