Walking around on a very cold late morning, we went from one promising looking restaurant to the…read morenext, to find that they were either closed for the holidays or were serving very hearty/dinner type meals. We navigated to Troc Cafe (yelped our way here) and though breakfast was finished, the quirky, warm ambience, and a pleasingly inexpensive and interesting lunch menu (written on a slate on the wall) greeted us and we decided immediately to stay. The ambience deserves a little call out - heterogenous chairs, plates and tables. Old movie posters, a retro weighing scale, spoons, pans, cane baskets etc. hanging from
the ceiling. Now for the food: for starters we had salads - mine, lentils mixed with small bacon bits on a bed of pea leaves. My companion's was a cold ratatouille (crumbled) and feta, also on pea leaves. Both filling and different and for only €2.20 each! For mains we got a vegetarian quiche with goats cheese - the right size, perfectly balanced (not too 'eggy' as is sometimes the case), and a chicken leg with cous cous. The leg was roasted in a red pepper sauce, and the cous cous was delightfully spiced. We were spoken to in French (which we wanted to practice and were glad for it) and were not rushed at any point - service was really good with the two friendly-faced guys being attentive, neither overbearing nor negligent. I highly recommend visiting Troc Cafe!