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Restaurant familial près de Carcasonne
Restaurant La Carabène, open since 2014, welcomes you in Limoux, near Carcassonne in the Aude, to let you discover its cuisine. The restaurant's name is named after the traditional accessory of the Limoux carnival: the carabene. It is a cane, decorated and wrapped that the carnival carnivalists hold.
Catering, our passion!
With over 30 years of experience in the field and true lovers of traditional French cuisine, you will be able to taste our specialties such as Cassoulet or Fricassée. We have two dining rooms that can accommodate groups from 40 to 75 seats to welcome you all year round, for your group meals, birthday meals, baptisms and meetings or lovers meals... |
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Traditional French cuisine near Carcassonne
Located in Limoux, the center of the Blanquette de Limoux and near Carcassonne and the Cathar castles in the Aude, Restaurant La Carabène will introduce you to
the traditional French cuisine. From cassoulet to roasted fish in the oven, from meat to shellfish, there is something for everyone! All our products and fish are fresh and come from the region. We also have a range of wines that go perfectly with all of your dishes.
Visit the region and the tourist town of Limoux
With its
many museums, the carnival and
the various wine cellars of the
region, you can stroll through
the city with friends or family.
Discover
our shaded terrace to enjoy the
nice weather or inside our
air-conditioned restaurant room.
You can privatize
our room for all your events.
For more
information or to make a
reservation request, please
contact restaurant La
Carabène...
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Opening Restaurant:
- 01 january to 31 december
- Tuesday / Friday - From 12:00 to 13:45 and from 19:00 to 20:45
- Wednesday /
Thursday - From 12:00 to
13:45
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Saturday / Sunday - From 12:00 to 13:45 and from 19:00 to 20:45
- Closed day(s): Monday
Capacity Restaurant:
- 2 Restaurant rooms,
115 seats indoor, 30 seats on terrace
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* Restaurant
* Public Parking
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Air conditioning
* Terrace |
* Child friendly
* Dogs allowed!
* Groups accepted |
Carnaval at Limoux, The Limoux Fecos, All the Bandes
Limoux
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Limoux is best known for its sparkling wine, Blanquette de Limoux. This is reputed to be the oldest sparkling wine in France and dates back to 1531 when Benedictine monks from Saint Hilaire Abbey discovered that the wine they had laid down had fermented and formed bubbles. This was the beginning of Limoux’s bubbly - the Blanquette de Limoux which was the first AOC to be created in the Languedoc area. The process (the locals say) was stolen by Dom Perignon who went on to create ‘champagne‘. however the Limoux sparkling wine is a very high quality champagne substitute and Crémant, which was developed in 1990, has a top class reputation. Now a prestigious event attracting buyers from all over the world, “Toques & Clochers” puts up for auction the most promising barrels of AOC Limoux. A share of the proceeds are then used to finance the renovation of bell towers in surrounding villages. Every year the auction is hosted by one of France’s great chefs popularly referred to as a “Toques”, the traditional white chef’s hat....
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History tells us that Blanquette de Limoux, the world's first sparkling wine,
dates as far back as 1531. At the time, the monks of the Benedictine abbey of
Saint-Hilaire, near Limoux, were producing a somewhat unusual white wine in
their cellars. Inside its glass flask, with a cork top - very rare for wines at
this time - it acquired a natural sparkle. This was the forefather of the brut
which is tasted today at the world's most prestigious tables. Since they first
started cultivating vines, the growers of Limoux have aimed at maintaining the
originality of the Blanquette de Limoux growth and developing its quality. The
region's surrounding hills protect it from the extremes of the Mediterranean and
Atlantic climates, with the area enjoying a microclimate particularly suitable
for making quality white wine. The vines classified in the appellation are
always planted at the top of southern-facing slopes, giving the best exposure.
The soil here is shallow and sparse, full of chalk and stone....
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Restaurant La Carabène ** |
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Restaurant Traditional |
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46 bis, Promenade du Tivoli
11300 LIMOUX |
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Phone +33 7.77.91.01.63
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la-carabene11@orange.fr
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www.restaurant-la-carabene.fr |
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Menus: 26.00 € to 32.00 €
Child Menu: 10.00 €
A la Carte: 13.00 € to 24.00 €
Daily Menu: 10.00 € to 15.00 € |
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Visitors can discover more than 100 robots in this mechanical pantomime in a series of worlds where characters inspired by stories and myths stand side by side with the Venice Carnival and other fantasies? Tours of the creative workshop. Limoux seems to be an enchanting town where any dream is possible. If you are a fairy tale lover, the Automaton Museum (“Musée des Automates” in French) is worth a visit! You will discover a great collection of Perrault’s stories and Venice Carnival, a very enchanted world!...
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Musée
des Dinosaurus d’Espéraza |
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Dinosauria is the first dinosaur museum in Europe. It has 3,000 sq m of exhibition space where you'll find a magnificent collection of dinosaurs, fossils of reptiles, mammals, invertebrates and plants from this region and throughout the world. From the Cretaceous Period glasshouse, which shows what plants were like 70 million years ago, you can get a direct view of researchers working in the laboratory. During school holidays children aged 6-12 can be shown excavation techniques and learn how to be real palaeontologists. The museum is open to the public in July and August. The excavation site is the richest deposit of fossils in France, where ... 'Eva' was discovered....
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Club Canoë Kayak de Limoux |
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The Limoux Canoe-Kayak Club invites you to explore our region in an original way in an (un-sinkable) canoe or kayak, alone, as a couple, with your family or in a group. You will be enchanted by the beauty and variety of the countryside which can only be seen whilst paddling down the river Aude. The Limoux Club is also a canoeing school, affiliated to the Federation Francaise de Canoë-Kayak. We are lucky to have an exceptional site both in terms of position and our surroundings : picnic area, private parking, changing rooms, campsite, swimming pool, tennis courts, boulodrôme, restaurants and hôtels. All that is needed to have a great visit and discover all the qualities of our club....
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The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Hilaire stands in the picturesque valley of the Lauquet. It occupies a dominant position in the heart of the former medieval fortress of Saint-Hilaire. The monastery is on a human scale surrounding its Gothic cloister. It houses the sarcophagus of Saint Saturninus, a major work by the Master of Cabestany. This was where the monks invented, in 1531, the world's first sparkling wine - Blanquette....
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Jardin aux Plantes parfumées
la Bouichère |
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In Limoux, in the High Valley of Aude, is hidden a garden of thousand and one scentences.. Perfumed Rose garden, dry Garden, medieval garden with plants from the Cathar century. An enchanting place at 15 minutes from the city of Carcassonne. 2 hectares, 2500 items of plants, waterpond, donkeys... rare cecreams with fruits of the garden... A nice collection of scented Pelargoniums, spices, scented trees… Come and say hello to our exotic birds...
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Eglise St Jacques et Musée du Piano |
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Collection of pianos from the nineteenth century to our days. The only museum in France devoted to pianos and their manufacture. Around one hundred examples showing the evolution of the piano through two centuries of history. You will discover some very rare or even unique models : upright pianos, grand pianos, square pianos, models that open or with tilting keyboards, Pianolas and many more curiosities, some of which unique by their construction as well as their purpose...
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With its boldly painted rooms, high glass ceilings and drawing room furniture, this museum founded in 1880 has retained its "Belle Epoque" charm. The exhibits displayed illustrate the academic style of the second half of the 19 C. at the beginning of the 20 C. Marie Petiet, Achille Laugé collection. The Musée Petiet began when the Petiet family of artists donated their collections and their home to the town. Additional private donations, and gifts to the State make up the rest of the collection...
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Ferme équestre
de Pommayrac |
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The "Domaine de Pommayrac" does green tourism and
has an extensive amount to offer, in a cosy and family-friendly atmosphere. With
our horse farm, kayak centre, restaurant on site and varied accommodation, we
are perfectly adapted to families and groups. In the countryside between Carcassonne and Limoux, in the green Corbières, we are the ideal location to visit a region rich in sights, summer festivals, and to practice sports in a preserved natural environment.
During the school holidays (April, November, February, July and August) the younger ones can participate in pony activities (half- or full-day), teenagers enjoy horseweeks (accommodation among teens in rest house or tent, or with parents). Parents are free to visit the area, or take part in riding activities too!
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