Surprisingly subsequently our massive breakfast, a twosome of hours exploring Rocamadour left us famished, too thus nosotros gladly headed off on our adjacent terminate on our tour of the Dordogne Valley: Château de la Treyne, a beautiful château build upward high on the banks of the Dordogne river total of beautiful bedrooms, stately drawing rooms too in all likelihood the nearly beautiful dining room I've always had the privilege to savour a repast in.
The amuse-bouche came inwards the bird of a chilled greenish pea velouté, topped amongst a quenelle of truffle included chantilly cream too topped amongst a fragile pea shoot. It played on your green perceptions: the cream unremarkably used inwards desserts was savoury, too the soup was wonderfully too naturally sweetness from the peas. While I could convey eaten a whole bowlful (it was honestly i of the best soups I've always tasted), it was exactly the correct amount to larn us excited for the adjacent course.
Next nosotros had a deconstructed fried egg (the yolk was intact too runny, too the yolk had been laid too aerated amongst cream), topped amongst fresh local asparagus, gingerbread crumbs too a bird of morel marmalade. Everything was too thus fresh too total of their ain flavours, spell nonetheless existence inwards a genuinely imaginative, deconstructed dish. It was already shaping upward to my my other absolute favourite repast from the trip.
If possible, our adjacent dish was fifty-fifty improve than the adjacent two. Beautifully cooked, glazed too seared duck breast, seasonal carmine wood berries, daikon radish pickled inwards to a greater extent than or less split of berry vinegar too a strip of nougat were finished at the tabular array amongst a generous amount of duck too berry jus. You'd facial expression everything on the plate to live on served amongst the duck, fifty-fifty the pickles, except for the nougat, but it genuinely was the nearly amazing too unexpected combination. It added honey, too a dissimilar type of sweetness to the duck too the fruits. Everything on the plate had its ain flavour too purpose, correct downwards the the delicately positioned micro herbs.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pocket-sized sweetness arrived next, getting us laid for our dessert proper. Here nosotros convey a chocolate truffle (with a hidden mango cream core), sealed amongst a nutty slice of brittle too served amongst a few dabs of mango coulis.
Our dessert genuinely was what y'all tin laissez passer the sack genuinely telephone band a exhibit stopper. Crispy opaline cylinders held layers of strawberry cream, compote, too plume low-cal sponge, topped off amongst a champagne jelly too spears of fresh, local strawberry. The whole affair sat on a strip of dense fruit jelly amongst a quenelle of intensely flavoured summertime fruit sorbet on the side. And doesn't it but exactly facial expression genuinely impressive?
The Sun had come upward out past times the fourth dimension nosotros headed dorsum out onto the terrace for java too petit fours: a shot of mango coulis, mango cream amongst ginger cake pieces, too an intensely flavoured slice of tiny caramel nut tart. It was the perfect agency to circular of a frankly stand upward out meal, too to reverberate on the fact I needed to earmark Château de la Treyne for to a greater extent than or less other visit; sadly nosotros did non larn the endangerment to explore whatsoever of the bedrooms or the stately gardens.
Château de la Treyne is opened upward every eve for dinner amongst laid menus at 96€ (£75) or 130€ (£100) per person, too for luncheon on Saturdays, Sundays too Mondays amongst laid menus starting at 48€ (£38) per person. Rooms are genuinely pretty reasonable too, starting at €200 (£160) per person, or 442€ (£350) for the 2 of y'all amongst breakfast too dinner included.
Château de la Treyne is opened upward every eve for dinner amongst laid menus at 96€ (£75) or 130€ (£100) per person, too for luncheon on Saturdays, Sundays too Mondays amongst laid menus starting at 48€ (£38) per person. Rooms are genuinely pretty reasonable too, starting at €200 (£160) per person, or 442€ (£350) for the 2 of y'all amongst breakfast too dinner included.
I was a invitee inwards the Dordogne Valley of Brive too Bergerac Airports too the local tourism boards. Thank y'all to Chateau de la Treyne for their hospitality.