Chez Paul — Restaurant in Gourdon

We stopped at Paul’s charming cafe after an exhausting day of village hopping, but by that time the restaurants have closed. Fortunately there were still a few of the quiches left and they saved us. Are they home-made? They tasted like it. We scarfed down every crumb. The proprietor (Paul?) was very gracious and pointed us to magazines in English introducing us to the region. Also, I want to add the ambience and the little store attached really added to the enjoyability of our visit. The prices were very good for the quality and the ambiance.

I bought a caramel muffin to go, which I take it is not exactly authentic local but OMG it was good. Sticky, toothsome and not too sweet. I ate it the next morning and it was still...

We ended up in Carennax by accident, not realising that the Gouffre de Picard was a very, very, very popular tourist destination. We are spontaneous by nature and decided to just check it out on our way from Vichy to Toulouse. What ended up happening was that we had to wait 3 hours for our tour of the Gouffre and spent some time walking around beautiful Carennac and ended up at Chez Paul's. The atmosphere and vibe were really nice and Paul was very lovely! And the muffiiiiiiins!! We bought two to eat down by the river and then realised we probably should have bought (at least) two each because they were absolutely delicious, the best muffins we...

Wow. Having Chez Paul around the corner from our air BnB really made the trip for us. Each morning we walked over, sat at nice roadside tables, and had well-made drinks and fantastic pastries to start our day, along with conversation with our hosts, Paul and Jason. Paul makes the pastries fresh each day, which is just amazing. The sweet scones and the citron muffins are the best I've had anywhere, by far. Loved sitting at the table, watching the bicyclers and dog walkers stop by. This is the very soul of a...