The best restaurants Midi-Pyrénées

On place aux Aux, where the offer is everywhere, Vanilla Passion is certainly one of the best artisanal glaciers of Uzès. In the summer, all tables are stormed because the cuts are full and grandiose, the choice of sorbets and the bold ice creams, the fast service. If the ice with thyme or violet may seem strange to taste, that to the kernel is a safe value, especially as this subtle scent is not everywhere. At the end of the summer, the glacier transforms itself into crépier with a little less fantasy.

On a night street in Nîmes, where you can be served late, Lakayna is the oldest Maghreb restaurant in the city. Maintained by a Kabyle family, for nearly 20 years, this restaurant has maintained its course with the creation of a day tea salon in 2010. The beautiful display of pastries at the entrance makes it really tempting to try. Bois, octagonal, octagonal tables, colourful curtains, oriental music and oriental music, you will find North Africa in all its evocative decorum. The traditional and family kitchen is supervised by the Sympathique Sympathique, which likes spicy flavours, often sweet-salted, and the ras el hanoud (curry, cumin, turmeric). Pastillas, laminated to meat and cinnamon, hello and tagines, home specialities are served dildo. Lamb, chicken, merguez, hefta (white viande) or fish, seafood accompanied by a semolina of common wheat, vegetables and legumes (chickpeas). The gourmands will continue with desert cakes or faisselle to honey. All accompanied by a mint tea, of course.

Still so many fast-foods in Nîmes, especially on the top of Gambetta Boulevard or on the Rue de la République. Most of them are of Maghreb origin. There are few Turks who have set themselves on this ground, yet as everyone knows it is the Greeks then the Stambuliotes who invented the famous Oriental sandwich. Aydemir Anahtar, located in the capital Gardoise since the 90 s, opened its snack in 1994. Since then, the success of his formula is not dément. He and his employee do not have the same to prepare and toast Halal meat, guaranteed 100% veal. They know how to choose wheat breads and cakes at a good supplier in Avignon and, finally, they pass the white sauce, a smooth mixture of sesame cream, yogurt, garlic and herbs. In short, it is good and rich especially if, with the kebab kebab, you ask for filling (salad, onions, fries). Some prefer garlic-flavored garlic boulettes and herbs (köfte), or Turkish sausages, turkey steak, and merguez with fries or crushed wheat. Take the Turkish nougat (helva pistachio) at 2 € the slice.

Card changed regularly with daily specials. Sheltered outdoor terrace and 2 vaulted rooms on the ground floor, beams and fireplace on the floor. Mixed clients, resolutely gay friendly. Over the months, Laurent and Davy are a cuisine with flavours reminiscent of those of the Mediterranean.

The only Armenian restaurant in Nîmes, or in the department, the Keep Grill is the case of the Petrosyan family, which settled in the plot quarter in the 2010 th century. At the moment, the large glass refrigerator which welcomes you at the entrance gives a snack-bar air instead. But the smiling service of the boss, quick to explain the map, reassures you. Close to territories, Armenian cuisine is used by its Turkish neighbour, while developing its Russian side. Charcuterie, marinated égumes, grape leaves, laminated to meat, cheese… entries are without great originality. You can catch up on dishes, kievski, lamb boulettes or huge herbal sausages, which you can ask with boulghour and bohemian house. This eastern version of the ratatouille is served with great reinforcement of coriander, courgettes and aubergines. Lamb ou or beef, kébab adana and the famous dolma (cabbage, pepper and stuffed eggplant) also have spicy flavors, cumin, coriander, nutmeg. To discover!

This is a good address ideally located in the centre of Foix, with a breathtaking view of the castle, perfect for a family lunch or a romantic dinner. The superb sunny terrace adjoins a secure children's garden, where you can enjoy yourself while the toddlers scream and play without disturbing the audience. The reception is at the level of the quality of the service, sober and elegant, and the value for money is excellent. Quail, trout, duck breast, foie gras... the originality of the dishes on the menu demonstrates a gastronomic desire for novelty.

After ten years in Switzerland, Hélène and Jean-Marie set up their pots in Castelnau-le-Lez. Two adjoining rooms with modern and colourful decor. Note the children's drawing wall, an original and successful initiative to make children work with digital tools during the meal. On the menu of the day, parsley razor shell clams with a small salad, red mullet with coconut milk. A great care in the supplies: fish from Sète, snails cassolette from Uzes and Charolais meat. In the winter, the garbure of the Pyrenees.

If it happens that the creperies and glaciers of the seaside resorts abandon quality for the setting, La Fabrique is totally out of the cliché! The success of this address, full of good sense and flavour, proves that it is possible to make good things with fresh produce and a touch of creativity. On the plates, you'll find homemade pancakes and crêpes that are a credit to Brittany. The dough is fine, the flavours are present, the pancake is copiously filled, we are conquered! But the seduction of the establishment does not stop there since La Fabrique is also an ice-cream maker. Indeed, their delicious ice creams are produced in their local laboratory. It couldn't be any fresher!

Between Margeride and Aubrac, close to Ganivet Lake, Sandra and Bashir warmly welcome you and offer quality cuisine based on local products. They produce a sophisticated kitchen with a friendly and family atmosphere. The decoration is simple: wooden furniture with beautiful red tablecloths, as well as small lamps on the walls. Top kitchen, gizzards salad, cute filet pork cream, refined cheese platter, and finally, a eggs and caramel cream. For wines, a wine of country ribs of the coast of Thongue the beautiful cross, an AOC Saint Nicholas de Bourgueil "les Asseliéres" and an AOC Faugères (Domaine Capitel).

Small room but broad ideas at Claude and Eliane, people from the North arriving in Nîmes to the Mont-Duplan district. Amateurs of exoticism, this is where you have to come when a little stuffed of the southerners kitchens, you are looking to discover another formula, which keeps the body. We warn you immediately, here we are among the ch, football fans (go lens!), amateurs of mussels-fries, of course fricandelle, that is, sausage cut in two in the direction of width. The royal is served with bacon, elongated of cheese or the Ch'ti plate, i. e. haché steak with double slices of lard, melted cheese, fries and salad. Get to the big appetites! For those who do not want to go down, there is always the chicken to the Provençal.

Located in the very heart of the small city of Margeride, on the foirle, the material symbol and next to the church for the spiritual side, this small restaurant changed ownership in 2009. Gilles, original lyonais is now on the orders. It will serve you without chichi a simple and tasty local cuisine and will make you discover for example the house meats, frogs' legs, the calf head to the torchon, trilx, and desserts a delicious apple pie. It watches a good selection of wines from the coasts. For a small stop, on the terrace, you can enjoy a delicious auvergnate salad for example.