Le Rendez-vous des Gourmets

A country restaurant in the Loire valley that takes game season seriously, the kind of place where hare, venison, and wild boar cycle through the menu as a matter of course rather than novelty. The cooking is deeply traditional French, the sort of menu that makes you feel terrines and braised meats never went anywhere. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which in a region this well-fed is not nothing.

One honor, in evidence: