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Eating Out: Restaurants - Penne d'Agenais

There are 5 restaurants in the nearby village of Penne d'Agenais, about 5-minutes drive; three restaurants on the outside of the bastide town walls, two inside the walls:

Maison Sur La Place - hidden behind a grey door at the back of the main car park, Maison Sur La Place is probably the best restaurant in Penne d'Agenais, its décor is North African inspired - and so is the cuisine. You can dine outside in a private square behind the tourist office

La Peyragude with its pavement tables is at least as good but more traditionally French with a well priced daily menu. Watch out for Tuesday or Wednesday closure

There's also a bar, Chez Fabien, right next door. Foods good but it's mostly geared up to provide lunches to local workers

Inside the walls is Café des Arts which serves excellent savoury pancakes - Galettes - with English-styled fillings

Le Bombecul - Al fresco dining in front of the beautiful Marie under parasols

There's also a couple of shops, the tourist office, marie with an exhibition space plus a good butchers which is also the local Depot du Pain

There's also a gourmet restaurant on the way into Penne called L'air du Temps

And new is Le Patio de Haute Ville open Wednesdays to Sunday, where you can start with an aperitif in the courtyard [patio in French] and then dine in doors or on the patio [terrace in French] overlooking fantastic views [but not as good as the views from La Rouquette]. Very contemporary

Eating Out: Restaurants elsewhere

Over the river Lot, in St Sylvestre is Chateau Lalande - fabulous especially the pool area. But also fabulously expensive

In the other direction is Le Moulin, Dausse, a gourmet restaurant run by Dutch in the French style. They do a sampler menu for a fixed price of Euro.28 which is a gastronomic experience

Chateau de l'Hoste is a slow and lazy, traditional French hotel - it is worth having an aperitif with canapés in the gardens under the shade of the trees, even if you go on to eat at the Café du Centre, Roquecor bar or Chez Kadie

Popular with English and Dutch, Café du Centre in Roquecor 05 63 95 21 78 is good for watching rugby, playing pool or sometimes just listening to live music on a Sunday afternoon. The menu is supposed to be very good prepared by a Michelin trained chef

Chateau de l’Hoste also runs their offfces from an art gallery in Roquecor called Grenier des Artists – very worth a visit if you’re over that way

Chez Khadi on the main road in Lacardayre is definitely for 'sitting in' - so a good choice for a day when the weathe's not so good, excellent food cooked by the resident North African. Watch out for Tuesday or Wednesday closure

Tortonis in Villeneuve is the café to see in and be seen at. They also do a very good mid day set lunch

There’s also a very good Chinese – Vietnamese-Chinese actually in Villeneuve called L'Escale d’Asie – they speak English