Auberge du Vieux Puits - Fontjoncouse

Amazing family lunch!!!! Perfect service, local creative and perfect meals and great wines! The best restaurant in the world!! Everything was perfect and full of surprises! I will not hesitate to come as soon as I have the opportunity!!!

It 's a great experience to eat at the Auberge, lovely atmosphere. The staff are lovely, put you at ease, and quite a few speak English. We were very pleased to meet Gilles Goujon who came to talk to us before the meal. Charming man. There was no a la carte menu, we had a choice of two set ones with five or six courses . But when I booked they asked if there were things we don 't or can 't eat, so the menu was adapted for us. We ate at a nice pace and four hours flew past. We loved the oyster with its 'pearl ' and the razor clam 'sandwich ', plus the other fish dishes and the drama of how they were all served. The cheese 'chariot ' is huge, over six feet long and multi-layered and it takes two people to bring it to your table. Part of their philosophy is to buy local, so a lot of the cheeses were from the Aude department and nothing was from outside Occitanie. Superb lunch, we hope to be back soon,

Sometimes a good hotel can rescue a holiday and after a day of monsoon like conditions in 'sunny' Languedoc we were certainly hoping this would be the case

Was happy to try the best restaurant in the region. Service was below the quality of the kitchen, which was a disapointment.

The joy that came with the anticipation to have lunch here bode well. 3 stars are worth a journey and indeed that is absolutely true with restaurant le vieux puits. The building and its premises are far from spectacular. Tucked away in the centre of Fontjoncouse we were welcomed to have a drink on the terrace wich is adjacent to the parking lot. The wine list is impressive but - oops - orangina and coke zero are not in the house. The dining room is large and the seating is great. The knife for the main dish sticks in the table (never saw that before). We took the lunch option and were positively surprised! Highlights? The glucose balloon filled with smoke that accompanied the oyster, the nice eadible box that contained prepared vegetables, the apple mesh that came with the mains.....The service is - apart from a coffee spoon falling and a mussel shell dropping off the plate when picking it up - impecabble as you might expect from this type of restaurant.