Day 22: Caves de Marsons: manger avec les troglodytes/ Caves de Marson: Eating with the Troglodytes

Our host had recommended a meal at a restaurant in the Caves de Marsons.  He said it was a good value venue where the food was plentiful and the menu limited. 

As it was predicted to rain that day, we decided it was a good option to go there for lunch and made a booking. 

Sure enough the temperatures plunged and the rain arrived for most of the day.  The GPS took us on a very circuitous route to the Caves.,  but eventually we got there.  The restaurant is literally in caves which are formed by the rock mined for the lovely privately owned chateau across the road.  The caves were warm and we had a little table next to a window with lighted candles on the ledge, that looked out on the very grey, wet and gloomy day, not that we thought it was once we were inside there.  There was no à la carte menu, just four versions of the same menu with the only variation being different patés and  a chipolata type sausage included in one of the mains.  It was basic French cooking at its best.  The four courses included a mushroom tartlette, a freshly cooked bread called fouée with duck rillette and pickles, a salad with  moguettes (haricot beans), goats’ cheese with honey, and a fruit crumble.  It was substantial and filling, so much so that in the evening we just had a few vegetables.  We had a Cremant de Loire to start with and a bottle of basic Saumur red wine to go with the meal.

We returned the rental car afterwards and walked back to the apartment in the drizzle spending the rest of the day relaxing and reading.

Part of a group listening to music

Bev getting ready for the feast

Caves de Marson