La Champignonniere du Saut Aux Loups — Attraction in Saumur

The restaurant did not live up to my expectations in terms of food or service. For a place that is meant to showcase mushrooms there was only one mushroom choice for starter (mushroom gazpacho) and main (stuffed mushroom). It was nice but I honestly could have made just as good at home. My partner was equally disappointed with his. Service was slow: we had reserved a table - waited for 10 minutes and then seated ourselves to the annoyance of the staff who had ignored us for that time while setting the tables - it is quite a climb up so we just wanted a seat out of the sun! One young server did about 90% of the work. They appeared to be understaffed and certainly not ready for the guests arriving for the evening. 30 minutes to order food although we weren’t too bothered as we were out for a leisurely...

Le jour du champignon - The day of the mushroom. 🍄🍄🍄

Wonderful self guided tour of the mushroom farm at Le Saut aux Loups. The Champignonniere is a beautiful place to visit, taking you through all the stages of mushroom growing, deep in the limestone caves typical in this region.

Lots of very beautiful carvings in the stone and coloured lighting to highlight the scale and shapes of the caves, carved out over the centuries to build the white stone buildings that punctuate the landscape all along the Loire river.

Great place to visit, and also has a fantastic...

Entered the museum thinking it was about living in the cave houses, but was delightfully surprised to find it was about mushroom cultivation. A very interesting showcasing of the progress made in mushroom cultivation, and you can even see actual mushrooms being grown !! My main issue was that they only had explanations in french, for english/german explanation brochure you had to scan a QR code at the entrance, and it was hard to match where you were in the tour to the text. Overall, a great place to visit if you have any interest at all in...