A small restaurant coupled with a grocery store, which recently opened in a village of 500 inhabitants like Puivert, remains an event. Villages supplied by crows, the evil tongues will say, but happy to be far from the turpitudes of a broken down world will add the most informed. The birth of a place of meeting, conviviality and exchange around well-prepared dishes can only be beneficial for the future of this village dominated by history.
” Local “. A name that doesn’t mislead. The anchorage of the place is located on the main road to Puivert. Equipped with a space with a terrace, well ventilated, bright, warm, where you can be with friends, to chat and interpret the world without a compass or sextant. It was at the request of Mayor Olivier Ferrier and to replace an old Afghan restaurant that the couple and future manager of the “Local”, Marina Cobac and Maxime Sanchez, in a phase of evolution in their personal lives, decided to throw yourself with a big splash into the pot of gastronomy from here and elsewhere.
An elsewhere that looks towards Asian cuisine in the land of wild boar stew. Don’t see any provocation on their part, but an intended enrichment for your taste buds.
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Flemish Belgian cook
On the day of our Spartan meal, beef ramen was served to us by chef Ruben Asseman. Belgian. A Flemish Belgian cook enjoying Asian gastronomy in Cathar land, pretty Belgium. Having arrived in Chalabre 4 years ago, he met by chance the chef of the Créa Mundo restaurant in Léran, in neighboring Ariège. Ruben, as much a cook as Bocuse was a stonemason, but ready to embark on this sudden change of existence, quickly replaced the former clerk who was ill. On the job, he took an interest in the sweet madness of the songs of the frying pans and the fiery cooking of small onions. In addition, he combined a Belgian-style vegetarianism – he didn’t ask us what that consisted of – with the irrepressible demand for meat from the local tribes.
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We cannot blame him for his good taste for French, Italian and Asian cuisine, a trio that inspires his preparations. “Le Local” offers a simple formula on a single menu: starter, main course and dessert at 18.50 euros and 16.50 for two courses, with openings only in the evening during the week as summer approaches and, closed on Wednesday evening, so as not to interfere with the village’s gourmet market that day.
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Extra groceries
To come, an “oysters and white wine” formula on Sunday lunchtime during the summer season will be put in place, with a special tapas menu for Thursday evening. Another interesting part to take into account for locals is the “Local” grocery store. Basic necessities, which offer more than just a little help, with a bread drop-off and your favorite newspaper coming in the bins. With around twenty seats per service and double that with the terrace for bright days, if you pass through Puivert on the “Local” side, call them on: 04 68 20 68 12.
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We could not be complete if we omitted the two other gastronomic brands in the village, which do not have a grocery section. First, Le Dorival and its refined cuisine (04 11 66 98 82) and, Le Refuge Gourmand and its generous combined plates (04 68 69 85 67). You will never die of hunger in this part of the Upper Aude Valley.
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Melodies from the depths of the ages
The Lady with the Tanpura is none other than Rachel Salter, guide at the Quercorb Museum in Puivert. Musician and scholar of Troubadour history. They worked in Puivert and Languedoc from the 11th to the 13th centuries, and Rachel will take you through time. We are in another dimension, when with her we find ourselves in the courtyard of the castle or in the musicians’ room located in the dungeon. The unique acoustics allow us to glimpse, with its vocal harmonies, what the courtly love of these poet-musicians could have been, in those centuries that were ultimately not so dark, compared to everything that currently surrounds us.
The White Lady of Puivert
Between legend and historical reality there is often only one step that some people take too easily. Rachel Salter knew how to make this legend her own without falling into easy fabrication. She appropriates the fate of this Aragonese princess who lived for a long time on the lands of Puivert, spending her time contemplating the lake which one day engulfed her due to a sudden flood. She then reappeared at the edge of the lake and in the castle, as if haunted by these sad events. Inspired and inhabited by the music of the troubadours and the legend of the White Lady, Rachel in her journey which begins at the Quercorb museum and follows the side roads to the Puivert castle, will tell you the adventures of Bernard de Vontadour or Guillaume d’Aquitaine, first known troubadour and grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The visit takes place during the summer on Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m. for the history of the Troubadours and every Monday at 3:00 p.m. for the legend of the White Lady, in music, with all of Rachel’s talent to make you dream. From June 1 to August 31, at the Quercorb Museum, the totally immersive photo, sound and video exhibition “Paths of Migration” on Occitan history and culture seen by two Irish photographers, relates their interpretation of our history. common. Contact: 04 68 69 81 51
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