Auberge De La Tour — Restaurant in Brignoles

If you are in Aups on Saturday morning you must go to the lovely market right outside the hotel. So convenient to get some delicious cheeses, sausage, olives, fresh fruits and vegetables to try from the market. We also walked around the charming medieval town which is not crowded and the people are so friendly. For shopping, the summer clothes selection at Toucan Creations next to the Fromentine et Sarrazin creperie are lovely, the owner Valerie speaks fluent English. We enjoyed our dinner at the L Alguiere round the corner of the shop. ||At the hotel, we were welcomed during check in by Cindy who was very helpful and friendly. All the staff there are nice. ||The room is simple and clean. The bathroom is outdated. Shower is small. The water for shower is lukewarm. The internet connection didn’t connect for us almost all the time and definitely not from the room. The room faces the restaurant so you can hear the dining activities till the service is over. There is no air-conditioning so you open the window for ventilation. It is cheaper than other hotels so it is a good choice if you wish to be next to the market and walking distance to the restaurants. There is a large parking lot in front of the hotel but you cannot park there on Saturday when the market is operating. Please drop your luggage at the hotel first and then go to find parking beside the children’s playground further away. There is no lift so you need to carry your luggage up the stairs...

If you are in Aups on Saturday morning you must go to the lovely market right outside the hotel. So convenient to get some delicious cheeses, sausage, olives, fresh fruits and vegetables to try from the market. We also walked around the charming medieval town which is not crowded and the people are so friendly. For shopping, the summer clothes selection at Toucan Creations next to the Fromentine et Sarrazin creperie are lovely, the owner Valerie speaks fluent English. We enjoyed our dinner at the L Alguiere round the corner of the shop. ||At the hotel, we were welcomed during check in by Cindy who was very helpful and friendly. All the staff there are nice. ||The room is simple and clean. The bathroom is outdated. Shower is small. The water for shower is lukewarm. The internet connection didn’t connect for us almost all the time and definitely not from the room. The room faces the restaurant so you can hear the dining activities till the service is over. There is no air-conditioning so you open the window for ventilation. It is cheaper than other hotels so it is a good choice if you wish to be next to the market and walking distance to the restaurants. There is a large parking lot in front of the hotel but you cannot park there on Saturday when the market is operating. Please drop your luggage at the hotel first and then go to find parking beside the children’s playground further away. There is no lift so you need to carry your luggage up the stairs...

We had seen this restaurant packed the night before so booked a table for the next day after reading what seemed to be a very promising menu. Unfortunately, the food did not live up to expectations. The special angus steak was sold out by 19.30, the pesto was NOT pesto. If you’re expecting pesto, ie the real Italian version then forget it. This is a tomato and basil sauce with a few pine nuts thrown in. Pizza was not brilliant, even my teenage son had trouble finishing it and he will eat anything as most boys do. The porc with cepes was ok but did not really taste of much and was dry. The beef check was soft and nice but the rest of the dish was bland and swimming in water. The starter of foie gras is overpriced and seemed perfumed with cinnamon which did spoil the dish if you don’t like cinnamon. I did ask for a small dish of pasta with pesto on the side for my daughter, age 10, and was told fairly rudely by the waitress that this may not be possible. After insisting and asking how complicated could it be and how pesto can vary, she promptly put me back in my place and said she was not scared of us rating her pesto....