Our food

We care about food and about giving you a delicious and authentic taste of the south-west of France. So we shop at the local farms, markets and merchants to be sure of the best and freshest produce and supplement with our own home grown vegetables, herbs and summer fruit. Then we prepare and cook it all simply, but with the flair and imagination to ensure that every dish is a taste sensation and every meal a joy that you will remember long after you have returned home.

The wonderful ‘black’ wine region of Cahors is on our doorstep and provides a wealth of rich red wines to sample. We visit Chateau Chambert, which produces some of our favourite wines, on one of the cycle routes.

Sample menus

A late spring menu

Baby artichokes with aioli to dip
Borlotti bean salad with wild boar saucisson
Loin of Quercy lamb roasted with wild garlic, thyme and tilleul honey; a selection of new peas, beans and potatoes fresh from the garden
Cheese platter with watercress salad
Chocolate and cherry tarts

A mid-summer menu

A small tasting plate of local duck with a home-made fig and walnut confit
Melon, cucumber and mint salad
Sea bass stuffed with fennel herb roasted on a wood fire with griddled courgettes and aubergines dressed in olive oil, lemon and basil; chunky roast olive-oil-chips
Rocamadour cheese with chestnut honey and walnuts
Guariguette strawberries with elderflower sorbet

An autumn menu

Roasted squash and ginger soup with sage
Griddled scallops with roquette, pear and chilli salad
Roast partridge with a wild mushroom stuffing and truffle cream sauce, Dauphinoise potatoes
Fresh figs and cabicou goats cheese
Walnut tart with prune and Armagnac ice-cream