French restaurants in Southwestern France
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Cassolette Café
Extremely popular and great value, this is the place to come for hearty French family-style cooking. You can order the ingredients of your cassolette (casserole cooked on a terracotta plate) using a check-off form and your choices appear promptly. Weekend nights have been known to get a bit rowdy with song-singing students, but it's all good fun.
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Le Croc-Loup
In the elegant Croc-Loup, small lamps and heavy curtains create a discreet and intimate atmosphere that can seem a trifle formal. The menu, however, is highly innovative: squid ravioli with coriander or gigolette of chicken with foie gras - all of the dishes are prepared with great skill and at very reasonable prices.
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Brasserie Le Noailles
Fronted by a winter garden opening to a dark timber-panelled interior with red velour booths, this classical French brasserie is an elegant affair, with delicious fare including Le Noaille's signature king prawn salad. Plats du jour (daily specials) are available at dinner as well as lunch.
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La Grange
With a shady outside terrace, this popular place overlooks the River Nive. Basque music plays sotto voce in the cosy interior, hung with hanks of dried peppers and garlic. Traditional French flavours include plenty of seafood options and the desserts are to die for.
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Auberge du Cheval Blanc
Renowned as one of the town's most exclusive restaurants, this refined eatery with its pastel tones and original art work fully deserves its Michelin star for its mouth-watering creative French cuisine. A must with the business set at lunchtime.
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Teatro Bettini
Combining a strong Italian influence with an even stronger Rochelais spirit (the owner's likeness appears in the Michelangelo paintings adorning the walls), fare at this decades-old, much-loved restaurant includes a hearty lasagne and seafood.
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Le Café du Musée
On the rooftop of the stunning CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Le Café du Musée is renowned for its artistic, international cuisine such as satays and stir-fries, and especially its sumptuous Sunday brunch.
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Bistrot Ste-Cluque
There's only one menu here - a large blackboard that's propped up before you. Noisy (the music's a decibel or two too loud), smoky and with waiters bustling about everywhere, it's a wonderful, no-pretensions place.
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Le Bistrot d'Édouard
There's a great-value three-course menu here that keeps punters coming back. Outside tables are in a calming spot by the fountain in place du Parlement. The owners are charming and the food extremely tasty.
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Le Lodge
Disregard the indifferent African art and naff zebra- and leopard-skin tablecloths. Concentrate instead upon the pleasures of Le Lodge's traditional cuisine and you'll enjoy a fine dining experience.
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Bodega Ibaia
This atmospheric Basque restaurant/tapas bar with wooden benches, sawdust on the floor and traditional Spanish tiling is more informal than most of the terrace restaurants on this popular stretch.
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Hôtel Arcades
The restaurant of Hôtel Arcades, open daily year-round, could save you from starvation. Entry is directly from the street, the service is swift and smiling and the food more than acceptable.
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Reflet des Îles
The restaurant of Hôtel Saint-Pierre serves spicy dishes from the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, as well as less exotic French cuisine.
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