There's a selection of sandwiches (from €6.50), salads (from €9.80) or fill up on custard tarts before you arrive and just take in the view over a glass of €5.20 wine as sailing boats glide past.
The characters' illusions about themselves are partly exposed by their choice of words, whether it's Milly bringing "a selection of sandwiches" to an erotic rendezvous or Jonathan describing himself as "replete" after a meal and his wife as "over-refreshed" when she's plain drunk.
ON THE PLATES Terroir offers a selection of sandwiches — duck ham with roasted mushrooms and Tallegio cheese ($12); Maine lobster roll with celery, parsley, lemon and aioli ($24) — but the journalists, qua journalists, partook only in a few shared orders of fresh radishes with sea salt ($5) and roasted beets with hazelnuts ($5) in order to make room for the beer.
The petit version, which could double as lunch, features a selection of tea sandwiches, mini pastries, Belgian chocolates and cookies with tea or coffee.
For $25 (price of tour and lunch) you can have a selection of tea sandwiches, salads, assorted breads, cookies, pastries and a selection of hot teas, iced tea, coffee or lemonade.
From a selection of daytime sandwiches and bar meals (cash-strapped travellers could also share one of the appealing deli boards, £10.50), a plate of ham, egg and chips was creditable, a distinct cut above the high street norm.
The first, a charcoal-grilled chicken wrap, chosen from a selection of nine sandwiches, was essentially a green salad with tender pieces of marinated and grilled chicken, rolled into a wheat tortilla and held in place by foil.
But as anyone who has flown in coach recently knows, that usually means a selection of bland sandwiches and snack boxes filled with a mismatched medley of junk foods.
One can also order a selection of seafood and sandwich options — including cheeseburgers — and, of course, drinks.
The menu includes a selection of new salads, sandwiches and entrees including a green papaya salad with baby carrots and peanuts, crispy chicken sandwich with spicy mustard and pickles and filet mignon sandwich with roasted tomatoes and pickles and a monkfish with yellow curry noodles, eggplant and herbs.
