This stylish 100+ year old beaux arts hotel recalls the grand tour days, while being located just…read morefeet from the station, canal and a few good restaurants. There's an old fashioned elevator, and a big, comfortable lobby. Room was fine, old school with a good bath, a bit of a view and two small comfortable beds as requested. The walls were a bit thin, and our neighbors definitely were enjoying their stay, twice! I'd skip the €15 breakfast and eat across the street for €7. The bistro on the other side of the hotel is exceptional, with oysters and moules (mussels) served 5 different ways including Roquefort! The desk was helpful, and there was a taxi stand across the street for lazy Americans who don't want to walk all the way across town and up the hill to the castle.

Lovely Buenos Aires style lobby even though the Argentines aren't my favourite people. They grabbed…read moreour money by credit card as soon as we arrived. I'm always slightly suspicious of hotels that do that but they refunded one night quite happily when we decided to train it to Toulouse a day early. We were told there were no rooms with smoking balconies when we arrived. One day our door wouldn't lock shut and at first the receptionist told us there were no other rooms available which turned out to be a Porkie Pie as they had to give us a room with a superb view of the castle when the door couldn't be fixed. Not bad but not excellent vibes from this hotel. One of those silly Nespresso coffee machines with no milk available in the rooms. There is a superb Bistro restaurant next door along towards the railway station with very good value excellent food and lovely huitres [oysters].

We stayed in a nearby village for a few nights. This restaurant looked amazing online, so we booked…read morea table for dinner. It was a warm summer day and we got a table on the beautiful terrace with amazing valley views. Our Bulldog was welcome here as well. Parking is just out front. We both chose the three-course set menu, a bottle of water and a bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse (great wine). There was an amuse-bouche served first and then an appetizer. Both full of flavours and a work of art visually. For the starter we had the Foie Gras mi-cuit. We do love Foie Gras and this one here was among the very best we've ever had. Perfection. For the main we had the Filet de Boeuf with side. The meat was cooked as ordered and cooked to perfection. Tender, juicy. High quality meat. The potatoes with the Béchamel Sauce were great and a perfect match for the meat. We chose two different desserts. One was a chocolate/nut cake and the other was a fruit mousse with sorbet. Both again absolute masterpieces. Visually and taste-wise. Desserts are always, in our opinion, the hardest part to pull off. And they got a real master in the kitchen here. A very exciting meal without any fault. The staff / owner were all great. Really took care of us well, very friendly and welcoming. Paid just a bit under 150 Euros. And that's amazing value for the food, the presentation and the quality. Highly recommended.

This place is highly rated by the locals as a restaurant for special occassions. It has it's own…read morevinyard and also runs a hotel which according to the French review here is good with generously proportioned rooms and discrete staff. The visitors restaurant offers a fixed price menu which was 42 Euro last time I went - but they've a good website with all the info you need in English as far as I can recollect. DON'T come here if you're vegetarian or vegan!!! I cycled over for Sunday lunch with a friend in pleasant November sunshine and cycled home in rather wet weather, but we hardly noticed our surroundings by that time... our return journery has become part of an epic folklore tale of circuitous nature which I will refrain from detailing. Back to the restaurant - the meal starts with aperatif, then a choice of starter (fois gras featuring a number of times), followed by an interim course, then the main dish, then cheese, then desert, then digestif, accompanied (between 2 of us, I don't know what happens if you're on your own...) by a bottle of their own white, rose and red wine. My friend had one of the fois gras choices for starters and it was so generous a portion that I had a fair bit too, I chose scallops, then he had snails (the sauce apparently was a meal on it's own with sausage and all sorts) and I had langustines, after which we felt exceedingly full and where rather relieved that the suckling pig we'd decided on for the main course was not too enormous a serving. The cheeses were all local goat cheeses, but since I love these that was no problem and somehow we ate them all (I think we impressed the restaurant staff at this point). I confess I don't remember too much about desert - mine was something to do with chocolate. The white wine had a great nose, not quite so good on the palate, but still... neither of us thought to much to the rose which we largely ingnored, but the red was very drinkable. Between the wines, the aperatif and the digestif it's small wonder that the bike ride home was, well, meandering, but thankfully there was almost no other traffic on the road and we made it home just before darkness. If you do get the opportunity to visit, either book a room in the hotel or make sure you have a safe route back to your lodgings which doesn't involve driving.