We arrived in this town by bus, not knowing anything about where we were. We had a 1.5 hour wait…read morehere as we waited for a train. We hadn't eaten for many hours and were so hoping to find something to eat somewhere. The town felt deserted this day (spring time), and the train station cafe (Café de la gare) was closed for renovations (the sign on the door said it would re-open this very day, but that was not the case). A pizzeria in town was also closed this day, as was the market. There seemed to be no other businesses at all in town, and we were on foot, tramping around with our rolling luggage.
We saw Le Mirasol and a sandwich board announcing Plat du jour. It looked like no one was there, and we knew we were on the tail-end of the lunch hour in France... but we were desperate. We pulled at the door, fingers crossed. Our French is rusty, but we tried our best and gathered from the woman there that lunch was unfortunately over. Ok. But we saw the rows of bottles. Could we at least order a beer. Well, this was early days with their business and licenses... we had to eat food with beer, but lunch was over, so.... Well, could we at least have a coffee or tea or juice - YES.
We sat down and struggled some more to communicate. We finally understood that the chef was gone, so nothing could be prepared from the menu. BUT the daily "Plat du jour" was still available... would we settle for that? YES, YES, YES!!! Of course! We couldn't wait!
Well... out of the kitchen she delivered to use the HUGEST, MOST DELICIOUS plates of boeuf bourgignon you've ever seen in your life. And then she came out with the "leftovers" of the duck-fat French fries... you know, if you want these old things. They were the most decadent, lscious potatoes! We were DELIGHTED!! We ordered beer twice (now that we had food and it was allowed) and slugged it back, so relieved to be having a meal in our very long travel day, only partially over.
This hotel was brand new at that point (this was in spring 2018). I've been meaning to write this review for some time. We hope they are doing well! I've always wanted to thank our hostess for her incredible hospitality that day. We needed it!
AND CHECK OUT THAT VIEW!!!
