What a wonderful weekend in spite of the thunderstorms that took over Saturday afternoon. I have to tell you about our trip to Les Halles on Saturday morning. “Les Halles” is an indoor market that’s open every day, even on Sunday. You can purchase practically anything you want there: fruit, vegetables, olive oil, meat, poultry, HORSE meat, fresh eggs, pastries, and the list goes on and on. We’ve been to Les Halles many times in the past, but on this particular Saturday, it was getting close to noon. We were there with the kids, and all of our stomachs started to rumble at about the same time, so it’s no surprise that we all scoped out “La Gargote des Halles” at the same time. We hadn’t planned to eat out, in fact we were shopping to have “de quoi manger” at home. It was time for a compromise: l’apéritif!! And why not, it was the weekend after all!
The plan was to just have a little snack of chorizo. Needless to say, we wanted a glass of wine to go with that. Then we ended up ordering an assiette de cochonailles (a plate of charcuteries), a bit more chorizo, a plate of homemade fries, some fried pimentos like they eat in Spain, and another glass of wine for each of us and a Coke for the kids to split. It was so much fun with the bustling atmosphere and friends meeting up left and right, and it was also very inexpensive. By that I mean 40€ for the four of us. Now here’s the most interesting part, and something we’re planning to do very soon. You can go shopping at Les Halles and pick up whatever it is you’d like for lunch, whether that be meat, fish, seafood like mussels, etc. You bring it to La Gargote des Halles, and for 2€50 they cook it for you! If you want some of their to die for homemade fries to go with your meal, it’s just 3€50 extra. Oh, and a tempting glass of really good local wine will cost you less than 2€ a glass. Definitely worth a trip to Les Halles de Béziers. This may become a weekend tradition chez les Crespin. I don’t believe there’s one out of the four of us who would complain about that.
Living in Languedoc 