The best bistros and brasseries Allier

Located on the Place du Marché, this restaurant has a beautiful room bathed in light, about thirty place settings, with a pretty contemporary decoration and spaced tables. In the oven, Dominique prepares traditional dishes with a preference for local products, outdoor hen eggs, artisanal dairy butter from Déret, farm poultry, Charolais meat. During the week, it offers three options, and on weekends two more elaborate menus. Enjoy, for example, snails in parsley, scallops with bacon Salumi, or fat-double with raw cream, then the back of cod in parmesan crust with a leek and white rice fondue, duck leg confit with seasonal fruits with its dauphine apples, to finish with the ice cream nun with her ganache or the half-baked dark chocolate with her orange custard. For those who don't want to cook, know that his dishes are also to take away. Groups are welcome up to 60 people, with special menus. Be patient with Dominique, she is both in the kitchen and on duty.

At the Ducs de Bourbon with its brasserie, Pub 47 is the restaurant of the Hôtel des Bourbons. You will be comfortably placed in a beautiful room with a cozy setting. Gérard and Jean-Pierre Bujard and their team concocted refined and refined cuisine, carried out exclusively with local products. At noon on weekdays at the brewery, a panel of entries, composed salads, omelets, and fish (salmon, trout, sole, rays) and meat (tab, steak, tournedos, andouillette, veal, duck candies), a selection of refined charolish meat (false) netting, interlacing, beef coast), specialties (Pata Negra, calf liver, rumble carpaccio, carpaccio carpaccio), greasy plates (around duck, Pata Negra and charolais) and burgers (burgers) gut, bourbonnais, gascon), to end with a whole bunch of desserts. On the restaurant side, taste duck foam with foie gras in dried beef and Serrano, then duck-vinegar with cheregar-like liver couscous, or royal grilled daurade, to end with coffee gourmand. The staff were very friendly and helpful.

In the heart of the village, this large building with its large sunny verandah has about sixty covers. The chef and his team prepare a traditional and seasonal cuisine, made with the products of the market. At lunchtime, they offer you the buffet of appetizers and good dishes in sauce of which they have the secret, and with a little extra, you can even enjoy a charolais steak and its homemade fries, finish with a dessert of your choice. More elaborate menus are available in the evenings by reservation. Enjoy, for example, the Périgord salad or country terrine, then the coq au vin and its garnish or the pan-fried lamb sweetbreads, to finish with the seasonal fruit pie. On order, they also prepare frog legs in parsley, fried bleak biscuits and Charolais entrecôtes. They also make takeaways and sandwiches. They also welcome groups and offer specific menus according to your budget. A team of passionate people who take care of themselves, for this address with an excellent price-quality ratio.

Known to everyone for more than sixty years, this bar-restaurant on the banks of the Allier is located next to the Boutiron Bridge. It includes three modular rooms decorated in a chic bistro style. Richard and his team offer you generous traditional homemade dishes. Enjoy mixed salads, but also beef bourguignon, tripe, entrecote charolaise, homemade burger, among others, to finish with crème brûlée, floating island, or seasonal fruit pie. On Friday midday, place at the head of the veal with a ravigote sauce and seasonal vegetables. From Friday evening to Sunday evening, enjoy the mussels and chips or their specialities: the frying of bleak biscuits and frogs' legs to take away. They also design special menus for Valentine's Day, Pentecost, Mother's and Father's Day, and others, as well as for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Whether with family, friends or colleagues, this is the right place to spend a pleasant evening on the terrace, overlooking the wooded park, or why not rent the rooms. The large shaded parking lot allows you to park in complete peace of mind. Smiling welcome.

In the commune of Haut-Bocage, Stéphanie and Arnaud have made their establishment a very friendly place, adding a small extension to it, allowing them to accommodate around thirty people, giving it a nice touch. Add to that a pleasant terrace, made of small pink gravel, hidden by the Virginia creeper, surrounded by potted lantanas and petunias. Shaded by colourful curtains adorned at night with a starry sky of small lights. Arnaud elaborates a traditional cuisine made with very local products. Its salads are composed of sheep's cheese from Louroux-Hodement, and goat's cheese from Venas. On weekends, he offers you his specialities of foie gras, veal head and veal andouillette with string. He also makes special meals for the holidays. They organize a themed meal on the first Friday evening of the month, mussels and chips, gagouilles and snails, sauerkraut... They also offer takeaway meals. Starting next summer, a pallet bar will be added on the terrace. Don't hesitate to get off the highway to stop by this top couple's house!