Le Chambourdin

There are several of restaurants at Chambord, very close to the castle. One is called Le Chambourdin. We didn't eat there, but we parked in the restaurant's parking lot and then walked to the château. Since it was about ten in the morning, the restaurant was closed and the parking lot was empty.

The entrance is not on the street but just off
the parking area to the left.

Le Chambourdin looks like an old road house to me. I've searched around the 'net for more information about it, looking especially for customer reviews, but I've come up empty-handed. It looks like a much more substantial restaurant than some of the fast-food, snack-bar places that are clustered around the edge of the main parking lot for château visitors.

An old roadhouse?

As is customary or even required in France, the restaurant's carte and menu are posted outside so that passers-by can look it over and make a decision about eating there or not. Here's a photo of the set-price menu.


If you want just a main course and a dessert, it's 18 euros. For three euros more, you can have a starter course and a main dish (but no dessert). If you want all three courses, it'll be 27.90 euros. That's about $40 U.S. It's on the high end of what you might pay for lunch in a restaurant out in the country — but this is Chambord, after all.

The choice of appetizers includes a salad with goat cheese melted on toast, or a terrine of red mullet with cocktail sauce. The main dishes are a piece of salmon fillet with vegetables and saffron rice, or chicken with stuffing, a Tourangelle sauce, vegetables, and potato. Desserts include the classics: crème brûlée, mousse au chocolat, ice creams, sorbets, pastries, charlotte, or chocolate cake with egg custard sauce.

If you've eaten at Le Chambourdin, I'd like to hear about the experience.