Guidebook for Montaigu-de-Quercy
Food Scene
Just around the corner, fantastic for baguettes, croques monsieurs, gateaux, so so handy and so so good.
15 locals recommend
Montaigu-de-Quercy
Just around the corner, fantastic for baguettes, croques monsieurs, gateaux, so so handy and so so good.
A typically French bar and an excellent restaurant, lovely to sit outside of when the sun is out. Very good value for lunch too.
Hôtel Restaurant le Midi
Rue du QuercyA typically French bar and an excellent restaurant, lovely to sit outside of when the sun is out. Very good value for lunch too.
Another lovely bastide town to visit, on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostella in Spain, pilgrims are often seen.
56 locals recommend
Lauzerte
Another lovely bastide town to visit, on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostella in Spain, pilgrims are often seen.
This incredibly friendly Moroccan restaurant serves large portions of great couscous and tagines (meat and vegetable stews with a spicy harissa sauce), plus kebabs or steak and chips. All very simple but very good value.
Le Délice
87 Av. du StadeThis incredibly friendly Moroccan restaurant serves large portions of great couscous and tagines (meat and vegetable stews with a spicy harissa sauce), plus kebabs or steak and chips. All very simple but very good value.
Just a short drive from Montaigu, this is an exceptional although quite expensive chateau-type restaurant and hotel, good for romantic dinners. There's also a specialist wine bar, now Le Bistrot de Stephanie, offering a table d'hotes in the evenings except Sundays and with a happy hour on Thursdays.
Chateau de l'Hoste
Just a short drive from Montaigu, this is an exceptional although quite expensive chateau-type restaurant and hotel, good for romantic dinners. There's also a specialist wine bar, now Le Bistrot de Stephanie, offering a table d'hotes in the evenings except Sundays and with a happy hour on Thursdays.
Parks & Nature
A fabulous place to walk around, sunbathe on the lovely beach, and swim. A great little restaurant overlooking the beach plus a snack bar La Cabane with good evening tapas at the camper end and other facilities including pedalos are available in season.
8 locals recommend
Montaigu Plage
1106 chemin de Réveille HautA fabulous place to walk around, sunbathe on the lovely beach, and swim. A great little restaurant overlooking the beach plus a snack bar La Cabane with good evening tapas at the camper end and other facilities including pedalos are available in season.
Everything Else
A great tourist city, good for eating, shopping, wine, with a 13th century bridge over the beautiful river Lot. It also has a really excellent small museum about the French resistance, though it helps if you speak some French there.
224 locals recommend
Cahors
A great tourist city, good for eating, shopping, wine, with a 13th century bridge over the beautiful river Lot. It also has a really excellent small museum about the French resistance, though it helps if you speak some French there.
A small bastide town close by with a couple of antique shops and fantastic views of the area helped by stone compass guides. It has a very good flower festival at the beginning of May.
17 locals recommend
Tournon-d'Agenais
A small bastide town close by with a couple of antique shops and fantastic views of the area helped by stone compass guides. It has a very good flower festival at the beginning of May.
Arts & Culture
Fantastic art gallery, unexpected, including four Titians, and featuring the great Roman history of the city, which is also good for shopping and the lovely river Garonne.
64 locals recommend
Agen
Fantastic art gallery, unexpected, including four Titians, and featuring the great Roman history of the city, which is also good for shopping and the lovely river Garonne.
A lovely historical town, a former Richard the Lionheart stronghold on the frontline during the wars against the Count of Toulouse in the 13th century. Restaurants, antique shops etc.
45 locals recommend
Penne-d'Agenais
A lovely historical town, a former Richard the Lionheart stronghold on the frontline during the wars against the Count of Toulouse in the 13th century. Restaurants, antique shops etc.
Sightseeing
An amazing place to go on a Sunday mornings as it has the liveliest tourist and food market and the bars and restaurants are heaving.
50 locals recommend
Montcuq
An amazing place to go on a Sunday mornings as it has the liveliest tourist and food market and the bars and restaurants are heaving.
Essentials
There's a small Intermarche in Montaigu itself, and some DIY places, but for good supermarkets and superstores, head towards Fumel.
15 locals recommend
Fumel
There's a small Intermarche in Montaigu itself, and some DIY places, but for good supermarkets and superstores, head towards Fumel.