relais de la tour - Châlus

Had lunch there this week Tete de vaux comes highly recommended though not to everybodys taste had an alternative on the menu with soup,onion pie,and pot au feux

This is a great lunch pit stop. You can tell by the number of trucks that are always in the car park. These guys know where you can get decent, uncomplicated but plentiful food for lunch at a decent price. And it didn’t disappoint. We had a tureen of very good vegetable soup, crudités, melting pork belly (chicken had run out, the truckers had eaten it all) with lovely sautéed potatoes and onions finished off with a homemade dessert. Didn’t have the cheese but what I saw going past looked copious and in very good condition. The lady who looked after us, who I presume was Veronique, was rushed off her feet but still managed to be perfectly charming. For 25 odd euros for two of us I was more than happy. The place is well maintained and clean. Old fashioned French with a lovely atmosphere. So if you are on the road between Rochechouart and Chalus at lunchtime ......

A very welcoming restaurant and bar catering for all.A proper Routier.Good freshly cooked food with a happy atmosphere and pleasant owners and staff.

I love this place, it's good simple food done well at a really reasonable cost. I've been a few times for dinner and recently went for lunch which was fantastic. This isn't the smartest looking place in the world but the food is good.

It's a truck stop, right? A place where you get a massive home cooked meal served quickly at prices which make you wonder how they do it. For 14 euros, you help yourself from a tureen of soup, then you get a massive plate of salad or quiche or pate, followed by another massive platter of steak and mash, or pork chops with cabbage, or whatever they're cooking that day, and then the cheese board gets plonked on your table, and then there's a generous pudding (fruit tart, chocolate mousse, etc). A carafe of red wine is thrown in with it. No garnishes, no fiddly shapes drawn on the side of the plate in Balsamic goo, no bits of seagrass, no fancy shapes, no mini fryers for your chips. It's all fresh, home-cooked and plentiful. So if you're hungry, this is the place for you. If you're not really hungry, you have food fads, and/or you want to fiddle about with pretty little messes rather than wolf down a massive lunch, go some place else! Oh yes... it's clean, the loos are clean, the service is efficient and smiley, the decor is servicable. But you go there for the food. Yum.