Hi folks - so while on holiday in France you have to try some of the local grub right - and this place in the Dordogne fits the bill... and the views....
I am so jealous that you can just travel to France for a weekend, that duck salad looked amazing. That steak is pretty blue lol but the shallot sauce yum! :)
Yes, we're lucky in the UK that we have many great cities and countries within easy reach (although we now have to stand in longer lines at immigration control at the border!)
The “cold” duck you tried on your salad was not cooked bur actually cured and air dried duck magret. Delicious when sliced thin. Equally “gésier de canard” is equally delicious!
@@TulipB89 generally it’s just cured with salt, sugar and spice but can be cold smoked to add a different dimension. In Perigord cuisine it’s usually unsmoked.
We live in the south west of France and even after 20 years I still have confit de canard whenever I can. The dry chewy duck meat was probably cured as per charcuterie. Enjoy the good weather !
You are probably right with the duck curing. The weather has been great for the whole time we have been in France. We just missed that crazy 37 degree heat, and the only rainy day we had was spent travelling between the Loire and the Dordogne. Can't complain at that!!
We had a lovely week in the Dordogne, canoeing the river, visiting markets that wind throught the streets of small towns, and seeing historical old towns. Beautiful.
Fantastic location and food to match. I'm glad you ordered a salad mains, I don't know why so few youtubers include them. I would much rather have a really good quality salad in summer and see them being reviewed, especially for lunch.
It's funny, the Greenager really isn't adventurous, but Little'un is completely different. On this trip she was wolfing down tapenade, pates, the duck variations, sausages of all kinds.
I was raised in England a very long time ago,and only ate the English foods of the day,long before all the imaginations,and all the different foods you can now get,I went to the US almost 60 years ago,and learned to eat food from all over the World there,you don’t need parents to introduce you to an adventurous diet,you just need to try foods for yourself.I have to say that there isn’t much I don’t like,fat on food is one of the things I don’t eat,and never did even as a child.😊
@@JanetBrown-px2jn oh I agree, you grow into things certainly. I hated all fruit and most veg as a kid (it's a family joke that I would only have peas and sweetcorn, with any meal!!). I think it's when you start to fend for yourself, or eat out more often that you come across things and try them probably.
Magnificent! 30+ years ago, when the kids were small, we used to holiday in the Dordogne. I can still remember meals at the Esplanade in Domme. Thanks for bringing back the memory.
Another great and unique look at off-grid food. The location, weather and food made you want to be there. Not somewhere we've ever considered, but that may now change. Cheers Greeno. 😉
Congratulations on going over 10,000 , well deserved . A great review , although I kept getting distracted by that magnificent view . I have to agree about the frites , those were standard chip shop chips , do you think they keep a batch on hand for British customers ? Steak looked great & I could almost smell the onion's 😍. Next to cassoulet , duck confit is my favourite duck dish . Shout out to the ever patient Mrs Greeno and Littleun for letting you taste their food first , must have been torture wondering if there was going to be any left🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Hope you continue to enjoy your time in France .
Thanks for the kind words 🙂 Normally when we do these reviews together we kind of share everything between us, so as soon as I am done with the few bites of the first dish and onto the second they are already munching 🙂
Nice to see you in Domme, which is right down the road from my house. That duck confit should have been crispy, and the frîtes looked anemic, but apart from that you did a good sampling of our regional fare. You should have had an ice cream, though -- that's what the Belvedere is known for. Bonne route!
What a view - WOW! That food looked delicious! I love confit duck, when done properly it is so succulent. 5/5 and a Greeno Green Light is well deserved and no surprise. Thank you for a lovely video.
It was a stunning location Gary, that was the reason I picked it, just in the hope the food would be ok. And boy was it better than ok (well apart from the chips maybe) - a great lunch full of regional specialities in beautiful weather with that view, well it has to be 5/5 🙂
❤❤❤ Stunning view, great choices in food. Well done ordering from the French menu! I'd be so intimidated. Also 😂Gary's insect dinner guest😊🐝 Thank you for a wonderful meal, and review. Best to family.
Hi Greeno 👋 never been outside of Australia 🇦🇺 These videos are so interesting and enlightening! You are so lucky to be so close to different countries❤❤
That food looked absolutely lovely. Thank you for a great review Greano. I have to say, 'Littlen' is a credit to great food. Not many kids appreciate nice food like she does.
Hi Greeno Yes agree with you lovely terraced restaurant with great views. As said before France is not one of those places that I would visit. Well as I know nothing about french food the only part pf the meals you had would have been the Steak( Medium to well done for me) and those lovely potatoes. I was not keen to much on the duck or that Salad. Glad you are having a great time with your family and agree with you if Gary was there we would have had a running commentary saying how great it was,Thank you for sharing
It's a bit of a cliche...but...The two most beautiful dishes I have ever had was when I was in the Dordogne area. A Salade du Perigord which did have a little Foie Gras in it along with some cold smoked Magret, Walnuts, Frisee (sp?) and other stuff in a total tourist trap place (Les Jardins de Marqueyssac..But it really was amazing and good value) and a dish of fried in it's own fat Magret and Chips, this was at a little place (Le Plan d'O in Frayssinet-le-Gelat) that consisted of two sheds...One was the Bar the other the Kitchen. It was located on the shores of a lake and the tables and chairs were all mismatched plastic garden furniture...but that dish was utterly amazing!!!
Hi Greeno, what a beautiful location & a great video! The meal looked really good all-round. Chips a bit of a let-down though.The quality of your reviews are going from strength to strength... Really want to see your channel keep growing. Enjoy the rest of your time in France. 😊
Another great review much better life style in France have had a house in Normandy for nineteen years can't wait to retire to get out there permanently
Nice, whereabouts in Normandy are you? Do you have the citizenship and everything sorted to be able to retire there? I'd love to do similar, but think I would encounter Brexit related problems... Mrs Greeno being Hungarian could of course move to France tomorrow should she wish ha ha!
Hi Greeno, that meal looked fantastic, my wife and i used to seek out places like that when we travelled in Europe before children! Loved the look of the confit duck but even though im a butcher to trade, id like my steak under the grill for a wee bit longer! What a great find! Nice one!👍👏👏👏♥️
It is harder when you have children - we couldn't have eaten at this place were the Greenager with us, but Little'un's an adventurous sort and will have a go at most things - even duck gizzard!!
Looks beautiful mate much nicer than Huddersfield,lol😂 looks like a nice place to relax have a delicious lunch . Absolutely fantastic views . Bon appetit, Guten appetit Jó étvágyat 😋😋😋😋Enjoy my friend cheers Ask Mrs Greeno if Hungarian is correct lol translated from German lol
Looked very good, I travelled around that area 10 years ago with a friend and it was amazing.2 years ago around Lyon was different foods! Hope it wasn't too expensive?
For the 3 main courses, plus 1 beer, a small white wine and a soft drink the bill was 67 Euros, which I don't think is excessive at all. France does have a lot of very specific regional dishes, but then it does have wildly different geography and climate which lends itself to that as different things are farmed in different areas.
It pays to know the language, I remember ordering pigeon in Caen as I recognised the word in my schoolboy French. It came on a bed of raw ox liver cut into thin strips mixed with onion, looked just like worms in a compost heap, couldn't even try it.
A fantastic location you came across there Greeno. I reckon the view on it's own was worth a score of 3 and more than compensated for the average pommel frites.
Yep, properly stunning location wasn't it - the chips were a bit of a letdown, but not worth kocking half a point off when everything else was so good!
Hiya Greeno, take it as read, that if you suffer from agoraphobia, you're not going to worry about that beautiful view. However, the food would be enough to to keep Monsieu Creosote happy. All the dishes looked like a class acts. Picky bits. Gizzards, well just not British, our fault I'm sure, but each to their own. Love Duck, but as with all the poultry and most game birds. Has to be crispy skin, well seasoned. Steak and chips, oh all right Frites😂🙄. Blue is the colour, not only for Chelsea FC, but your steak. And why not. Only other question. Who was the chip snaffler??? Good informative video. See you in the next video Allan&Family
Little'un was snaffling the chips! I didn't mind as they were the one disappointing parts of an otherwise excellent meal (plus I had eaten some of her spuds before 🤣)
That looked amazing! And fair play for trying something new. On my last trip to Albania (I think I've mentioned this once before 😂) I tried meat stew. I didn't know what it was but the meat was soo good - turned out to be beef liver. Definitely taught me not to be so fussy!
Reminds me of a story of a pal of mine who worked in the oil industry. On trip to Russia his translator took him for a meal in some godforesaken town - really tastystew - turned out to be bear meat !
If you have come round to gizzard, you're surely ready for some speciality french sausage, & a step nearer sweet meats. The other thing to remember is the constituent components of a dish of proper haggis for instance, then take it a step further into the culinary void. especially at something like a proper southern US bbq, always a good doorway into the strange stuff imho. France is definitely the place to try stuff good n' rustic daily specials more often than not.
@@JanetBrown-px2jn more side dishes, but considering local USAF guys I knew here in the uk used to buy in what would be deemed oddities to us, chicken feet & the likes were available in their base supermarket, & some obscure dishes brought to general bbq socials back in the day. so maybe therefor soulfood classification? the likes of chitterlings (common in the uk till the 70's) ham hocks, done various ways, pigs feet. neck bones & rice, ..I could associate those things with some of the quainter spanish tapas I tried such as pigs ear, not forgetting that in the uk we don't tend to eat "muddy tasting" river fish, so even a fried catfish which I travelled for in the states is the type of food met with a "yuck" & viewed with suspicion, tripe once very popular over here is almost a dead market for all but pet food.
culinary =basically anything related to food , kitchen, the act of cooking, ..void =empty space, filling the void is therefore going for the rarer / unusual, likely fallen out of favour or unknown ...thus whilst the uk has come a long way many culinary foods have fallen by the wayside or are simply unknown quantities, ..thus trying something as mentioned above, is most definitely a void space to many in the uk, offal & nose to tail eating have very much fallen out of favour, ..people who will happily eat black pudding (blood sausage) when presented with it by another name would not be able to put the similarities together & simply give it a go. (sad that) ..does that offer enough clarification for you?
@GreenoEats Ramsay Kerridge etc con men .Kerridge especially loses weight after years of overindulgence writes a book on it ££££now seems to have put some weight on again Thanks to M&S lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Respect to you on your foie gras opinion, barbaric practice. Great place with a wonderful view and the food did look appetising. Very enjoyable review, cheers 😊👍
What a wonderful place to eat, apart from the pesky 🐝 ! Food looked delicious, I think I would have tried the steak first, then the confit duck then left the cold salad until last. Does Mrs Greeno & littl’un like their steak as rare as that, or was it always intended mostly for you ? Great vlog Greeno
I do love a good salad. Duck is my favourite, a huge salad. . If it's on the menu, I tend to have it. We have cofiet of duck here at home cooked in its own fats in the slow cooker and its wonderful.
Mrs Greeno is the same, I sometimes find it a bit rich, and not cooked well. But here as a regional speciality I knew they'd have thecooking on point. Would you have eaten it with the gizzard listed on the menu?
My ex ordered andoulette in Dijon It’s meat served in an intestine of a cow I saw it was on your menu I’d definitely avoid - I can’t describe the smell & taste of it on here !
Looked delicious Greeno 👍 Shame about the chips but the steak looked spot on. I think what we call offal is making something of a comeback, which is good. My gran flavoured her delicious chicken soup with that and the rest of the carcass.
The soup my Mother-in-law makes has all sorts in it - it's a thin broth / stock, but had gizzard, pork, chicken, kohlrabi and a variety of other things. Makes a very tasty soup though!
Gizzard is weirder than snails or frogs legs in my book! I have also had both on previous trips - snails I am a bit meh about, mostly because I find the garlic a bit much they're normally served with. I did once have them in Nice though with feta cheese, and that was yummy!
That salad is mammoth! 😲 Not sure about the gizzards though 🤢 It may be a salad but it would be nice for the duck to be warmed through - its flavour would have come to life 🫤 Then it would have been really tasty! 😋 Steak chips and salad - always a winner! 👍 Shame chips weren’t thrice cooked - then you would be talking! 😋
This was a fab lunch, in possibly one of the most spectacular locations I’ve been lucky enough to eat in. I have to say the gizzards were a bit of a challenge mentally, but that whole thing tasted great.
I think the gizzard is kind of a pre-stomach, used to process more difficult to digest items before they head to the stomach. Doesn't make it sound that appealing to eat does it lol
@@GreenoEats I've grown up with chickens and rabbits in the yard at home. Often helped my dad to butcher and prepare them for roasting. The main stomach is if I'm right what you call the 'gizard' . (the prestomach in chickens and ducks is sort of part of the intestines). When butchering the animals we removed all intestines and we took out stomach, heart and liver to cook with the rest of the animal. Stomach got cut in half to remove the internal sac/membrane and cleaned/ further on gallbladder got to be removed from the liver without breaking the membrane.
Duck isn’t my favourite but I’d have tried it all. No point in visiting a different country without trying the local dishes. I think the confit duck would be my favourite. Never had great chips abroad, sadly everywhere seems to use frozen ones nowadays.
I agree with you on foie gras, it is unspeakably cruel and tastes like butter that sat beside a steak for 20 seconds. I honestly don't know what the French see in it, considering everything else they eat is absolutely incredible. How I wish I was in your shoes today. Amazing. One critique: I would not be driving and that beer would be a large red wine.
Even though Mrs Greeno is Hungarian, and learned to drive on the right hand side of the road, she now refuses to do so. All the driving falls to me unfortunately.
Really special location wsn't it. I know the steak cookery wouldn't be for everyone, but the skill to cook it that way and not having it leak everywhere is impressive!
Great venue to eat. Glad you tried something French...... I'm bored of watching so called reviewers reviewing crappy processed food abroad...... I once enjoyed a horse rump steak. Didn't know at the time, but it was so good, I have eaten horse a few times. Frois Gras is right up my street and the farming of it very conscious its poor history. A good blue to very rare steak I'd describe that. At the end of the day, given the location and view, a bag of crisps and a pint of lager would be great!
Fricassee du chat entir? On the menu in a Parisian restaurant it's usually disguised as a lamb dish.¹ ¹ you might think I am making it up 😐 unfortunately there is a bit of historic fact there ... but you don't want to hear about the old well behind a restaurant in Paris and what were found in it
@@GreenoEats cat skeletons. Mostly skulls. Out 'round the back of a once popular lamb restaurant. Try *waterkonijn* in Belgium; sort of a delicacy that few Belgian restaurant (well, Flemish) serve. And nobody serves *dakhaas* in the Netherlands (old people in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Utrecht are familiar with the term). Know my maternal grandfather ... hmmmh ... 'obtained' dakhaas at least once. In Rotterdam.
I kept rewinding for the view, very envious, my Mrs. wont get a passport, so my foreign travel is over! Oh! the food, looked lovely, that steak was almost blue, love it like that! My IG message is still there, under my real name, ask Gary, lol!
Hi folks - so while on holiday in France you have to try some of the local grub right - and this place in the Dordogne fits the bill... and the views....
What did you think of the salad - would the fact it had duck (or maybe goose) gizzards in put you off?
Bet i could find a Full English in that village 😂😂😂
@@GreenoEats The salad is more likely to put me off to be fair...!! 🤣
@@GreenoEats I've only ever tried fried chicken gizzards. I can't imagine they are much different. I'd take them over the chicken feet.
@@GreenoEats I mean, it looked really yummi, I would try if I would not know what it is 🤣
I am so jealous that you can just travel to France for a weekend, that duck salad looked amazing. That steak is pretty blue lol but the shallot sauce yum! :)
Yes, we're lucky in the UK that we have many great cities and countries within easy reach (although we now have to stand in longer lines at immigration control at the border!)
Beautiful place, amazing views and lovely looking food. Excellent review
It was absolutely stunning. Great view, beautiful weather and local specialities and a steak a good vet could get back to life. Pretty damned good !!
Absolutely stunning location and views from the restaurant. 10/10
Beautiful food in a stunning setting, magnifique!
Everything looked great. Duck is by far my favorite poultry. Great vid.
It was delicious, even if I hadn't started the day expecting to eat gizzards!!
@@GreenoEats My girlfriend loves chicken livers- pass!
@@worldsgreatestimpressionis6462 mine too, and also pass!!
The “cold” duck you tried on your salad was not cooked bur actually cured and air dried duck magret. Delicious when sliced thin. Equally “gésier de canard” is equally delicious!
That's good information, thank you!
I was thinking that too. On an UK menu its described as smoked duck. yummy 😋
@@TulipB89 generally it’s just cured with salt, sugar and spice but can be cold smoked to add a different dimension. In Perigord cuisine it’s usually unsmoked.
Beautiful view hilltop town of Domme. Wow. Would love to have a holiday Greeno. Take care.
It was a truly wonderful place to have lunch in the sunshine!
@@GreenoEats It looks it. I love France.
@@Filmmaker809 agreed, I could quite happily live in France 🙂
You've really grown on me during the time I've been following you. You're such a lovely guy and family man 😊
Ah, that's kind of you to say, thanks !
Great to see your little one trying different food and eating well as some kids these days are too fussy! Xx
In fairness she is pretty adventurous with her food - not many things that she won't try - doesn't always like them but happy to try !
We live in the south west of France and even after 20 years I still have confit de canard whenever I can. The dry chewy duck meat was probably cured as per charcuterie. Enjoy the good weather !
You are probably right with the duck curing. The weather has been great for the whole time we have been in France. We just missed that crazy 37 degree heat, and the only rainy day we had was spent travelling between the Loire and the Dordogne. Can't complain at that!!
Great review great views Keep going well done again😊
Thanks, appreciate the kind words!
Love that part of France, used to go when my kids were young. Food looked fabulous.
We had a lovely week in the Dordogne, canoeing the river, visiting markets that wind throught the streets of small towns, and seeing historical old towns. Beautiful.
Fantastic location and food to match. I'm glad you ordered a salad mains, I don't know why so few youtubers include them. I would much rather have a really good quality salad in summer and see them being reviewed, especially for lunch.
If all salads were this good I'd eat them all the time!! It was delicious 🙂
How I wish I had parents who encouraged me to be more adventurous foodwise! Litl'one is a lucky one!
It's funny, the Greenager really isn't adventurous, but Little'un is completely different. On this trip she was wolfing down tapenade, pates, the duck variations, sausages of all kinds.
The Greenager will grow out of it eventually! Fingers crossed.
@@veroniquedambrun7517 yeah I hope so, she is slowly improving, but still misses out on so much good stuff!
I was raised in England a very long time ago,and only ate the English foods of the day,long before all the imaginations,and all the different foods you can now get,I went to the US almost 60 years ago,and learned to eat food from all over the World there,you don’t need parents to introduce you to an adventurous diet,you just need to try foods for yourself.I have to say that there isn’t much I don’t like,fat on food is one of the things I don’t eat,and never did even as a child.😊
@@JanetBrown-px2jn oh I agree, you grow into things certainly. I hated all fruit and most veg as a kid (it's a family joke that I would only have peas and sweetcorn, with any meal!!). I think it's when you start to fend for yourself, or eat out more often that you come across things and try them probably.
French cuisine is the best in the world in my opinion.
and this offering looked very good. 9.5/10
They certainly know their way around a kitchen the French!
Beautiful sunny day. Beautiful view and beautiful food what's not to love ..thx greeno loved the video ..
Yeah, perfect holiday day out. Nothing to complain about 🙂
Magnificent! 30+ years ago, when the kids were small, we used to holiday in the Dordogne. I can still remember meals at the Esplanade in Domme. Thanks for bringing back the memory.
Glad to have triggered some happy memories 🙂
Loving your work as always Greeno! brings a smile to my face everytime you do your chuckle....keep it up!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! And I'm a relatively cheerful soul, so I guess you get to hear the chuckle quite a bit!
What an amazing view Greeno, stunning wow
Hang on, is this really the Cameraman, or is someone masquerading as him??😂😂😂
@@GreenoEats It's like when they revealed The Stig on Top Gear...!!
Great review. Congrats on the 10k. Well deserved.
Thanks, thanks and thanks :-)
The whole meal looked lovely,and the views were beautiful.😊
It was a great meal in a stunning location
Incredible location stunning views the food looks mouthwatering
Fabulous huh, what holidays are all about!!
Gorgeous view ❤️❤️❤️
Ah thanks.... Oh, you meant the landscape behind me 🤣
Another great and unique look at off-grid food. The location, weather and food made you want to be there. Not somewhere we've ever considered, but that may now change. Cheers Greeno. 😉
The Dordogne is a fabulous region to explore, lots of history, you can canoe down the river and the weather is much better than home 🙂
great looking food there. Happy holidaying
Great food, matched by the vista!
Congratulations on going over 10,000 , well deserved . A great review , although I kept getting distracted by that magnificent view . I have to agree about the frites , those were standard chip shop chips , do you think they keep a batch on hand for British customers ? Steak looked great & I could almost smell the onion's 😍. Next to cassoulet , duck confit is my favourite duck dish . Shout out to the ever patient Mrs Greeno and Littleun for letting you taste their food first , must have been torture wondering if there was going to be any left🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Hope you continue to enjoy your time in France .
Thanks for the kind words 🙂 Normally when we do these reviews together we kind of share everything between us, so as soon as I am done with the few bites of the first dish and onto the second they are already munching 🙂
Wow, that salad looked fabulous
It was very interesting visually and tasted great!
@@GreenoEats Your steak was cooked to perfection too
@@catherineturner2839 takes skill to cook it that rare and not have it leaking all over the plate 🙂
Absolutely stunning location, and the food looked delicious,cheers Greeno.
One of the nicest views I have ever had to eat a meal - stunning !
What a place, great view lovely food👍, great video Greeno
That's very kind, thank you 🙂
Nice to see you in Domme, which is right down the road from my house. That duck confit should have been crispy, and the frîtes looked anemic, but apart from that you did a good sampling of our regional fare. You should have had an ice cream, though -- that's what the Belvedere is known for. Bonne route!
Ah, I just replied to your comment about the Bordeaux video, but see you already found my video in Domme :-)
Top video greeno ,looks amazing there ,enjoy my friend 🎉
It was a great lunch, and the views, well breathtaking
That all looked pretty darn good . . . And what a view . .
Till next time take care
👋NZ🇳🇿🍻twa
It was fab Roger!
What a stunning view the salad looked great but I couldn’t have eaten it in case I got some gizzards ,yes frozen chips all shapes and sizes there
As I mentioned, I would normally run a mile at the mention of gizzard, but when in Rome and all that !
What a blissful looking meal and experience!
It really was tremendous Heidi !
What a view - WOW! That food looked delicious! I love confit duck, when done properly it is so succulent. 5/5 and a Greeno Green Light is well deserved and no surprise. Thank you for a lovely video.
It was a stunning location Gary, that was the reason I picked it, just in the hope the food would be ok. And boy was it better than ok (well apart from the chips maybe) - a great lunch full of regional specialities in beautiful weather with that view, well it has to be 5/5 🙂
❤❤❤ Stunning view, great choices in food. Well done ordering from the French menu! I'd be so intimidated. Also 😂Gary's insect dinner guest😊🐝 Thank you for a wonderful meal, and review. Best to family.
Glad you enjoyed the video, and the choices we made 🙂
Love French food and that looks amazing!!!!
It really was tasty, matched by the view!
Hi Greeno 👋 never been outside of Australia 🇦🇺 These videos are so interesting and enlightening! You are so lucky to be so close to different countries❤❤
Well I guess leaving Australia means almost a long haul flight in any direction, unless you go to NZ!
@@GreenoEats yes it is quite away that's for sure from anywhere! 😅🤣❤
That food looked absolutely lovely. Thank you for a great review Greano.
I have to say, 'Littlen' is a credit to great food. Not many kids appreciate nice food like she does.
I am glad you enjoyed the review. We have Little'un well trained (eating wise at least) - her big sister not so much ha ha
What a great video enjoy ❤
Thanks, we certainly did!
That looked brilliant greeno 👍
Certainly was!
Awesome view that Greeno!! Congratulations on the 10k again mate! ✈️🤝👊 all the best ….Smithy
Spectacular wasn't it Smithy - good food, good weather and a location like that, hard to beat!
Hi Greeno Yes agree with you lovely terraced restaurant with great views.
As said before France is not one of those places that I would visit.
Well as I know nothing about french food the only part pf the meals you had would have been the Steak( Medium to well done for me) and those lovely potatoes.
I was not keen to much on the duck or that Salad.
Glad you are having a great time with your family and agree with you if Gary was there we would have had a running commentary saying how great it was,Thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed the video, even if you might not have ordered the food yourself 🙂
It's a bit of a cliche...but...The two most beautiful dishes I have ever had was when I was in the Dordogne area.
A Salade du Perigord which did have a little Foie Gras in it along with some cold smoked Magret, Walnuts, Frisee (sp?) and other stuff in a total tourist trap place (Les Jardins de Marqueyssac..But it really was amazing and good value) and a dish of fried in it's own fat Magret and Chips, this was at a little place (Le Plan d'O in Frayssinet-le-Gelat) that consisted of two sheds...One was the Bar the other the Kitchen. It was located on the shores of a lake and the tables and chairs were all mismatched plastic garden furniture...but that dish was utterly amazing!!!
Sounds like you had some good eating in the Dordogne - it's a fabulous region
Proper steak, rare, left to rest, nothing oozing out. I'm so jealous 😋
Spectacular steak cookery that !
Hi Greeno, what a beautiful location & a great video! The meal looked really good all-round. Chips a bit of a let-down though.The quality of your reviews are going from strength to strength... Really want to see your channel keep growing. Enjoy the rest of your time in France. 😊
Thanks so much for that lovely, positive feedback 🙂 I’m so glad you’re enjoying the content!
Another great review much better life style in France have had a house in Normandy for nineteen years can't wait to retire to get out there permanently
Nice, whereabouts in Normandy are you? Do you have the citizenship and everything sorted to be able to retire there? I'd love to do similar, but think I would encounter Brexit related problems... Mrs Greeno being Hungarian could of course move to France tomorrow should she wish ha ha!
Hi Greeno, that meal looked fantastic, my wife and i used to seek out places like that when we travelled in Europe before children!
Loved the look of the confit duck but even though im a butcher to trade, id like my steak under the grill for a wee bit longer!
What a great find! Nice one!👍👏👏👏♥️
It is harder when you have children - we couldn't have eaten at this place were the Greenager with us, but Little'un's an adventurous sort and will have a go at most things - even duck gizzard!!
Great video
Thanks Todd!
Wow! What an incredible view!
They could have served me Longleat food on thatterrace and I probably wouldn't have minded - fab view huh !!
Looks beautiful mate much nicer than Huddersfield,lol😂 looks like a nice place to relax have a delicious lunch .
Absolutely fantastic views .
Bon appetit, Guten appetit Jó étvágyat 😋😋😋😋Enjoy my friend cheers
Ask Mrs Greeno if Hungarian is correct lol translated from German lol
Spot on with the Hungarian ! And I am sure the views over the Yorkshire Moors can be just as spectacular :-)
Looked very good, I travelled around that area 10 years ago with a friend and it was amazing.2 years ago around Lyon was different foods! Hope it wasn't too expensive?
For the 3 main courses, plus 1 beer, a small white wine and a soft drink the bill was 67 Euros, which I don't think is excessive at all. France does have a lot of very specific regional dishes, but then it does have wildly different geography and climate which lends itself to that as different things are farmed in different areas.
It pays to know the language, I remember ordering pigeon in Caen as I recognised the word in my schoolboy French. It came on a bed of raw ox liver cut into thin strips mixed with onion, looked just like worms in a compost heap, couldn't even try it.
Oh my goodness, that must have looked like something out of a horror movie!
Nice spot but looks a tad busy with all those people! Great looking food. Thnx for sharing.😀
It was busy, we had to queue maybe 10 mins for a table. But worth it!
Steak served the correct way! You love to see it!
Bang on right !
A fantastic location you came across there Greeno. I reckon the view on it's own was worth a score of 3 and more than compensated for the average pommel frites.
Yep, properly stunning location wasn't it - the chips were a bit of a letdown, but not worth kocking half a point off when everything else was so good!
looks well yummy n decent value, but the beef was for me was way to rare for me, glad ya enjoyed it all n the views
Yeah, the steak cookery wasn't for everyone I know 🤣
Yeah, the steak cookery wasn't for everyone I know 🤣
Hiya Greeno, take it as read, that if you suffer from agoraphobia, you're not going to worry about that beautiful view. However, the food would be enough to to keep Monsieu Creosote happy. All the dishes looked like a class acts. Picky bits. Gizzards, well just not British, our fault I'm sure, but each to their own. Love Duck, but as with all the poultry and most game birds. Has to be crispy skin, well seasoned. Steak and chips, oh all right Frites😂🙄. Blue is the colour, not only for Chelsea FC, but your steak. And why not. Only other question. Who was the chip snaffler??? Good informative video. See you in the next video Allan&Family
Little'un was snaffling the chips! I didn't mind as they were the one disappointing parts of an otherwise excellent meal (plus I had eaten some of her spuds before 🤣)
If you don't like duck you are rather stuck! Springs to mind. Thanks greeno
Ha ha, there were other options but regional specialities featured very heavily on the menu!
It is loverly to see family again. Food review soon. Looks like 4 of 5 overall and looks very tasty.
They'll be popping up time to time don't you worry - don't just have to put up with my ugly mug all the time ha ha!
That looked amazing! And fair play for trying something new. On my last trip to Albania (I think I've mentioned this once before 😂) I tried meat stew. I didn't know what it was but the meat was soo good - turned out to be beef liver. Definitely taught me not to be so fussy!
Reminds me of a story of a pal of mine who worked in the oil industry. On trip to Russia his translator took him for a meal in some godforesaken town - really tastystew - turned out to be bear meat !
Limited grasp of the language here but still worked out a fair amount of that gorgeous menu. What a fabulous place to have lunch!
Spectacular wasn't it!
If you have come round to gizzard, you're surely ready for some speciality french sausage, & a step nearer sweet meats.
The other thing to remember is the constituent components of a dish of proper haggis for instance, then take it a step further into the culinary void. especially at something like a proper southern US bbq, always a good doorway into the strange stuff imho.
France is definitely the place to try stuff good n' rustic daily specials more often than not.
The French do like "nose to tail" eating - some of it a bit too much for me though!
I am curious what is in a Southern US bbq that would take you into a culinary void??
@@JanetBrown-px2jn more side dishes, but considering local USAF guys I knew here in the uk used to buy in what would be deemed oddities to us, chicken feet & the likes were available in their base supermarket, & some obscure dishes brought to general bbq socials back in the day. so maybe therefor soulfood classification? the likes of chitterlings (common in the uk till the 70's) ham hocks, done various ways, pigs feet. neck bones & rice, ..I could associate those things with some of the quainter spanish tapas I tried such as pigs ear, not forgetting that in the uk we don't tend to eat "muddy tasting" river fish, so even a fried catfish which I travelled for in the states is the type of food met with a "yuck" & viewed with suspicion, tripe once very popular over here is almost a dead market for all but pet food.
culinary =basically anything related to food , kitchen, the act of cooking, ..void =empty space, filling the void is therefore going for the rarer / unusual, likely fallen out of favour or unknown ...thus whilst the uk has come a long way many culinary foods have fallen by the wayside or are simply unknown quantities, ..thus trying something as mentioned above, is most definitely a void space to many in the uk, offal & nose to tail eating have very much fallen out of favour, ..people who will happily eat black pudding (blood sausage) when presented with it by another name would not be able to put the similarities together & simply give it a go. (sad that) ..does that offer enough clarification for you?
Love confit superb, presented beautifully if it looks good to the eye it's bound to be tasty 😊😋😋😋😋💯💯
Well you say that, but my Gordon Ramsey burger looked pretty...
@GreenoEats Ramsay Kerridge etc con men .Kerridge especially loses weight after years of overindulgence writes a book on it ££££now seems to have put some weight on again Thanks to M&S lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Respect to you on your foie gras opinion, barbaric practice. Great place with a wonderful view and the food did look appetising. Very enjoyable review, cheers 😊👍
Yep - I'll try most things, but there is a line, and foie gras is beyond it ! Glad you enjoyed the review!
Amazes me how it's still allowed.
@@willmartin4234 yep, I second that 👍
@@willmartin4234 indeed
The french love their duck ! Everything can be eaten , more or less 😅 . Have fun 😊
Yes, the French are good at "nose to tail" eating
What a wonderful place to eat, apart from the pesky 🐝 ! Food looked delicious, I think I would have tried the steak first, then the confit duck then left the cold salad until last. Does Mrs Greeno & littl’un like their steak as rare as that, or was it always intended mostly for you ? Great vlog Greeno
Mrs Greeno doesn't eat steak, Little'un eats it however, she's not fussy ha ha!!
@@GreenoEats perfect combo then 😀
What a wonderful view ❤ I think I would use a Translation app, would not be brave enough 😂😂😂😂
Googke translate is my friend too Jessi :-)
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The wasp is extra protein added reckon the resteraunt charges extra 😂😂
Oh yeah, they'd claim it was a regional speciality and charge me 10 Euros !!
I do love a good salad. Duck is my favourite, a huge salad. . If it's on the menu, I tend to have it. We have cofiet of duck here at home cooked in its own fats in the slow cooker and its wonderful.
Mrs Greeno is the same, I sometimes find it a bit rich, and not cooked well. But here as a regional speciality I knew they'd have thecooking on point. Would you have eaten it with the gizzard listed on the menu?
My ex ordered andoulette in Dijon
It’s meat served in an intestine of a cow
I saw it was on your menu
I’d definitely avoid - I can’t describe the smell & taste of it on here !
Yeah, Andouilette is certainly an acquired taste, and not one I care to acquire!
Looked delicious Greeno 👍
Shame about the chips but the steak looked spot on.
I think what we call offal is making something of a comeback, which is good. My gran flavoured her delicious chicken soup with that and the rest of the carcass.
The soup my Mother-in-law makes has all sorts in it - it's a thin broth / stock, but had gizzard, pork, chicken, kohlrabi and a variety of other things. Makes a very tasty soup though!
From the title I assumed you were trying snails or frogs legs?(which I've had and were nice)
What you had looked nice pal.👍🏻
Gizzard is weirder than snails or frogs legs in my book! I have also had both on previous trips - snails I am a bit meh about, mostly because I find the garlic a bit much they're normally served with. I did once have them in Nice though with feta cheese, and that was yummy!
It’s RAW!
You spelled RARE wrong 🤣 Only kidding, I know that many people would want their steak more cooked than that.
That salad is mammoth! 😲 Not sure about the gizzards though 🤢
It may be a salad but it would be nice for the duck to be warmed through - its flavour would have come to life 🫤 Then it would have been really tasty! 😋
Steak chips and salad - always a winner! 👍 Shame chips weren’t thrice cooked - then you would be talking! 😋
This was a fab lunch, in possibly one of the most spectacular locations I’ve been lucky enough to eat in. I have to say the gizzards were a bit of a challenge mentally, but that whole thing tasted great.
Frozen chips? they have the brass neck to call us LA ROAST BEEF
Ha ha!
The food looked stunning (even the live cow). Lol.
Beautiful food, in a beautiful location - great weather to boot - perfect!
Looked fantastic!
Thanks Peter, really enjoyed my meal
Am i the only person on this planet that likes well done steak. Enjoyed the review 👍
No, there are plenty of other folk just as wrong as you (haha, ony kidding!!)
Don’t order steak, there’s always salmon on a menu.
That meal was calling out for a good bottle of French wine. 😋
If I hadn't have been driving !
Did you have the Rolls or Aston DB5 that day? 😊
@@fv1291 Ha ha - the Greeno Eats budget sadly doesn't stretch to either!
@@GreenoEatsI think Gary has a chauffeur, shhhh...😂
Haha when you copped that wasp with your knife I thought it was gonna be like a Mr Miyagi moment 😂
Had to look up the 'gizzard' word. Seems to be what we call the stomach over here. (l'estomac in french to keep it in the France theme).
I think the gizzard is kind of a pre-stomach, used to process more difficult to digest items before they head to the stomach. Doesn't make it sound that appealing to eat does it lol
@@GreenoEats I've grown up with chickens and rabbits in the yard at home. Often helped my dad to butcher and prepare them for roasting. The main stomach is if I'm right what you call the 'gizard' . (the prestomach in chickens and ducks is sort of part of the intestines). When butchering the animals we removed all intestines and we took out stomach, heart and liver to cook with the rest of the animal. Stomach got cut in half to remove the internal sac/membrane and cleaned/ further on gallbladder got to be removed from the liver without breaking the membrane.
Duck isn’t my favourite but I’d have tried it all. No point in visiting a different country without trying the local dishes. I think the confit duck would be my favourite. Never had great chips abroad, sadly everywhere seems to use frozen ones nowadays.
We ate in a burger joint in La Rochelle, and they had proper fries, cooked in duck fat I think - shame I wasn't filming !
I agree with you on foie gras, it is unspeakably cruel and tastes like butter that sat beside a steak for 20 seconds. I honestly don't know what the French see in it, considering everything else they eat is absolutely incredible. How I wish I was in your shoes today. Amazing. One critique: I would not be driving and that beer would be a large red wine.
Even though Mrs Greeno is Hungarian, and learned to drive on the right hand side of the road, she now refuses to do so. All the driving falls to me unfortunately.
Absolute cast iron Greeno Green Light!
Yep, Le Creuset cast iron at that !
Hi my friend Greeno.
Not a fan of France.
Thank you for the video.
See you soon.
ANN IN CUMBRIA.XX. 😊😊
Oh France is fabulous Ann, so much great food, scenery, history (plus the weather is better than home!)
If you get chance on your break try Andouillette I would love your opinion
I have tried it before. I am unlikely to try it again lol !!
I have to admit I prefer my steak a little bit more medium. You can't beat the view however. I would give it 4 out of 5. Excellent review!
Really special location wsn't it. I know the steak cookery wouldn't be for everyone, but the skill to cook it that way and not having it leak everywhere is impressive!
@@GreenoEats Yes I agree!
Beautiful, did you try the frogs legs yet??
Not on this trip !
Great venue to eat. Glad you tried something French...... I'm bored of watching so called reviewers reviewing crappy processed food abroad......
I once enjoyed a horse rump steak. Didn't know at the time, but it was so good, I have eaten horse a few times. Frois Gras is right up my street and the farming of it very conscious its poor history.
A good blue to very rare steak I'd describe that.
At the end of the day, given the location and view, a bag of crisps and a pint of lager would be great!
Yep, they could have served me the Longleat food on that terrace and I'd have eaten it !
vivre la belle vie !!! Enjoy, enjoy !!!
Merci beaucoup!
Rare in the UK is blue in France...they just walk it past the oven…I love rare steak but the UK rare 😂 whole meal looked delicious 😋
Yeah, even as a rare steak lover I will often order a medium steak in France🙂
Looks amazing, yeah chips standard.
It was all great, apart from the chips, which was a shame... they could have had some lovely homemade frites, cooked in duck fat couldn't they.
You could slap that steak and bring it back to life!!
Fois Gras is a delicacy that only a few deserve....YUM
Fricassee du chat entir? On the menu in a Parisian restaurant it's usually disguised as a lamb dish.¹
¹ you might think I am making it up 😐 unfortunately there is a bit of historic fact there ... but you don't want to hear about the old well behind a restaurant in Paris and what were found in it
Hopefully it wasn't anything like that !
@@GreenoEats cat skeletons. Mostly skulls. Out 'round the back of a once popular lamb restaurant.
Try *waterkonijn* in Belgium; sort of a delicacy that few Belgian restaurant (well, Flemish) serve.
And nobody serves *dakhaas* in the Netherlands (old people in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Utrecht are familiar with the term). Know my maternal grandfather ... hmmmh ... 'obtained' dakhaas at least once. In Rotterdam.
Great video. You are just getting going but I already prefer your reports to Gary's. Surprised that you both have a problem with mushrooms.
That's kind of you to say so. Myself, Gary and Beard Meats Food, quite the club 🤣
Like my steak welldone! A very scenic review ❤
My steak was well cooked, just not well done haha
@@GreenoEats lol 😆 😂 each to their own
Cannot belive that people are allowed to smoke in an eating area
It’s not that uncommon in Mainland Europe, just seems strange to us in the UK now after 15 years or so of the smoking ban
I kept rewinding for the view, very envious, my Mrs. wont get a passport, so my foreign travel is over! Oh! the food, looked lovely, that steak was almost blue, love it like that! My IG message is still there, under my real name, ask Gary, lol!
You can always go on your own :-) I will check the IG :-)
@@GreenoEats Circumstances with the Mrs. don't allow that unfortunately!
The wasp got a six from greeno
Ha ha, decent little reverse sweep that!