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A week before Christmas 2011 my husband and I decided to treat ourselves to lunch, something we do not do very often.  Restaurants in the Lot-et-Garonne, SW France tend to serve the same menus, which can be quite boring.  We fancied a change and the other half was craving a home made burger.  Yes I know we live in South West France, French cuisine and all that, but after living in the States for 7 years he did not want to eat a processed burger at McDonalds!  I had searched the internet several months before and found Harveys Restaurant & Bar on Facebook.  Voila, they served a Harveys Burger!

The restaurant is a good 90 minute drive from us, but we have clients who live in Margueron just 20 minutes away so we decided that the next time we visited the property we would make a reservation at Harveys and ask if the Harveys burger would be available on the menu and it was.  We booked a table for Thursday 22nd December and waited in anticipation ….

Peter & Tracey Robshaw - Proprietors

We arrived at Harveys Restaurant at 12:30pm.  No problem with parking the car as they have free parking front and rear of the restaurant.  As soon as we walked through the door, Tracey Robshaw, host and owner gave us a wonderful greeting and showed us to our table in the quaint dining area which has a lovely old wood burner situated in the corner of the restaurant.  The restaurant comfortably seats 30 people inside with a new addition of the outside terrace area seating another 30 people.

Harveys Restaurant chef and owner Peter Robshaw prides himself in offering fresh, locally bought produce and meals cooked to order.  The beef they serve is Argentinian and they change the 4 course Menu du Jour on a daily basis.

The “other half” ordered the Harveys Burger and strawberry tart for dessert and I ordered the menu du jour – why not I don’t do it every day and at fantastic value of 12€50!  The soup of the day was home made vegetable with spicy sausage, I then had the leek tart followed by the pasta with wild mushrooms and lemon tart.  Yummy scrummy it was indeed and the hubby was ecstatic with his burger!  All fresh, home made and cooked to order – a rarity these days at these kind of prices!!

Peter the chef made an appearance at the end of service and introduced himself to all the diners including ourselves.  We had a long chat with both Tracey and Peter about the restaurant and cannot wait to visit them again in February for my husband’s birthday treat.

The restaurant is currently closed for refurbishment until 29th January 2012, but will open for a special Burns Night Dinner on Wednesday 25th January 2012 at 7.30pm.  Harveys will be offering a 5 course menu at 20€ per person.  Burns Night menu below.


Potage Maison
******
Saumon Fume oeuf ecossais et salade
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Haggis (Panse de brebis farcie) , Neeps et Tatties (puree de navets et puree de pommes de terre) et
jus de Whisky
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Fromage
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Cranachan (dessert prepare avec la semoule d’avoine,de la creme et des Framboises)
20€

  • Tracey and Peter Robshaw, host and chef of Harveys Restaurant & Bar speak English and French and have owned Harveys since 14th July 2009
  • Small family run restaurant serving modern European cuisine
  • L’Assiette de Pays, Bureaux of tourism and MOPA – This is an acolade awarded to restaurants for their plate of the region.  On the plate of the region, all on one plate, the primary ingredients must be sourced locally.  Harveys are 1 of 102 restaurants in the whole of the Aquitaine and the only non French at the moment!
  • Restaurant is open for lunch Monday to Friday between 12pm and 2pm
  • From April the restaurant will be serving Brunch on Saturday between 11am and 4pm
  • Wednesday and Thursday evening opening during the Summer
  • Interior dining room caters for 30 diners and outside terrace dining area caters for 30 diners
  • Private bookings/functions available at the restaurant and outside catering available outside restaurant hours – Holds a full licence
  • Menu du jour changes daily, starting menu 12€50, a la Carte, L’Assiette de Pays
  • Free access to wifi
  • Disable access to dining room and terrace
  • Free parking front and rear of restaurant
  • Telephone: 0553 579424
  • Email: Bookings@harveys.fr
  • Address: Tete Noire, 24230 Montcaret
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Tel: 0553 579424