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This charming restaurant, where one can eat outside under the cool shade of trees, in what was once the village school, is well worth visiting again and again.
Mylène and Christophe, have created a distinctive ambience, where food is both pleasure and art.
Although best in the Summer months, the auberge has a sizeable dining room available out of season.
In summer, this restaurant specializes in dishes grilled over a wood fire located in the courtyard. Sunday lunch under the trees is a treat everyone should experience. The cheerful dining room is more formal, but very comfortable. The menu often features game such as sanglier (wild boar) or pheasant.
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"Our lunch at the Auberge de Saint Martin was served to us outside in the courtyard at Anthony's request. It was another perfect weather day (we really only had one cold day!) and the sun was bright and lovely and eating outside is always pleasant in such circumstances (especially if you are in a lovely well-kept courtyard with trees and flowers!). They brought us out a salad that was the best I'd ever had and I madly wrote down what I thought was in it: endive lettuce, ham, cheese, apple tomato, walnuts and O&V dressing. That may not be it at all, but heh, one can experiment. Pork in mustard sauce, three cheeses, and a lovely dessert of a Pear in wine sauce with an almond cookie AND to top it off Café Crème. Oh yes, it was a very nice meal..."
- Terrine de foie gras maison
à la gelée de Muscat du Domaine Barroubio
- Noix de St Jacques au safran,
Flan aux épinards
- Bourride de lotte au fumet de crabes
- Suprêmes de faisan flambé au Cointreau,
Endives à l’orange
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Opening Restaurant:
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01 january to 30 march - From 12:00 to 13:30 and from 19:30 to 21:30
- Closed day(s): Monday
- Tuesday evening -
Wednesday evening - Thursday
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- Sunday evening
- 01 april to 30
september - From 12:00 to 13:45 and from 19:30 to 21:45
- Closed day(s): Monday
- 01 october to 31
december - From 12:00 to 13:45 and from 19:00 to 22:00
- Closed day(s): Monday
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Wednesday evening - Thursday
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Sunday evening
and ... November
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1 Restaurant room, 45 seats indoor,
75 seats on terrace 
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Booster seat
* Restaurant
* Garden
* Parking
* Private Terrace
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* Banquet
* Caterer
* Pets allowed
* Disabled reception
* Groups accepted
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Minerve
Homps is a picturesque French village set on the Canal du Midi
and adjacent to the Lac du Jouarres with beaches
for swimming and water sports.
Lac de Jouarres
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The Minervois is one of the most ancient vineyards of the Mediterranean region. Indeed, its land was chosen by the Romans as providing ideal conditions for the first vines they planted in Languedoc Roussillon. Its name comes from the ancient city of Minerve, a stronghold built by the Romans and dedicated to the goddess Minerva. Since that time, many amphora shards and vestiges of cellars have been discovered, testimony to the importance of this vineyard. The region, austere in winter and redolent with sunshine in summer, has survived over the centuries its invasions by barbarians, Arabs and Christians. The essence of Minervois la Livinière, as in so many Midi appellations, is the blend; a marriage of different grape varieties that adds subtle nuance of flavour to the whole. Natural alcohol level must reach a minimum of 12% without enrichment (so no chaptalisation) and maximum yield is a modest 45 hl/ha. Ageing may be in barrel or vat, and unlike basic Minervois, the wine must be bottled at source, so cannot be sent off to a négociant elsewhere in France...
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Vin de Pays d’Oc,
Vin de Pays de l’Aude |
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Vin de Pays means 'country wine' to the French, but to outsiders it can mean New World with a French accent. These are the wines which the French authorities unreservedly allow to be labelled with the grape variety from which they were made. It is difficult to over-estimate the importance of this large and growing category of wines for the future of the French wine trade. The French themselves may have tended to see any Vin de Pays as distinctly inferior to any appellation contrôlée wine, whereas many of their customers abroad see the better Vins de Pays as good-value, user-friendly, sometimes high-quality non-conformist emissaries from the world's most revered wine producer....
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Auberge de St Martin ** |
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Restaurant Traditional |
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11 Avenue du Général de Gaulle
34210 BEAUFORT |
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Phone. +33 4.68.91.16.18
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christophe.lepian@sfr.fr
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Menus: 23.00 € to 38.00 €
Child menu: 10.00 €
Daily special: 14.50 € to 17.00 € |
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Le Musée
du Château de Ventenac |
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A place, a history, a passion ... Cross the aisle vault, lined tanks of old Verrees, enter the heart of our cave and visit the museum. Follow the marked route and discover the old tools, cooperage, carriages and wagons old. The Castle of Ventenac was erected in the eighteenth century on the foundations of an ancient castle. The name of Ventenac is its etymology in Roman times: Villa Ventenachus. Castrum Venthenacum was taken in the twelfth century by Simon de Montfort at the time of the Cathars. This is the nineteenth century that Ms. Seguy Saint Siran built the castle in its present form, giving it its prestigious appearance reminiscent of a religious building. At his death, the vineyard, the cellar and the castle became the property of Pauline Meyer. It is in 1938 that deal with the threat of war, the Meyer family left France....
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This replica of a 19th-century traditional river barge was built to play a role in the French television series La Rivière Espérance. It sails on three canals: the Canal du Midi, the Canal de Jonction and the Canal de la Robine. It offers travellers who want to recapture the authentic feel of canal cruising a chance to discover the wonders of the Canal du Midi... People come here to live one moment at a boat out of the ordinary! For it is especially user-friendliness in question. "La Capitane" navigates from the Easter holidays to autumn holidays. It offers cruises with 1:30 and passing through a lock for groups up to 50 people, cruises for half day and full day (see prices). In case of rain a sun awning shelters you...
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Campsite Le Mas de Lignières |
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A naturist site hidden in the hills of the Minervois, only 3 km. from the medieval town of Minerve. There are marvellous views to the Pyrénées, the Corbières and the coast at Narbonne. Jeanne continues to run the site (following the sad death of Gilles) and offers a warm welcome, and promoting an enjoyable family atmosphere....
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Using dioramas (original figurines presented in various scenes), the museum tells the story of the tragic saga of the Occitan Cathars. In the 13th century, the catholic princes, spurred on by Pope Innocent III, decided to put an end to Cathar influence in the provinces of Languedoc, Simon de Montfort came to impose the law and the catholic faith in Languedoc by force and fire. The local barons and knights then took up arms to defend their land, their faith and their culture. Following many years of combat, they lost their independence and were forced, in humiliation, to witness the martyrdom of the Cathars under their protection, who were burnt at the stake on enormous pyres...
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Le Moulin de l'Oulibo - L’Odyssée de l’Olivier |
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L'Oulibou is a fascinating place to visit. Only 3.5 km from Mailhac, it produces some award winning oils and olives which can be sampled in the very mill where they have been made. You can also see the whole process that olives go through in order to make them into a wide variety of oils. The 'lucque' is one of the main olives of the Languedoc Roussillon area and it under goes some magical transformation within the walls of this traditional mill. 2 kilometres from Bize, just off the main road between Beziers and Carcassonne, you will find l’Oulibo, a cooperative that produces some of the best olives and olive oils in France. Bize is part of the Minervois region that includes the village of Minerve 10kms to the north which was the site of a famous siege by Simon de Montfort and the consequent martyrdom of the Cathars. Nearby are Beziers (35 minutes) and Narbonne (25 minutes) with cathedrals, excellent markets, shops, museums, and much more...
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Croisières du
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2 hours cruising discovered in return: Departure from Homps, passing the bridge of Jouarres (1730), crossing the lock of Jouarres (height 4 metres), passing the bridge of the Métairies du Bois (built at the end of the 17th century), passing the Relais de la Dinée stage for the post boat, crossing the aqueduct of Argent-Double (1688), you will see the magnificent stone spillway of Argent-Double (1693), passing the bridge Pont Neuf (1788), and return to the port of Homps. During the trip we comment the story of the Canal, the working of the locks, the fauna and the flora, the technological evolution in the construction of the bridges and the utilisation of the Canal today...
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