Celebrated by the legendary writer Rabelais, Loire Valley offers many vegetable gardens, orchards and farms to discover. Enjoy strolling through French food markets, meeting local farmers and doing some shopping, savouring culinary delights in Loire Centre’s elegant local restaurants. A wealth of different cuisine, excellent cooking, local produce and gourmet food are all waiting to be discovered. To tickle your appetite here is a selection of regional produce and specialities:
- Carp, perch, pike, eel and zander fished from the Loire are served with delicious sauce of butter, shallots, garlic and white wine called beurre blanc or cooked in red wine.
- Delicious pâté on crunchy baguettes from Chartres.
- Fine quality vinegar from Orléans and Saffron from Gatinais.
- Great goats’ cheeses such as Crottin de Chavignol with a regional glass of wine - Sancerre, Chinon or Touraine.
- Tarte Tatin, an upside-down apple tart or the Poire Tapée of Rivarennes.
