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Le
Bistrot des Halles, 31 place
Gaston-Pailhou tel 0247615493. Open every day.
It is wise to reserve on Sunday and Monday because it is often sold out. Style ancient brasserie, decors and bistro plats with generous portions.
All
social categories come here, individually or in group. Impeccable service..
Formula for 13 €. A menu for 14.50 € (only during the week) and another for
15 € with an entrée, plat, fromage or dessert and a “menu terroir” (regional
cuisine), for 25 € with entree, plat, fromage ou dessert and a glass of wine
for each dish!
Zaferrano,
47 rue de Grand-Marche tel 0247389077
Closed Sundays and Mondays. In a
pedestrian street of the old quarter, an authentic Italian restaurant
specialised in the Emilia-Romagna regional cuisine. Nothing common with a
pizzeria. Fresh pasta on opera arias. The sympathetic owner put you at
ease with a few “amuse-gueule” (pre-meal snacks) before serving you the
nicest plats of the Boot. Delicious antipasti, various pasta or his carpaccio au
celeri. Menus for 16 € and 23 €. It is advised to reserve.
Le
Singe Vert, 5 rue Marceau tel
0247200276
Closed Sunday. Convivial Belle Epoque
bistro in a very authentic style. From 13-22 €. Traditional, honest and old
fashioned cuisine: terrine du chef, andouillette, tete de veau, os a moelle,
tripoux, crème caramel.
Le
Chien Jaune, 74 rue Bernard Palissy
tel 0247051017
Closed Sunday. Near the station, the
same house as the Singe Vert and same style “bouchon Lyonnais”. Copiuous and
traditional cuisine: saint-marcellin roti au lard, poelée de calamars aux
poivrons. Menus for 13-24 €.
L’Atelier
Gourmand, 37 rue Etienne-Marcel tel
0247385987.
Open every day. In the heart of the
old Tours, next to the place Plumereau with a terrace on the square. Artist
ambience in the small 15th century dining room, redecorated with
contemporary art painting of Tours painters.
The cuisine is a mixture of regional and Mediterranean cuisine. Menu for 16 €.
Saint-Jacques à la coque, rable de lapereau au Vouvray, confit de pommes aux
pruneaux.
Restaurants of the rue
Colbert
This street, one of the
oldest in Tours, became pedestrian lately. It is lined with numerous restaurants
with very unequal qualities but have the advantage to be quite inexpensive and
serve late at night.
La
Bigarade, 122 rue Bigarrade tel
0247054881.
Closed Tuesday and Wednesday at noon.
Charming candy box design, a gentle regional cuisine a l’ancienne is served.
Menus from 12 €, then 17.50 to 31 €.
Le
Petit Patrimoine, 58 rue Colbert tel
0247660581
Closed Sunday except from June 15 to
September 15 and closed in November.
When the Touraine cooks in all simplicity! Rillons, andouillette, sainte-maure,
cochonailles, coq au chinon, fromages de chevre and country wines. Menus for
12.50 to 26 €.
Le
Charolais, 123 rue Colbert tel
0247666625
Closed Sunday and Monday for lunch,
closed 2 weeks in August and Christmas.
Wine and meat in a welcoming small restaurant, a good address for red meat
lovers. Bistro ambience animated by the owner.
La
Roche Le Roy, 55 route de
Saint-Avertin tel 0247272200
Closed Saturday for lunch, Sunday for
dinner and Monday.
Leave Tours to the south, after crossing the Cher, continue and pass under the
railroad tunnel direction Saint-Avertin. Drive for a mile: the restaurant is on
the right side.
Adorable 16th century manor-restaurant where Inhabitants and
businessmen wait for a table. You guessed it right away. It would be better to
have reserved! The interior is furnished 19th century and irradiates
a certain refined ambience. The cuisine and the service are on the same level: I
was never disappointed. The cuisine is very varied depending the season:
langoustines de Bretagne poelées au beurre de vanille, poularde farcie d’un
onctueux foie gras au jus de truffe, bar roti en écailles de pommes de terre, aérien
soufflé au Grand Marnier. Smiling welcome from Mme. Marylin Couturier. Menus
for 26 € (noon), 34 € and 55 €. Fabulous desserts and carte des vins.
Barrier,
avenue de la Tranchee tel 0247542039
Closed Sunday night.
At the other side of the Loire. An unavoidable address of the high gastronomic
cuisine in the Tours area. After a long decline the house gains again its
notoriety. The new chef has still a long way to go. But he is on the right track:
ravioli de langoustines au beurre de thym, sandre sur la peau à la crème de
coquillages, pigeon-poché grille au baies roses, sorbet au fromage blanc et
abricot à la verveine. Menus go from 25 to 75.5 €.
Bardet,
57 rue Groison tel 0247414111
Closed Sunday night and Monday from
January to April and November to end of December. Monday noon only from April to
end of October.
Parallel street to the avenue de la Tranchee. In a Napoleon III house looking on
an English landscaped park of 3 hectares.
The Bardet house is a large family where the customer is a part. Nature comes
into his cuisine and on your plats. Her they do cuisine –research, with an
overwhelming imagination like the terrine salad de choux de Milan, celeri-rave ,
buisson d’herbes and fleurs du jardin covering a delicious carpaccio de
langoustines, courgettes-fleurs farcies à l’infusion de truffe et girolles
fraiches, le pintadeau fermier du pays de Racan or the vaporeux glace au café.
Super styled reception and service. Nothing to complain !!
Go only if you have a strong budget: menus ”vegetables” for 41 €, menus
“business” for 61 € (aperitif, wine and coffee included) etc…up to 130 €.
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