Loire Valley restaurants

Amongst the finest French castles, Loire Valley tours offers multitude opportunities to appreciate outstanding Loire cuisine.

Touraine is a thriving food region, where classic French Loire cuisine is much celebrated and fresh local produce is dominant in many restaurants.

In the Loire Valley and more precisely the Touraine, restaurants are generally serving lunch from 12pm and dinner from 8pm. They are many dinning options which will delight your palate going from the little cafés, brasseries and créperies, to the gourmet and gastronomic restaurants.

Cafés, brasseries and créperies are perfect for relatively quick meals. Cafés serve scrumptious snacks and coffee, whilst brasseries often serve a "dish of the day" or a "menu of the day". Créperies are specialised in offering French crepes, as well as offering fresh salads, a range of desserts and alcoholic beverages. Being relatively casual places and offering a very friendly atmosphere, these options are suitable for families, small groups, people on the run...

Gourmet and gastronomic restaurants will them offer at least one fixed price menu (or more) and you will also need to allow yourself a higher budget. These menus generally feature a refined starter, a salad or vegetables served separately, a gourmet main course with fine regional produces (with option of meat or fish dish - or both), a cheese dish and a delicate dessert.

For most of these restaurants the menu will varie according to each seasons in order to adapt the produces best and present seasonal ingredients (mushrooms in autumn, asparagus in spring, truffles in winter, strawberries in summer...).

RiverLoire team members are great fans of the Loire cuisine and local gastronomy and we have selected numerous Loire Valley Tours in order to share our passion for our local cuisine. In most of our Loire Valley Tours the breakfasts, lunches and dinners are included. Our promise is that you should not need to reach into your pocket once you have arrived.

Please have a look at our Loire Valley Wine tours and Wine and gastronomy Weekend with a strong gastronomy flavour.