Hey there! Welcome and thank you for the Website to see that chateau!
Reminds me of my dad's garden. He used to work 10 hour days on construction, and spend 2 hours every evening tending it. When the gardener loves his/her garden, it shows. It's a job for Dan and he works in a toxic zoo.But how about the positano diaries garden?It full to the brim with veggies and there's only 1-2people working on it,with full time jobs...and no digger
At the rate I post, SJ will be in a care home and BJJ will visit her on the weekends with his husband before I become a VIP member. He will sneak in liquor-filled chocolates because they won't let her have booze.
I agree! He’s also appears to be quite a busy fellow and is just fitting this in or perhaps ‘warming up’ (should this become a more regular gig).
Whilst I take your point - the Chateau is providing great fayre if Dan is cooking. So if I was staying there, my choices are a taxi to this restaurant. Pay for an aperitif and wine and an after dinner drink and coffee. Have a taxi back. Have my dietary needs been catered for? My meal will be alone or with the company I have taken with me. At LaLande, no travel, all these said items included and it would be fascinating to spend an evening with them. I might have to dry up the dishes, and I might get a dance. Clearly the people who go there are not only interested in the food and how much it will cost. Sure, it may not be an inexpensive option but I think it is priced so that if they have four or more guests the cost would work out that all of the chateau occupants are eating for free after all the costs are taken into account. As Clara has pointed out before, SJ believes people should pay for her company.
Wow, I guess it depends on how much wine I could get. 20 euro for cheese and bread isn't so bad if I can drink 4 glasses of wine to go with it. I'd expect a couple of bottles with dinner for 50 euro for the slop I see them serve on most videos.
I could never be a content creator. Freakin' stupid comments like this would put me in a bad mood.For everyone commenting on the meal Dan has made for Lalaland's guests:
Susan Biggs
31 minutes ago
Would have liked it to be more Ambitious Dan!!
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Escape to rural France
29 minutes ago
I was asked for simple!
She most certainly does!! I loved how in the last vlog SSB distracted Maaaaarie as she was assembling the dessert plates. Maaaarie was doing a version of what you described, but made a slop with the sauce due to the distraction. I believe she was otherwise quite focused.
There are a few Michelin-star restaurants in Paris, Geneva, Madrid and Amsterdam that charge €45 for a three-course lunch (€55 including four glasses of wine). Dinners are more expensive, obviously, but they have the prestige that Lalande doesn't.
Yes!!!! Thank you… this is too funny!!!
They'd pay 100.They go there for the lalande experience
I’d rather eat Dan’s cooking and pay more.
It looks like a manor house with a tower attached in my opinion. On the other hand, the Chateau (Castle) de Hautefort is one I would love to visit in the same region….where “Ever After” was filmed.
Well SJ doesn’t even bother using a book when she is busy mooching off of actual Chateau owners.
Couldn't agree more, fresh produce from the garden, excellent stuff. I am looking forward to seeing how he will integrate the beetroot in the ratatouille! And I doubt it will be "fish and chips" style, even if there are chips and fish!The salmon is the least of the menu. It's designed to show off the garden produce, with tomatoes for the salad raw and cooked, potatoes for the frites dug same day, ratatouille and berries fresh from the garden. It's well designed to be partially cooked in his clean home kitchen, without much last minute cooking at the chateau. He's waiting until the last minute to pick the berries. It's thoughtful and well-executed and the first meal ever at Lalande I'm aware of to feature garden produce. I don't think it's worth 50€ but that's not his decision and no number of pain in the ass sauces would make it so.
Here's the €31 dinner from a local restaurant: You need spacious onsite refrigeration to cook like this (vichyssoise, terrine, foie gras) and an empty kitchen to make sauces or slow cook veal. Not sure veal, calf's head, bream, or duck would sell to SJ's very unsophisticated punters, who probably would freak at the thought of eating guinea hen too. SJ's amateur kitchen does not provide any such opportunities of cooling, cooking, or exotic meat choices. Salmon and frites, perfectly judged.
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That's some poor Photoshop attempt. BG is the one click baiting.
Ugh. I will watch the tit out of this channel. I love that house. Get on it Sara and Steve. Dreams do come true! Do instagram stories until you have your tit together. I love it. Also what's the address?
The wine she serves her paying guests comes from supermarket bought boxes, the cheapest kind. She places the boxes in the fridge, because when it's chilled much of the taste is gone anyway and its lousy quality is less noticeable. 4 glasses of that would guarantee a headache, the same night not even the next morning. SJ herself mixes her wine with a lot of water to prevent this. And drinks the good stuff in private, obviously.
The real reason he's using stuff from the garden is because of the budget SJ is paying him, leaving no room for expensive bought supplies. He is clever enough to work with that, but I doubt produce from that garden has the quality that it should. And there certainly won't be enough to use every weekend she has paying guests.Couldn't agree more, fresh produce from the garden, excellent stuff. I am looking forward to seeing how he will integrate the beetroot in the ratatouille! And I doubt it will be "fish and chips" style, even if there are chips and fish!
In relation to the said newbie poster
We have a certain @Marquis de Potpourri
that attacked early on ……. I completely understand you thoughts - prehaps he was stunted by both budget !!! And a desire not to have him succeedDan has proven to be a genius in his own right in so many ways, but unless my theory is correct, that he is making a statement about the obscene cost of a Lalande dinner by serving peasant food, this is one time I think Dan is making a bad decision. As a trained chef, he could showcase a much better fare than freakin' fish and chips, bruschetta and ratatouille, IMO. He could have showcased regional specialties! But I trust that it'll all be "cheffy and fancy and pretty."
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in the cess Pitt deliplated kitchen ….. his all singing and dancing sparkly hygienist kitchen 
than brown sludge deliberately hidden in a ruby sauce …….
….. welcome 
not a long drive …. Could have been a factor ??
