Restaurant Review | Le France

Location | Place de la Loge  66000 Perpignan, France

Somehow, I decided we should go to Perpignan. Primarily because Aer Lingus had a cheap flight there back to Dublin.  It's a decent-sized town very close to the border with Spain. It is in the Catalan region, so there's a lot of Catalan pride. However, no one really speaks Catalan. And unfortunately, no one spoke Spanish either, so we were still stuck with pointing to menu items and saying s'il vous plait. Le France was around the corner from our hotel, so we decided to hang out there to have some drinks and tapas. This is the place we became addicted to chorizo iberico.

I was drinking wine because Perpignan is quite the little wine region. The Old Man set out to have all the beers on the menu. (There were only six.) He really liked the Pelforth. (He gave it a thumbs up as you can see.) And it was only 2€, so he was very happy.

The Picon was entirely too sweet for his taste. I had to finish it for him, but thought it was delicious. I wonder if there's a similar beer in the States. The closest thing I can think of is Abita Harvest Pecan, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was something even more similar.

We had serrano ham pizza, Spanish olives, tapas, wine and beer at Le France. It hit the spot. We weren't looking for anything gourmet. If the weather is nice, there is outdoor seating and it'd be fun to people watch in the square. We didn't have time to people watch though. We were too focused on the deep-fried chorizo. Yum!