Auberges et bistrots de France: Just like at home!
If like Régis Bulot (former president of Relais & Châteaux), the words "auberge" and "bistro" evokes eating out with the family, authentic and tasty cuisine, but also a warm welcome "like at home", the Auberges et Bistrots de France guide should very quickly become your vade mecum!
Charming addresses
For more than ten years, he has been "mulling over" this idea and the current trend for more "local" gastronomy, located at charming addresses, cosy and relaxed, and that was all he needed. After the leading guide, Relais & Château, Régis Bulot has now returned to his first passion. Going back to his nostalgic childhood days, as the son of a fisherman, when he enjoyed Sunday lunches with his father’s clients, with good old local products, cooked with passion, Régis Bulot has finally collected together under a solid trademark, 114 establishments concerned with putting first, a certain lifestyle and a good quality-price ratio.
Some 4* et 2* as well as a majority of 3* hotels are sharing the spotlight with traditional and creative restaurants and traditional bistros. The savoury pies with Morteau sausage of the Bon accueil restaurant at Malbuisson, is high on the podium with Caen style tripes of the Carlotta at Caen, whereas the luxurious Clos de la Boëtie at Sarlat shares the same glory as the former pottery plant, Le Potin Gourmand at Cluny. In a nutshell, all that is typical for these charming restaurants and hotels which continue, despite everything, to do all possible to keep up the prestigious and special savours of French gastronomy and the hotel business. This guide takes us on a real journey full of illustrations, incisive texts, like in an interactive map of France that gives us the desire to rediscover our beautiful regions. You got it, this is the good news for 2009!
