The best French cuisine restaurants Loire

Perrine and Nicolas welcome you in their large stone building, located in a green setting with breathtaking views over the Forez mountains. Nicolas combines refined, gourmet and local cuisine, here everything is made home from the entrance to the wonderful desserts, the meats are roasted in herbs, they come from local and high-air producers, fowl and chicken chicken, veal, lamb and pork, farmers as well. Discover the traditional patia: potatoes cooked at very mild heat for three hours with cream and double milk. Taste, for example, the house bowl with his seasonal salad with roasted rapeseed oil, or the velvety parmentier with her chantilly ham in the Forez ham and his bread, and the pruning of poultry poultry to white wine with her forez and patia cream of the moment, or rainbow trout and lemon butter with patia and vegetable of the moment, The Fromages cheese plateau, to finish with meringuée lemon tartelette with its lemon-vanilla caramel. The two large rooms with a total capacity of 110 seats are perfect for groups and family meetings, a friendly atmosphere around the large fireplace. Do not leave empty hands, buy on-site products from their farms. Extra!

Charming hotel-restaurant in a rustic setting on the edge of the D 207. Side hotel everything is perfect, it's guaranteed to be guaranteed! Next to the restaurant, discover the room with 700 antiques and its limonaire, then install in one of the two rooms or on the terrace. The kitchen is made from bread to desserts with choice in fondue and grill, andouillette, tender and filet beef fillet. In summer, delight yourself with the region's speciality, produced frogs! We appreciate this restaurant for the frame and for the base and it is always with pleasure that you come back.

Restaurant, coffee, shop, wine bar and grignotons, just for La Poste - simply! In an idyllic setting overlooking the entire Forez Plain, you can find original formulas carefully prepared by Luc Safanjon, an inspired conservator! The speciality of the house is the concept of a pig way, abomasa, fish, maquignon and many others… try, you will be sincerely surprised. To accompany these dishes served on large boards, you will be able to discover very good wines from unknown local producers. When you see this crowd of regulars who press every day, you can say that this restaurant is a symbol. In addition, themed evenings bring some music notes to your dinners, a real moment of conviviality! The reception is great. Success never wavered over the years. A must to discover or rediscover at will, "simply".

The Golden Lion is located on the village square in the heart of the Roannaise coast. You will be greeted with Carole's smile, and installed in the room of 40 seats, light, in the warm garden, or in the large room of 60 seats to enjoy the large fireplace in winter. Olivier Dekerle's cuisine is refined and goûteuse, made with beautiful products, he changes his card according to the seasons. At noon in the week, enjoy the feuilleté of potatoes in the St. nectaire, served warm with its pork chest slice, then the candied pork cheeks in vigneronne sauce, finish with crisp pineapple crisp. At the following menus you will enjoy the cassolette of mussels and its julienne vegetables fingers with Provençal flavours, or crisp snails to raw fruit and its mushrooms, then the back of cod roasted sauce safranée or the roasted veal veal, to finish with iced velvet at Grand Marnier and its flavoured citrus grout, or make your choice among the many cuts and sorbets ice. The wine menu will delight amateurs and service is always up to the top. A nice address!

The cosy dining room offers sturdy chairs. The pastel colour of the walls forms a green color with a multitude of plants that drink light from small glazed berries. Cloth towels hatch in lilies arts. A pink granite chimney, a little massive, and a winding road leads to the toilets. In service, Sabrina, natural, simple, inviting and in equal mood can accommodate up to 60 guests. David, in the furnaces, has a good kitchen with originality touches: feuillantine of moules sauce molds, medallion of burbot with red pepper cream, its house specialty: the pike cocoon in the grout of green crabs. The cheese platter is up and the gourmande trilogie deserves special mention for the meringuée lemon pie. A simple and good address at a wise price, as you love!

Fabien and his team await you in their new restaurant in the heart of a former weaving factory converted into a culinary workshop. The chef has tasty and high-quality cuisine, made with beautiful products and the presentation of the highest plates. In the Linden menu, enjoy a salmon tataki, sesame, rocket foam, and Madeleine madeleine or a duck ballottine with dry fruit and fat liver to start. To follow, a cod back in crust of herbs, grenades, lobster juice juice-citronella or a slice of conflict pig, boudin, ris, ham, ginger and pineapple. Finish with a nougat ice pacifier and pine nut, toast pear or sushi and white chocolate. Enjoy the beautiful days for lunch on the beautiful terrace of 30 seats. A new address!

In the middle of a preserved nature, almost wild between the ponds that are the landscape of the Forez Plain, La Cotonne is the fruit of shared passions for horse riding and gastronomy. In this magical place, a country inn with a bucolic and romantic atmosphere, we come, to two in love, to family with children or groups (reception room up to 180 people), to rediscover the taste of "real things". Old horse boxes have been transformed into an extraordinary dining room. Exposed stones, objects around the horse, beautiful fireplace in winter and tables well placed. A mixture of rustic and elegant elegance "farmer farmer", of the best effect. Side kitchen, slate choice according to season market and inspiration from head: bowl in old - and when you say bowl, it is that the whole bowl in its mould is put on the table! -, goose rillettes and toast, Bourgogne snails, delicious chicken liver cake and forest, grilled pig foot, whole duck magret… A table with gourmet accents in the area where homemade, classic desserts offer an original presentation.

On Jean-Jaurès Square, there is a restaurant that you cannot miss: the Poteaux Carrés.. Named after the crossbar which led to a defeat during the European Cup championship clubs in ASSE, the restaurant offers traditional cuisine and has not less than 90 seats inside and 200 outside. The staff is friendly, and many famous people - stephanoises or not - have lunch or dinner there. They served complete menus. All dishes are homemade with products of good quality and are bought in the best shops of the city and the surrounding area: Pécresse, Cornand, Weiss, the barn of ice-creams... In case of allergies or food intolerances, please feel free to inform the chef who will then propose an alternative. A sommelier will advise you about the appropriate wine during your meal: Pic Saint-Loup, Languedoc, Bordeaux, Minervois,... 

 Inside the all-white decoration is a mixture of sobriety and variegated and is quite modern. There is a bar - brasserie a few meters away and a hotel-restaurant in the District of Châteaucreux station, Poteaux Carrés restaurant has become a symbol in the Saint-Etienne culinary landscape. For any dish bought in this establishment, you'll get a cinema ticket for € 5.50 at the Alhambra.

Place Villeboeuf, Côté Parc serves a quality cuisine. This restaurant offers you a market cuisine based on fresh products remarkably prepared by the chef. Rather than a card as long as his arm, a sign that the dishes have simply come out of the freezer, the chef offers some well thought-out dishes. You will certainly succumb to homemade foie gras ice cream, roasted figs with honey, the duet of fishes of the moment bourride à la sétoise, beef steak with Montbrison baking powder or the crispy hazelnut praline! A sign of originality, the menu list has been reworked, as well as the wine list to accompany your meal.

In a modern, contemporary and warm setting, the whole team of La Conciergerie is at your service to make you enjoy a cuisine composed only of fresh products and regional specialties. The menu leaves you a wide choice of exceptional products. The products come from well known and recognized local producers. The sommelier will guide you in the choice of wine to accompany your meal. The dessert is made by them. A careful cuisine for everyone and for all tastes! Choose at your convenience the intimate living room or the shaded terrace for your work or family meals. All is said and done, and there is nothing to say, it's perfect!

Amateurs of artisanal cuisine can only indulge in this address, which combines the tradition of Lyon with that of Forez! If a gourmet menu is available permanently, you will also find several reasons to indulge in gourmandise sin. Foie gras baked homemade, chicken liver cake, roast breaded pig foot and special speciality, veal head gribiche sauce! It's a treat! If you really want to get an idea of, cuisine, this restaurant is all about doing it! The dessert is also a pleasant moment with vanilla baked cream or chocolate lukewarm soft. From A to Z, there is no bad surprise, Saltoise Base is an establishment to know!

This restaurant-pub-brasserie can receive more than 250 guests, almost half of them on the terrace. To meet all your expectations, a team of about people is at your disposal. A varied map is offered to you: salads, flammekueches, tartars and carpaccios… and serving: ice cream, soft chocolate, vacherin fruit… Large sporting events are broadcast on eight screens, including two giants, theme nights are regularly organised: karaoke, concerts, salsa, years 80… What a good time!

This restaurant is located in an old station. Enjoy the cuisine offered, a mixture of traditional dishes with personal touches and a house side with fresh produce. The map evolves over the course of the seasons, so you never eat the same thing. Don't miss the specialties of Thierry Philippon: the Caribbean bouillabaisse and the snail's cassolette at the Montbrison stone. To taste, among other things, the freshly baked goats, the large scuttling slats in Provence, or the chicken staircase with spice bread, finish with the cream burned to cardamome or the great Bulgarian sorbet and its red fruit coulis. 

Le Valjoly, named after a district of Sorbiers, is a restaurant offering French cuisine halfway between gastronomy and tradition. A touch of terroir, a mix of flavours, you will be surprised by home-made dishes concocted with quality raw materials. The market menu varies according to the day's purchases. Fillet of veal with wild mushrooms, fillet of cod poached in milk with tomato coulis and honey, foie gras with chanterelles, a fine selection of mature cheeses presented on a trolley... Many codes of "gastro" at affordable prices. The wine list is chiné at small independent winemakers, small jewels. A sure value.

Desire for change? Then go to La Marmot Gourmande to taste traditional Savoyard dishes (Fondue, Savoyard, Charcutière, Tartiflette, Strawberry, Gallows) in a room of 45 seats, pleasant and all wood. The dishes are plentiful, the large compound salads, the very well-filled charcuterie trays and the cheese presented in half-stone and melt under the heat of the fire. You can also enjoy the heated stone grill for two guests, accompanied by a large cornet of fries per person, with sauces, mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers… but you will also find dishes such as snails, the forestière forestière, green pepper, roquefort, herbs… or the meunière boom or cream, the saumon. In dessert, chocolate fondue, choice of ice cuts, pies, pancakes, choose the Nutella or the huge floating island with its homemade English cream and caramel. A menu of the day and even the tartiflette to take! In summer, enjoy frogs'legs and mussels. The staff were friendly and helpful.