Nevertheless, even the greatest healthy nutrition adepts should try a ring-dove stew. This amazing dish won’t disappoint even the greatest gourmet. When in Lot-et-Garrone, order a round apple pie for a dessert. A Lamprey à-la Bordelaise is the best in Gironde. This peculiar fish, which lives a parasitic mode of life in its natural habitat, becomes in the hands of the local chefs a real delicacy. The lamprey à-la Bordelaise is usually served with garlic croutons. As a dessert, you can order cannele Bordelais. In the Atlantic Pyrenees cuisine, you can really feel the Spanish influence. In this department, the restaurants are famous for their veal and Bayonne ham “Ochoa” courses, for royal chicken in pots, Ossau-Iraty cheese and of course Bayonne chocolate.
All around Aquitaine you can try foie gras and canned duck. Besides great wine, we should do justice to grape brandy, called Armagnac, and Gascon Bouquet, a sweet alcoholic drink, served as an aperitif. There are countless restaurants in all five departments, where you can have a great meal. Chez Diego Plage restaurant is located in Arcachon, the “oyster capital” of Aquitaine. Obviously, here they serve seafood. By the way, if you want to try oysters, but you don’t want to wait, there is a place, called Huîtres Laban, in the middle of the market, where you can buy cooked seafood at a reasonable price. Buffalo Grill restaurants are located in Pau and in Bordeaux. La Belle Etoile in La Roque-Gageac , La Baraque a Huitres in Cap-Ferrat, Un Parfum de Gourmandise in Perigueux, and many other places are ready to slightly reveal you the secrets of Aquitanian cuisine.
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