Little Shabby Chic — Restaurant in Bergerac

With all the promise of a charming hidden tea room we bundled inside for a hot drink and some patisserie.

The waitress took three attempts to take our order (shabby but not chic) and still managed to get it wrong! We ordered one hot chocolate, and when enough for two arrived the polite young woman who’d made the hot chocolate was berated in front of us for being “too generous”.

Unfortunately there was no respite from the December cold outside, the coffee was lukewarm and the hot chocolate was kept not-quite-stone-cold by the skin of milk on top.

The decor wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste. A Lacy doily Pritt-sticked to a piece of card is certainly a statement of… something? The blue biro used to cross out the items on the menu they no longer served added to the DIY vibe.

Once we had eventually had the opportunity to make our orders, the coffee arrived cold. The hot chocolate was also cold and bitter and when poured out of the teapot it was served in the milk skin slurped out too with a mildly sickening splash.

One of the scones was stale, the brownkies (brownie topped with cookie) were half stale but the lemon cake was actually quite nice (and a generous slice too).

After paying an excessive amount for what can be described at as best “bless them they tried”, we crawled back out of the tiny door that would make Bilbo Baggins...

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D’abord il y a le village d’Issigeac, charmant parmi les villages charmants que l’on ne compte plus entre Périgord et Quercy. Charmant mais différent, car discret. Ensuite, il y a cette rue principale dont le visiteur pourrait se satisfaire tant elle est déjà riche en échoppes de qualité et restaurants corrects. Mais si le même visiteur décide de sortir du sentier battu et de s’engouffrer dans les ruelles adjacentes, il tombera au détour de l’une d’entre elles, sur un petit salon de thé blotti dans l’angle d’une maison sans âge, peuplé de détails improbables où se mélangent les lasures pastel, les objets incongrus et usés. L’intérieur est celui d’un roman d’Agatha Christie et l’extérieur se cache au vulgaire par une tonnelle naturelle que forme une vigne tendue entre les maisons. Comme Issigeac, le « shabby chic corner » est différemment charmant et discret. Quant aux thés (Dammann), aux glaces (de la manufacture des belles glaces), les jus de fruits (d’Alain Milliat), et les cakes fait maison, ils sont tout simplement exquis. Un vrai moment de bonheur, hors du temps...