Le Plantagenêt restaurant: gourmet dinner in a relaxed atmosphere

A la carte dinner & menus

dishes with * are made according to local recipes or use typical local ingredients

Please note: during winter restaurant Le Plantagenêt is closed for dinner every Sunday and Monday until the 3rd of March 2020.

 

Menu Plantagenêt …

Starter – main course – dessert 32€ 
Starter – main course – cheese 34€  
Starter – main course – cheese - dessert 39€

Today’s market fresh starter or
La Gouline: local pie with mushrooms, rillauds (=pork), shallots, local white wine, cheese and cream sauce* or
French onion soup with Comté cheese
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Chef’s main course of the day or
Typical French fish dish: pike perch quenelle, saffron sauce, seasonal vegetables or
Wild boar stew, grandma's vegetables*
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Three French cheeses: local or from further away served with tossed leaves*
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Crémet d'Anjou - the regional dessert with cream, fromage frais, prunes in local red wine* or
Chocolate & mint mousse served in a jar or
Mango-coconut crême brulée
 

A la carte - starters...   16€                                                                                                                                     

• Butternut cream soup served with a foie gras & fig chutney toast*
• Baked scallops, sesame crisp, mango & ginger dressing, lamb’s lettuce
• Baked veal sweetbreads, caramelised parsnip purée, some seasonal mushrooms
• La Gouline - a small local pie with mushrooms, rillauds (=pork), shallots, local white wine, cheese and cream sauce* 
• Local duck foie gras accompanied by a mango jelly, home baked brioche bread served in a miniature flower pot*

 

A la carte - main courses...   24€

•  Seafood casserole topped with puff pastry: monk fish, scallops, salmon, carrot, celeriac, mushrooms and a saffron fish sauce                                                                    
• Grilled scallops with Espelette pepper, black rice risotto, meat gravy
• Typical dish from Tours: veal kidneys, veal sweetbreads and local mushrooms in a tasty gravy, celeriac purée*
• Black Angus beef, château style potatoes with black garlic and cep mushrooms                                                                                                     
• Duck breast with carrots, salsify, pear & quince chutney, coffee and orange           

 

A la carte - cheese & desserts...   10€                                         

• Three cheeses: local or from further away served with a local citrus liqueur chutney and some tossed leaves*   
• Combination of caramel, chocolate and hazelnuts
• Heavenly: a dark chocolate dome with seasonal fruit, almond-vanilla cream, chocolate sauce
• Loire Valley style crêpes Suzette: flambéed thin pancakes with Saumur’s favourite liqueur*
• Tarte vigneronne - local dessert with puff pastry, pear, red wine jelly and almond cream*

Food & wine pairing - 3 glasses of Loire Valley wine 12 cl each: 18€                   
       
            

Junior menu up to 10 years of age… 15€

• Small portion of pan fried salmon and some vegetables or
• Farmhouse chicken breast with French fries

and

• Crémet d’Anjou with mango* - THE local dessert made with fromage frais, cream and seasonal fruit or
• Two scoops of home made sorbet or ice cream