La Ciboulette - Noyant-de-Touraine

La Cioulette is conveniently located at the exit roundabout from the autoroute. We had set menus and the food was excellent eg. Asparagus mouse for starter, fillet of beef for main and a choice of cheeses or desert. Watch out however, as when the bill...came it had 3 separate taxes, VAT, food tax and alcohol tax. So the set menu price of 34 euros is not the final price you pay.

We hesitated entering the restaurant with the empty car park and the dead shrubs which greet(! you on arrival. Well we should have turned around and left. I am vegetarian, while my partner is not, and so when the server sort of intimated that vegetarians...are difficult to cater for , we should have gone . Only two tables occupied, on a saturday , the decor needing a refresh and the food lacking imagination and especially taste, though the dessert was good . We shall not be coming back.

Why so many things on the plate?! Each dish seemed to be complicated, with additional pages that do not belong to make the dish full, but the dish less delicious or appealing. Too bad. 6/10

Not many good restaurants in this area. That's one of them. Great menu. Nicely presented. Great food. Would recommend.

We were in a castle on the street and that made a big change. This little jewel was so inconceivable from the outside and then it is fully blown tablecloths and fine food! Very attentive staff, food from this world, felt like I had been in London or Paris, for a little from the beaten track restaurant it was amazing. Very recommended. Do not go if you have a simple pallet or expect to see chips!