LEO RESTO - AIRE DE MANZAT — Restaurant in Riom

Stopping at the Leo Resto Manzat rest stop and restaurant was the worst decision I have made in awhile. Hunger would have been more enjoyable than the ‘meal’ I had. If I understand it correctly, Casino, the low cost grocery store chain, operates this rest stop. The sign from the highway implied that it was an Italian style restaurant. If you served any of this food to an Italian, they would slap you and their grandmother would shame you for producing such poor food. From the barely cooked chicken sitting in water with slimy, uncooked skin hanging on, to the chunks of pumpkin with skin still on, suffocated in some unidentifiable ‘cheese’ sauce, this meal was a disaster! And expensive on top of it all! My stomach is so upset with me, it has decided to clamp down into a tight ball, to remind me for the next 3.5 hours what a poor choice I made! I have lived in France for 2 years now, and this is the worst meal I have ever had in France, and possibly my whole life! Even the gas station was 30centimes higher than other rest stops. STAY CLEAR, you have...

Most disgusting service station ever. We stopped for a little meal and to fill our gas tank. The gas was extremely expensive and the 50€ we spent didnt even fill completely our twingo's tank. About the meal, we got a pretzel that was weirdly sticky and the taste was not that good and a chocolate donut that was not too bad but i could feel that was there for a couple of days at the least, we also got a hot chocolate wich was good and a coffee that was indrinkable, it stinked so bad and the taste was indescribable, it smelt and tasted like dust and like a moka that is not cleaned for years and also 3 drink machines were broken. The workers were nice. The bathroom was very dirty and the soap was very stinky as well. I do not recommend to stop here, run away and find...

Passionné par la gastronomie depuis ma plus tendre enfance j'ai peu à peu développé mes papilles gustatives pour finalement parvenir à comprendre ce que chaque cuisinier cherchait à transmettre à travers son art. Cependant, j'éprouvais depuis quelques temps une certaine lassitude lorsque je découvrais un nouveau restaurant : chefs trop peu originaux, cuisine trop conventionnelle ou encore un service pas assez novateur et puis un soir, j'ai poussé la porte du restaurant de l'aire de Manzat : Dès les premières minutes toute ma conception de la cuisine moderne a volé en éclats. Enfin je me confrontais à un cuisinier qui refusait le conformisme et qui brisait les codes : des entrées - censément froides - tièdes, du poisson, tellement peu cuit qu'il bougeait encore dans mon assiette, agrémenté d'une variété de riz sauvage probablement coupé avec du gravier ; comble du comble et dans un élan de pédagogie, le serveur m'exhortait à réchauffer moi même mon plat ! Une expérience culinaire très instructive de laquelle je suis sorti grandi. Pour finir, l'établissement me laissait endosser le rôle de maître d'hôtel, m'enjoignant à débarrasser moi même ma table. Plus qu'un simple repas, un voyage et un apprentissage, le tout pour 23 euros.

Merci de sans cesse repousser les limites du...