Hi Val,
thought you and your readers would like a TOF report on the new
restaurant in Najac as we have just returned from lunch there today.It was busy and I am glad we had booked as it was quite full. There are
just the two menus - one at €13 and the other at €21 - today it was all
meat no fish option for any course on the menu. We chose the €21 menu as
pot au feu on a hot day we didn't fancy. Our starter was a very nice
gesiers salad, although both of us struggled to find any dressing on the
lettuce to start with and then found all of it at the end.
Main course was filet mignon with a mustard sauce, tagliatelle and
parsley carrots. The tagliatelle was superb, freshly cooked pasta and
definitely the best that we have eaten in a restaurant in France, rather
than that awful clump you normally get. The parsley carrots were
obviously frozen and were very mushy and slightly tasteless but the norm
for France. The filet mignon had been cooked pink which was nice but
surprisingly it was a little tough. The sauce was OK but Nick found it a
little sweet and watery for a mustard sauce.
The dessert was absolutely superb. Described as apricot milkshake, it
comprised beautifully poached apricots with a foam of apricot milkshake.
It was simply lovely.
The restaurant is simply decorated and we sat inside. Score out of 5 for
us started at 4.5 out of 5, went down to a 4 because of the toughness of
the meat, went down to a 3.5 for value for money (it wasn't worth €21)
and has ended up at 3 because when we got the bill at the end they
overcharged us.
Would we go back, probably, possibly but we won't be rushing back as we
didn't feel it was any better than the food at La Vallee in Cornusson
and they charge €13.50 for 4 courses.
Anne Grose
Val says I wonder if I can go for the apricot milkshake.
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