Hervé Busset - Conques-en-Rouergue

The restaurant has a 1 star Michelin award. The meal was very good, showing innovation, flair and beautiful presentation. The service was impeccable. Your choic... read more The restaurant has a 1 star Michelin award. The meal was very good, showing innovation, flair and beautiful presentation. The service was impeccable. Your choice is of anything between 3 and 6 courses, with a host of extraordinary 'mises en bouche ' tasters in between. Expect to pay €40 for the 3 courses, and €18 if you fancy a glass of Champagne. Not cheap, but then if you want cheap, you 'd stay in a Bed Breakfast in Conques anyway. The room cost €130 a night expensive in my opinion. The breakfast cost €20 per person, and would doubtless have been excellent, but for a third of that price we did OK in a motorway service centre.

Just fantastic: Perfumes all over your plate, imaginative display and composition, creative beyond words. Would be in London prices would add extra 0 and waitin... read more Just fantastic: Perfumes all over your plate, imaginative display and composition, creative beyond words. Would be in London prices would add extra 0 and waiting list couples of weeks. Too bad for the bad taste of paintings on the wall. Go all lucky food lovers travelling this part of the world. Whomever does not agree with us should take the line at MacDonald... Vive la France!

The setting of the restaurant/hotel is very relaxing, directly on a small river with views on green hills/mountains. The Aperitif was served outside and was a r... read more The setting of the restaurant/hotel is very relaxing, directly on a small river with views on green hills/mountains. The Aperitif was served outside and was a really nice start. For the Epure menue we went inside. The 8 courses brought some surprises in unknown tastes, for example a sauce from Douglas Tree in combination with trout or a puree of smoked sweet potatoes in combination with pigeon. We had a very nice organic Champagne that fitted the different courses very well the restaurant has a large selection of organic Champagnes! The presentation of the courses was thought through, though sometimes a bit colorless and pale in comparison to the presentation of the courses on the website, where there are a lot of flowers and herbs assorted together with the courses. – Particular the trout course looked a bit poor, though the taste was quiet nice. You are not visiting this restaurant for its interior design, though(! – which is a bit of a nightmare and looks more like a random collection of found things, then a thought through appropriate frame for the message of the kitchen...

We had a perfectly enjoyable meal in this pleasant environment, but it was not perticularly memorable. The food is unusual and beautifully presented, but the ge... read more We had a perfectly enjoyable meal in this pleasant environment, but it was not perticularly memorable. The food is unusual and beautifully presented, but the general feeling was that the experience was more artistic than gastronomic. The decor is like so many chic French restaurants very modern, a but hard and angular, peculiar metal sculptures on the table, and lighting so low that we had to use our iphone flashlights to read the menu. Good chefs should not put themselves in the hands of trendy avant garde interior designers! Let the food speak for itself.

Then the Hervé Busset restaurant is the place for you. Situated outside the small town of Conques Mr. Busset creates simple but delicious and imaginative dishes... read more Then the Hervé Busset restaurant is the place for you. Situated outside the small town of Conques Mr. Busset creates simple but delicious and imaginative dishes using first clas products and herbs that you may never have heard of or at the most are quite rare. For example, how often have you heard of or even eaten hedge woundwort, yarrow flowers and ground ivy? The chef proposes a set menu, soup, meat, fish, poultry with an alternative if there is something you don' eat and each dish is artfully presented by the maître d' and his cheerful assistant. Congratulations to cuisinier Busset is 1 *Michelin really enough???