It’s a perpetuated story that doesn’t date from yesterday. At the beginning of the 20th centurye century, the house of the blacksmith wheelwright Mathieu Lapeyre stood directly above the unpaved road known as the main communication road (D 41 today). “We were already serving pints and toast there,” attests a document. Then, in 1960, kidneys were offered to Banyuls and the fresh liver was washed down with apple juice and hot grapes.
The 1is August 1960, Irène Decis took over and, until 1973, continued the traditions: “Serge Blanco can testify and so many other rugby players”. In short, we must very quickly add an annex with 150 seats. In 1973, Roland Lacoste, a child from Rion, arrived and named the place Le Relais des Landes with new à la carte recipes. And here is our Maïté who, beyond the verve and truculence of the words we know from her, also has a heart like that.
Third halves
For quite some time now, she has been providing comfort during the third halves. At the beginning, only the omelette with potatoes and titions (rillettes) soothed the hollow stomach of team 1. By gradually expanding these first improved eggs, she made these evenings legendary until this famous invitation, in 1983, by Bernard Ducamp, president of the rugby club which invites FR3 during the rise to 3e division. In the television team, director Patrice Bellot, who had an idea for a cooking show in mind. It will become “The Mousquetaires’ kitchen”.
A new life begins for the lady of the house who, moreover, succeeds Roland in September 1988. She has a blast serving this cuisine from the heart on a base of breast and other lamb shoulders stuffed with foie gras, to make one salivate. regiment; without forgetting the coypu stew “to clean the Poste stream”.
A lick, a suspicion, a dip? How important! Armagnac is on fire everywhere, including in February 1993 when Jacques Valade, president of the Regional Council, presented it with the Aquitaine medal of honor.
Maïté retired on June 2, 1993. Too busy with television and cinema, she offered, on a Saturday in November, as a farewell and thank you to all the people of Rion, a crazy evening of atmosphere: we had served more than a thousand seats! She then abandoned the management of the Relais des Landes, whose transformation of the site would have pleased the diva…
