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Eating & Sleeping

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5 Le Petit Paris Regional Cuisine €€ 5 Au Hasard
(%05 53 28 41 10; www.le-petit-paris.fr; Daglan; Balthazar Regional Cuisine €€
menus €29-39; hnoon-1.30pm Tue-Sun & (%05 65 37 42 01; www.auhasardbalthazar.
7-8.45pm Tue-Sat late-Feb–mid-Nov) Friendly fr; rue Tournemire; lunch/dinner menus from
staff serve you on little Daglan’s central square, €19/28; hnoon-1.30pm Tue-Sun & 7.30-
promoting an elegant ‘there’s all the time in 9.30pm Tue-Sat May-Aug, shorter hours Apr &
the world’ feel, while wowing with impeccable Sep) Local farm Les Bouriettes operates this
seasonal local cuisine. Spring brings lovely wonderful shop and restaurant filled with their
asparagus, the rest of the year find tender super products. Friendly proprietors serve
Limousin beef, falling off the bone, or foie gras regional specialities in the courtyard below
that melts in your mouth. It’s 11km south of the Tour Tournemire, or in the intimate stone
Domme. dining room. Imagine ingredients like walnut oil,
pigeon confit, foie gras and wine mustard.
4 La Guérinière B&B €€ ATLANTIC COAST 36 DORDOGNE’S FORTIFIED VILLAGES
(%05 53 29 91 97; www.la-gueriniere-dordogne. 4 Manoir de Malagorse B&B €€
com; Cénac et St-Julien; d incl breakfast €105, q (%05 65 27 14 83; www.manoir-de-malagorse.
€175; Ws) Surrounded by 6-hectare grounds fr; Cuzance; d incl breakfast €160-200, ste
in the valley 5km south of Domme along the €290-320; hmid-Mar–mid-Dec; Ws) In quiet
D46, this family-friendly B&B’s rooms are all Cuzance, 8km northwest of Martel, this beauty
named after flowers: our faves are Mimosa, with of a B&B offers luxury normally reserved for top-
its sloping roof and chinoiserie wardrobe, and end hotels. Owners Anna and Abel’s period house
the supersized Bleuet room. Book ahead for is a chic combo of sleek lines, soothing colours
tables d’hôte (set menus; €28 including wine) and fluffy fabrics. It’s surrounded by 10 private
that use mostly organic produce. acres, and the four-course home-cooked dinner
(€42) is superb. Hosts winter truffle weekends.
4 Château de
Maraval Design Hotel €€€
(%06 06 94 37 61; www.chateaudemaraval. Najac 8
fr; Cénac-et-Saint-Julien; d €195; hFeb-Dec;
paWs) Here’s your chance to combine 4 Oustal del Barry Hotel €
historic elegance (a grand château in lush (%05 65 29 74 32; www.oustaldelbarry.com; place
grounds) with contemporary luxury (mod du Faubourg; s €54, d €65-70; aW) The best
rooms kitted out with design tapestries, sleek hotel in town is this wonderfully worn and rustic
furnishings and high-concept bathrooms). This auberge, with haphazard rooms filled with trinkets
friendly escape just south of Domme in Cénac and solid furniture to match its venerable timber-
pampers with high-threadcount linens, spa framed facade. Try for a room with a balcony. Visit
facilities and an idyllic pool. its renowned country restaurant (menus €22 to
€56) for traditional southwest cuisine.

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