Breakfast is buffet-style and includes home-made granola and yogurt, freshly baked croissants, seasonal fruit, tea and freshly brewed coffee. Full English breakfast is available on request (€8).  

Evening meals (from €30) are usually four courses (with coffee) and can include such favourites as:

 

     Twice baked goat’s cheese soufflé with

     red onion marmalade     

                            

     Cooked oysters served on a bed of 
     sautéed leeks with a parmesan topping
     
     Mixed seafood salad or home-smoked mackerel          served with a Thai dressing
                                   
      
Seared duck breast served with plum sauce
Duo of salmon served with a creamy herb sauce
Lamb shanks served with an orange and mint sauce

 

Coffee cognac pannacottas served with balsamic strawberries

Individual Grand Marnier chocolate mousse 

Cherry frangipane tart served with cherry ice cream 



     
     And sometimes to finish, cherries soaked in
     cognac for 3 years and then dipped in toffee
     and dark chocolate - yummy

 




All our sauces, chutneys and jams are home-made, even the ice-cream.

 

We take pride in using locally sourced ingredients such as fresh fish and oysters from Charente Maritime, meat from the local butcher, and cheeses, vegetables and salads from the market in Jarnac or the nearby farm shop. Meals include a couple of glasses of local wine (red, white or rosé). In addition to serving French food and local specialities we also like to use recipes that we have collected during our travels overseas.  


    
           
May - freshly picked cherries to make Kirsch       




October - our own chilli peppers to make tomato chilli jam and chilli sauce