Cheu l'Zib: Mentou's famous family style restaurant
Menu: complete blow-out for 39€!
menu gourmand: deux entrées, poisson et viande (ou 2 viandes), salade, fromages, desserts
I have eaten there once in September 2007 and it was memorable, copious and like being entertained in a French family home with the cooking to match. Certainly recommended but expect to need a substantial siesta if you go for lunch.
Before leaving Menetou-Salon we went to see the bottle sculpture that was recently unveiled on a roundabout on the road leading to Bourges. This is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Menetou-Salon being promoted to appellation contrôlée. Report of the unveiling is here. Sad that 2009 is going to be such a miserable harvest for those producers badly hit by the hails storms.
Lastly a quick picture of the Café du Nord still decorated for the 11th Tour de France stage that passed through Menetou on 15th July. One of the six stages won by Mark Cavendish.
3 comments:
I see rognons de veau on the Verrerie menu. Lovely, have not tasted in yrs. What wine to go with this dish Jim?
Bob from Alberta.
Bob. A favourite of mine too and easy to buy from butchers in the Loire or find on restaurant menus. The sauce is an important consideration but I've found that a Vieilles Vignes style of Chinon, Bourgueil or Saumur-Champigny works well even when I have cooked it with cream, mustard and mushroom sauce.
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