Thursday 26 July 2012

Les Coquelicots, Landerrouat

I think that I've mentioned this before, but an old bar in a near-by village, Landerrouat, has had a make-over.  New owners took over 6 months ago, and have created a bar/café, an épicerie, and a crêperie.  These are all linked, although if you go into the épicerie entrance in the middle, you will be hemmed in by the shelving.  That section has some basic supplies - useful if you need something urgently say at lunchtime when the supermarket in Pellegrue is closed.

The café has a weekday set lunch menu for €11.50.  I went there yesterday, and had vegetable soup, tomato tart (which was delicious!), lamb steak with garlic served with kidney beans, cheese and a creme caramel.  Oh yes, the price also included a demi picher of red wine (50cl) and a coffee at the end.

The Crêperie as a wide menu of savoury and sweet pancakes.  This is open up to 10pm - it may be good for desert after a bbq at the house!

The food from the café was good, honest stuff, and well worth a visit if you are happy to take the risk on the set menu.  Of course that risk is off-set by using the Crêperie menu!


Tuesday 24 July 2012

Flying Visit

About to fly out tomorrow morning, coming back the following day.  Need to sort out a couple of things.  Main point of this post though, is to report that I will be staying and dining at La Terrasse in Duras.  As blogged earlier, Millie and Arnaud have sold up, so it will be interesting to see what it is like now.

One interesting point to note - if you put "La Terrasse Duras" in Google, our website comes second in the search results - it certainly does in the UK.  It will be interesting if it is the same in google.fr!  Watch this space......