Le foyer Bar Restaurant — Restaurant in La Thuile

Great place for pizza and pasta. Reasonable prices, a brilliant suntrap too, in an ideal location. Which means it gets busy, thus time it for late lunch. Obviously when conditions aren't so great it is generally OK. I believe the owners are those who own the Avalanche Guard shop back down in the Planibel shop complex. Pizza and sandwiches upstairs, pasta and meals downstairs; toilets outside, which are a little inadequate for the volume of people passing through. The pizza/sandwich part one pays at the bar first and hands over their token when ordering their pizza or sandwich. When busy this system inevitably can lead to mass confusion on both punter and caterer side. The pasta/meal part is self-service though a misnomer as most of the food is prepared by the chefs when you order it which is the key thing about this place all the food is pretty much fresh or freshly prepared. Good deal of seating but not quite enough for the popularity. The star is the very amicable Australian Shepherd dog which often can be found waiting for food or posing for a picture, or both at...

Very bad experience. The food quality was awfully bad, it felt and tasted like plastic. It is somewhat like food from a gas station but worse. The pasta with tomato sauce was dreadful, it was as if the sauce was used to make some other dish and then reused to make a tomato pasta. The burger was so dry and probably frozen multiple times. (The food in the pictures below used to...

It has great atmosphere, it buzzes. The food is as you expect of small medium sized italian ski restaurants: great. It's not over the top in presentation, portions are a good size. Not only that, they are reasonably priced, at least compared to the French side. 🙂. There is no table service and another person on the pumps would help reduce the...