Being in Narbonon, you can feel all the delights of French cuisine with a Mediterranean accent. The proximity to the Mediterranean Sea (in fact, its coastal location) and Spain led a number of features characteristic of the kitchen of this region. On the table in Narbonone, you can often see not only salads, all kinds of snacks and classic French main dishes, but also the famous Spanish Palelia, Buyabes fish soup, Spanish sausages and so on. Very fond of the people of the Narbon, especially on weekends, make the grill. And on the lattices you can see not only pieces of appetizing meat, but also the young scumbers and sardines, which here are considered a real delicacy. And although I always quite skeptically treated this type of fish, it turns out something incredible here. First, the taste of young, fresh mackerel or sardine is sharply different from us, frozen. And secondly, after frying, they acquire amazing softness and aroma. Therefore, you should not be surprised, having heard the fish smell coming from the barbecue.
In addition to Mackerel and Sardin, most popular among residents and guests of the city, especially in the summer, dorada and tuna are used, as well as all sorts of sea delicacies. If you arrived on Narbon's holidays in the summer months, be sure to buy freshly lined oysters or mussels on the market, which can be eaten with raw, watering lemon juice and drinking wine, or fry. And of course you should not miss the opportunity to try crab, lobster or languste. You can buy them or on the market, or in one of the hypermarkets, for example, in Carrefour. The price of them is quite acceptable, so you can afford a couple of times.
From meat products, it is necessary to try dried sausages made according to the sample of Spanish. True, buy them better in the market, they are tastier there. They can be from different meat (pork, cabanin, beef and so on) and with various additives (dried olives, mushrooms, nuts). As a rule, traders offer to choose several sausage sausages for a certain amount (for example, 3 for 10 or 6 for 15). In addition, it is simply necessary to try olives sold in barrels, pickled with different spices and herbs. Their taste is so different from the usual canned, which is just wonder how different they are. So, you can try black, green or pink olives, olives with garlic, with a basil, with pepper, with olive herbs and the like. You can also try classic Mediterranean pesto (pasta from green olives with basil) and tapenad (pasta from black olives with the addition of spices, anchovs and sometimes nuts). They can be smeared to toast or eat with something.
Naturally, it is impossible to present France without wine. Especially if we consider how many vineyards are growing around the Narbon. Wine can be purchased as a factory purchased in the supermarket, and go to his search for a specialized wine shop or to drive at all from Kav (to one of the vineyards), where the strips are arranged right at the road and sell their wine. It is no worse than the store, but often and tastier, and pleases the variety of tastes. By the way, although in stores the price of a bottle of wine begins from 1.5 euros, the French themselves consider a good one that costs from 4-5 euros and higher. The cheaper and more profitable will buy wine in wine shops, where it is sold at once a few liters.
It is impossible not to mention the local pastries. Private bakeries begin to work very early, so already at 7 - 8 in the morning you can buy delicious baguettes or croissants in one of the bakery (their taste is simply indescribable), as well as all sorts of cakes, and the most popular lungs, with jelly, fruit and cottage cheese.
As for restaurants and cafes of Narbon, there is a fairly large selection of such institutions. Prices for resort town Although not low, but fairly acceptable. In addition, dinner or dinner can be arranged only in the city itself, but also in one of his coastal suburbs - Grussan, Narbonne-Beach or San Piero. Most popular, especially in the height of the tourist season, use so-called buffets, in which you can get either a buffet for a certain amount, or choose the most popular set of snacks, main dishes and dessert. For the wine, as a rule, you have to pay separately.
If we talk about specific institutions, then most of them, of course, in the city center. Right at the Town Hall, there are several cozy restaurants and a cafe, and walking along the canal, you can see a lot of coffee shops, where they love to spend the locals in the cup and reading the newspaper. In principle, you can go to any institution you like, as the level of service and the quality of the dishes are high enough. The level of prices is more or less, in my opinion, about the same (more or less), there is more that most cafes and restaurants exhibit stands from the menu on the street.
There is another zone with restaurants and entertainment facilities in the shopping area in the field of Perpignan Street (not far from the stores "Lidl", "Leader Price" and "Grand Frais"). Here you can find a restaurant of Asian cuisine Gourmand d`asie. (ul. forms Sud), working on the principle of a buffet and offering a variety of national dishes in a rather calm and cozy atmosphere.
Also nearby La Pataterie. offering feedstocks, as well as local fast food and lunch complexes for 8.95 and 10.95 euros.
Right on Perpignan Street, almost opposite the above-mentioned institutions, is a grill restaurant Grill Coiurte Paille, Offering satisfying snacks and main dishes, as well as a special children's menu at reasonable prices (snacks from 4.5 euros, main dishes - from 10 to 40). Naturally, the emphasis in this restaurant is done on meat and precisely on the grill.
Not bad is I. Les Grands Buffets. At Espace de Liberté, offering classic French dishes and delicacies and its own culinary inventions. Based on the title, it is logical that the restaurant also works on the bobbin principle (the wine is ordered separately), and I want to say that it enjoys, despite the location quite popular with the center. The most popular and favorite snacks included in the price of the order are undoubtedly fua-gras, baked piglets and diversified cheeses.