In Mosnes, a few minutes from Amboise, Le Pied dans le Plat sets its tables in a cave carved into the rock around 400 years ago. The cave restaurant combines this historic setting with homemade cuisine that changes with fresh produce and the seasons.
The speciality: wood-fired cooking
The menu is not fixed: the restaurant uses a regularly updated chalkboard menu. Its signature dishes include skewers cooked in the fireplace and other cuts of meat grilled over a wood fire, a cooking method particularly in keeping with the cave setting.
Cave or terrace
You can eat indoors in the cave space or, in fine weather, on the sunny terrace. The contrast lets you choose between the coolness of the rock and lunch outside, depending on the season.
Before you visit
There is private parking opposite the restaurant. Le Pied dans le Plat is closed on Monday and Tuesday; on other days, service days and hours vary between lunch and dinner.
What makes the difference here is the harmony between the place and the cuisine: a centuries-old cave, a fireplace and wood-fired grills rather than simply a cave-themed setting.
