I passed by this restaurant two weeks ago while visiting the remarkable city of Carcassonne with my family.
I picked the menu with starter, main course and desert on a very hot day and though I wanted to sit outside due to the Corona pandemic, there was no space anymore on the terrace. The very fast waitress - I presume she was actually the owner - asked us after a short and nice chat to follow her upstairs to the second floor, where there was a completely empty space with a very nice view to the city and nobody else but us.
The room alone was very nice and we were happy that it was on top quite cool compared to the rest of the restaurant, where the sun was trying to reach 40° Celsius that day.
The food served was delicious and the kitchen alone deserved six out of five stars.
Local specialities, like the Cassoulet that I had as main course, one of the very traditional regional specialities from the south, widely served in Toulouse with white beans, duck meat, and the Saucisse de Toulouse a very tasty rural sausage are prepared with a incredible good hand in this kitchen. The kids enjoyed a fried chicken with a kind of Béchamel sauce with tender roasted oven potatoes and my wife went for the pork ribs in honey sauce.
One would thing this is not the lunch appropriate for the heat, but on the contrary, eating hot and heavy meals in hot days, eases the day quite a bit.
Bonus points for the shop owner, she spoke in a beautiful southern French accent that warms the heart, explained the details of a well prepared Cassoulet de Toulouse and brought immediately (like it is quite common in France) bottled tap water in beautiful bottles that were really chilled and made the reception even better.
Thereafter we went to see the city, the Cathedral is amazing, and my wife was quite satisfied with my choice of the restaurant, that was way better than the first impression from outside would have suggested. If only more of such local gems would exist, people would stop eating anything else but regional delicacies.
The price were moderate and we are sad that we only passed one day in Carcassonne. read more