Le P’tit Loup — Restaurant in Bergerac

If you care about seeing and feeling a true to life experience of normal* French cooking and bon amis, then this little pub is the place to go. Without pretension, excellent cooking comes forth from their immaculate kitchen, fabulous and entertaining host Bruno will make you feel at home and play your favourite Gainsbourg tracks perhaps! But for goodness sake smile. Informal wee place, you can easily sit at the bar and work up your appetite watching all the typical dishes of the region passing by you en route to happy locals.

This is the place to go. Enjoy your meal and then go back to enjoy more the following night. That's exactly what we did.

*normal French cooking = by which I mean cooking you pay top dollar for back home. The quality of the cooking we received here is what I dream of. At home (Scotland) it is now impossible to find an unpretentious pub in which you can order food cooked with the understanding and innate skill of Bruno's chef. Simple stuff, but that's not to be sniffed at as so many 'so called' professional chefs get this kind of 'simple' stuff wrong night after night, whilst charging x3 or x4 the price of the P'tit Loup.

I haven't mentioned the dishes, gizzards, steak, foie gras, the sweet scent of duck fat everywhere. Served to you next to a roaring open fireplace. Your wee dog is welcome and the delicious house red comes by the jug. If I lived in the Dordogne I would soon be a very happy, very fat man and an alcoholic to boot. Le P'tit Loup would be entirely to blame. Too good to miss. Go visit Bruno. Love...

This place was recommended to us as having decent food and the owner being a character and lots of fun. However, the reality is something different. The food was bland at best, the owner surly and in need of attention to his personal hygene, the staff just as miserable and oh so slow. The place was dirty and unkempt and this is me trying to keep it polite. To cap it all, my wife was groped by a greasy little oick sat at the bar, but knowing what the result would be, didnt tell me until we were back in Blighty.

In summary, awful. Truly...

Si vous êtes de passage à Lalinde, ne manquez pas le bar/resto Le P'tit Loup ! C'est une véritable pépite qui vous fera voyager dans le temps. 🕰️✨

Ancienne cantine du village, le bâtiment a été magnifiquement conservé, avec son évier d'origine et certains meubles d'époque qui ajoutent un charme authentique et nostalgique. Le décor vous plonge dans l'histoire locale tout en offrant un cadre chaleureux et accueillant.

Le chef, véritable passionné des bons produits, nous a préparé une assiette mixte délicieuse qui ravira les amateurs de gastronomie. Chaque bouchée témoigne de l'amour et du soin apportés à la sélection des ingrédients. C’est une véritable ode à la cuisine locale !

Mais ce n'est pas tout : nous avons également eu la chance de rencontrer des personnes locales super sympathiques qui ajoutent une touche d'hospitalité et de convivialité à l'expérience. Laissez-vous porter par l'ambiance du lieu et profitez de la rencontre avec les habitants du village.

Un endroit incontournable pour ceux qui veulent allier découverte culinaire et immersion dans l’histoire de Lalinde. Je recommande vivement de s’y arrêter et de vivre cette expérience...