Boulangerie Patisserie La Tour

Lovely home made baguette sandwiches with really good ingredients....lettuce, sun-dried tomatoes, fig, Roquefort, nuts, air-dried ham...delicious. Fantastic cakes too...and for once they taste as good as they look!!!

Do not enter if on a diet! This place has a great range of patisserie and breads all made by the owners. There is a also a good range of very generously filled baguettes, made to order when you arrive, salads, and a fixed main course at lunchtime on weekdays, such as lasagne or traditionally made sausages with a baked potato. Do bear in mind that lunch in France starts early! You can eat from about 11.45am, if you feel like it, but if you want a hot meal and are going to arrive at say 1pm or later then it´s best to call them and reserve your portion. They will happily do this, the staff are extremely nice, though I haven´t tested their English speaking abilities. You can eat either inside or out but there aren´t a huge number of seats so in peak season you might have to make do with the grass. The coffee is great here too, and there is a menu of numerous types of tea as well as a range of soft drinks. Beside the bakery is a well stocked wine store so there is basically all you need here to make a great picnic if you want to head for the Cevennes, the Grotte des Demoiselles, or even climb the Pic St Loup. Whilst this bakery is right beside the roundabout, and hence has plenty of parking, there is another branch of La Tour in the main village square. The latter doesn´t do meals or tea/coffee but you can still pick up filled baguettes, quiches, and pizza slices as well as patisserie, breads and chocolate. The roundabout branch is closed on Sundays in winter but the village shop is open in the morning and then again from about 4.30pm.

What a neat little find! After leaving the Grotte des Demoiselles (which was closed for lunch!! we wandered through several small towns looking for a place to have a simple lunch. Though a number of places say they have sandwiches, all seemed to be out when we walked up. At least until we found this superb Boulangerie located just off a roundabout in Saint-Martin Des Londres. This place was fabulous! They had the usual bread items, but also had wonderful pastries, and really unique sandwiches. Some they prepared for you while others had the sandwich material in long narrow trays sitting in a display case where you could pick whatever looked good. With lots of easy parking/access and indoor/outdoor seating, there were lots of locals dropping by for this and that. If you're passing through this area, you should really try this great lunch location. Cheers!

Always fresh and quality products, efficient and friendly. Parking

Salads are too good and super welcome We can even eat outside.