Food

Famous for its Tuesday morning winter truffle market, the Lot offers numerous delicacies and, accordingly, restaurants offering mouthwatering menus where you can savour them. Truffles, foie gras, walnuts, the local goats cheese 'cabecou' take your pick and don't forget to wash it all down with one of the fabulous local wines.

In Cahors you are spoilt for choice, click here for a list of restaurants - try the 'Vieille Auberge' and its mouthwatering menu or the 'Balandre' known as the best restaurant in Cahors.

Just ten minutes from 'Le Mas des Cyprès' you'll find the reasonably priced Auberge Rustica. Travel 10 minutes along the Lot valley and you will find the popular 'La Truite Dorée'. This riverside hotel and restaurant with its wide menu is popular with locals and visitors alike.

Just twenty minutes away in the Célé valley you will find the riverside Hotel des Grottes.

Venture a little further and you will gasp in wonder at the magnificent village of St Cirq Lapopie built high up into the cliffs. Here you will find the amazing 'Le Gourmet Quercynois' restaurant where advance booking is a must.

For further information please see the Lot Tourism site site which gives full information on restaurants in the Lot region.

Wine

Famous for it's vineyards since the sixteenth century, the Lot valley offers some outstanding red and rosé wines. Spend a day driving through the numerous vineyards, stopping off to visit some beautiful chateaux and their cellars where you can sample some of the magnificent 'black' Cahors wines. Try the famous 'Château Lagrezette'.

Alternatively peruse the local wines at your leisure in one of the many 'caves' within and around Cahors.