Feasting at Les Corsaires
A group of 5 of us caught the train for Villefranche from Nice. After a quick look round the 14th Century little Church of St Peter, whose walls and ceiling were magnificently adorned by Jean Cocteau in the 1950s, we went for lunch to Les Corsaires, where I often go. This time I ordered the tapas selection called Les Sirenes. It was very good, though the mixture was curious. There was tandoori chicken, fried squid rings, tomatoes with mozzarella, corn chips and a hot dip. There were things that looked like sausages but had potato in them, and the prize went to the chorizo deep-fried in batter. That was really yummy.
Of the other dishes, I thought the winner was the duck with gnocchi. The duck, cooked pink, was superbly tasty, and the gnocchi were cooked just right and full of flavour. There were desserts to follow, but more about those later. We drank the house rose wine with the food, and found it was as good as we remembered…