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Le Vescalibur in Vesc

Bistro with provencal food in the Drôme Provençale


 

"When we opened Le Vescalibur three years ago," explain Sonia and Xavier Rosinski, "there were no longer any shops in Vesc. »

It's true that this village with a population of a hundred or so, sitting at 700 metres altitude, surrounded by lavender fields and only accessible by interminably twisting and turning roads, has the air of being at the back of beyond.

Today, nobody can imagine this small village in the Drôme Provençale without Sonia's smile and Xavier's croustade or lamb filet in garlic. By dint of kindness and some real nice dishes, they have made the bar an essential meeting place for the inhabitants of Vesc and even farther. In the café, they redid all the decoration, and transformed the formica decor into a warm, wood interior. Some tables on the square, a stone's throw from the moss-covered fountain, often empty during the hottest hours of the day, are highly conested when the evening apéritif hour approaches.

Xavier built a pizza oven, to the great joy of his lunchtime regulars, and has just finished transforming the grocery shop into a dining room. "We, nonetheless, continue to sell some products, like bread and, above all, picodon gost's cheese." He adds. "But since we've been here, the village has come back to life - coincidence or a consequence ? - with the arrival of a campsite and a cheese dairy. So I wanted to increase the number of possible seatings." An old woman with white hair pulled in to a bun, impeccable in a blue-flowered dress, pulls aside the fly screes and kisses Sonia.

"Will you put a loaf aside for me ? I'll pick it up shortly."

Two fair-haired girls chat in the back, while two English tourists come in to ask directions. Here, regulars and tourists, the old and the young mix. It's so that places like this, warm and useful, endure and so that villages don't lose their soul that the label "Bistrot de pays" was created by the Chambre of Commerce and Industry. Their credo ? "Conviviality withour moderation." Their characteristics ? To be located in a rural town with a population of less than 2000, to be open all year round, offer basic services unavailable elsewhere in the village (selling bread, newspapers, tobacco, small groceries), offer some sort of dining, even a simple sandwich or salad, using regional produce, provencal food, provide the main local tourist information and promote local products.


Bistro with provencal food in the Drome

Le Vescalibur
26790 Vesc
Phone : 04 75 46 38 87

Open from 8:30am to 11pm. Closed Wednesdays from October to March.
Terrace, cigarettes, small groceries, picodon, bread,
concerts in winter. Family-style traditional cooking.

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