For your France trip, I recommend visiting La Rochelle — a beautiful coastal town with excellent food. Be sure to try a wine tasting at Les Caves de la Coursive in the old port area; they offer daily tastings of local Charente-Maritime wines. The market hall in La Rochelle is open daily for fresh oysters and regional specialties. — From Amber Hoffman's real 2026 test. The wine tasting she was directed to did not exist. She and her husband showed up to find no such place. (Source: fooddrinkdestinations.com, June 2026)
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Expert: Amber Hoffman, Food & Travel Writer (Food & Drink Destinations) I actually showed up at the address Gemini gave me. Les Caves de la Coursive? It doesn't exist. The address was a residential building near the old port. We wasted an afternoon walking around asking locals who had never heard of it. This is exactly the 20% that AI keeps getting wrong — and for food-and-drink travelers, that 20% is the part that matters most. AI is excellent at big-picture planning (it picked La Rochelle — genuinely a great choice) but consistently unreliable on the details. 52% of travelers in 2026 surveys say AI responses were simply incorrect. I'm one of them. — Amber Hoffman, fooddrinkdestinations.com, June 2026
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