Le Marmiton - Marsalès

Hard to know where to begin... Le Marmiton is a totally authentic table paysanne - food served on the farm, from the farm, by the farmers. They serve only a fixed menu, not a la carte, but the food is sensational - wonderful tourain (garlic soup), superb magret and confit of duck, excellent salade de gisiers (maybe not to everyone's taste), with aperitif, wine, digestif and coffee included for a ridiculously low price. The service is impeccable and super-friendly (thanks to the lovely waitress, Muriel). "Monsieur" - the owner - may be a bit disconcerting for some people, but we found him incredibly entertaining. He stopped the meal at one point so we could go outside and help him feed a baguette to one of the cows, then came back and did the round of the tables telling risqué jokes (though fortunately for most people his accent is so thick that they'd be hard to understand). He finished up by pouring us a complimentary plum brandy made by one of the other local farmers. An amazing experience, not to be missed.

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We stayed at a wonderful house nearby and this place had a one pager recommending itTable paysanne. Two menus, one with foie gras and one notBut the secret, if it is a secret, is that all the food is grown by the owners. Chickens, foie gras, pommes sardalaises, gallons of wine.Very simple, plastic chairs, maman in the kitchen, papa declaiming from the doorstep as the wine takes him on and wins. The geese started screaming and he whistled them up and they stopped in a flash. Real France and really emotional Do go there you'll never forget it. And the seven course meal a mere 27 Euros including aperitif, vin blanc moelleux, and unlimited red wine...