Creperie Montes - La Couvertoirade

We ended up in this creperie by chance but they were quite frankly the best creperie we've ever eaten in! Staff were helpful, explaining to the children what the various farm implements were on the walls. The decor is just stunning and excellent value for money too!

Right in the heart of the beautiful, unspoiled walled Knight Templar village of La Couvertoirade this creperie is housed in the ground floor of a traditional Larzac farm building, low stone arched roof, low ceilings, no windows. It has a varied display of local rural artefacts, from a stuffed badger to a malt shovel. Note the several items that look like small lightweight toboggans. What are they and what are they for? (I know, I am simply trying to give you some conversion topics for your meal.) There are also some outside tables in the pathway that runs through the village. One of the great things about this place is that inside the walls there is no traffic and kids are free to rush around and given the village consists of stone walls stone roads and paths and stone houses there is very little they can damage (except themselves).The menu offers a range of crepes, savoury and sweet. My favourite is the complet, cheese ham and an egg. They have also recently started offering burgers. These are really very good, nice minced local beef in a bun made of real bread, not the recycled paper you usually get around burgers. The meat is cooked slightly pink (as you would expect in France) and with crisps and quite a lot of nicely dressed lettuce they are excellent. They offer several styles, including one with honey (uggggh),! one with Roquefort cheese sauce (very local and authentic but so salty and strongly flavoured that it swamps everything else.) They also offer a veggie burger (not tried.) The crepes are fine as crepes go, but it is an inherently limited cuisine (in my view) although very popular with some especially the younger ones. It also makes a change from the prevailing local menus. There is the usual range of drinks, hot and cold, soft and alcoholic, we usually have their very good bottled Normandy cider.As the menu is relatively simple the food comes fairly quickly.One or two downsides, there are often a lot of flies, endemic in this area in the summer, and the service while reasonably efficient is mechanical and unsmiling. Because the crepes are cooked fresh to order on a limited number of hotplates, you do not get all your order at once, it comes over time. With some smaller children this can be problematic. You couldn’t call it cheap but considering it’s right in the middle of a prime tourist site the prices are probably about fair.

The crepes are absolutely delicious the way they make them here. There's a little bit of a crunch to them. Not a huge selection of crepes, but our group of four enjoyed their dinner and dessert crepes very much!

We were a group of 8 friends visiting the town. We decided le Creperie because it is sth typical from La France.Sincerely, crepes were excellent. The problem was the service, because it was too slow and chaotically organized. The first crepe arrived 20 min before the last one. So you can imagine the face of the last person. This situation happened with deserts also, that were served 1h later once the last person finished the main course.So summarizing, I would not recommend absolutely this restaurant to big groups (>4), because all the other tables were attended before despite arriving later. It is a good place to go with very small groups, or just to take the crepe and take it away.Alex