Serves traditional and creative French gastronomique cuisine, prepared with fish, hare, quail, veal sweetbreads and lobster, inside an ancient half-timbered homestead and, when it's warm, outside on a lovely terrace.
Auberge du XIIe Siècle
Touraine
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