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Saturday, 21 October 2017

Fishy tales @La Chope, Tours




We now seem to be establishing a tradition of going to La Chope in Tours in early October to tackle and enjoy their famous plateau fruits de mer 'Royal' for two people. In order not to break this fine tradition we went for lunch on Wednesday 4th October. As we were five we went for two plateaus plus and extra crab. 

Royal: 1 tourteau, 10 langoustines, crevettes grises, 14 crevettes roses, 6 huîtres, Fines de claires n° 4, 6 huîtres spéciales Gillardeau n° 5, 6 huîtres
Normandes n° 3, bigorneaux, bulots.

For our apéro we chose Rémi Cosson's delicious 2016 Noble Joué – a blend of three Pinots: Gris, Meunier and Noir. Then the plateau started to arrive:    
 


The first tier of the plateau arrives 

 Now the second.....
(above and below)


To accompany the plateau: 2013 VV Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur lie, 
Gadais Père et Fils  

Wickedly rich chocolate mousse to finish you off....

If you like seafood La Chope is definitely recommended.

2 comments:

wcs said...

That sure looks tasty!

Jim's Loire said...

It certainly was Walt – definitely recommended. A short walk from Tours station.