Le Petit Bouchon sur Royan

15/09/2024: Who has not experienced the pleasures of Pierre Loti knows NOTHING of the pleasures that our mortal existence has to offer us! I still remember, and will forever remember, the day when my eyes first landed on the menu of this establishment. What grace, what elegance in this sequence of flavors offered! The simple enumeration of the dishes had already brought my gourmet mind to satiety, but the stomach has its reasons, and the hunger tugging at my insides, I resolved to enter, although I was not certain of being worthy, into this Academos garden of table pleasures. The reception was beyond all expectations, full of grace and restraint which, without falling into the excesses of pedantry, demonstrated a refinement capable of satisfying the most demanding of souls; as if I had in an instant become a respected and loved member of his new family. The waitress? I wanted to call her “mother” because she was so gentle and caring. The boss? The untied apron gave a glimpse of bulging muscles and a Brobdingnagian body reminded me of Myron's Discobolus and all the anatomical masterpieces that ancient sculpture offered us in abundance. Of the dishes that I tasted, I cannot say much, except that their subtle composition made me suddenly aware of the finitude of the descriptive qualities of all language and all literature; as all the words in the world cannot describe the maelstrom of enjoyment and satisfaction which flowed from my mouth to my throat, even down my throat. All the bacchantes of ancient Greece, the crew of Odysseus at the banquet of Phaeacia, the gods seated in Asgard with the Einherjar, Gargantua gorging himself in Thelema, all have known only the evocation of a dream next centuries-old enjoyments offered by the Pierre Loti in Royan, in Charente-Maritime! Praise be to the leader, and bless his team! Yes ! I affirm this without fear of offense, and without fear! If Christ had known this table, tasted these flesh and drunk these wines, he would have been so fat that all the legions of Rome would not have had the strength to raise the cross after having nailed him there!!!

10/09/2024: Very good service, the dishes are correct.