Nadia sources products from around the world as well as from local markets and companies like Bastide du Laval, an organic olive farm just down the road. Here French couple Carine and Roland Coupat make the most exquisite olive oil. After 15 years spent in Los Angeles in the tourism business, they returned to France and bought an old vineyard only to find the vines were past their sell-by date. Undaunted, they planted 4000 olive trees and have won awards for their olive oil which you can buy in the farm shop. While you’re there, take a walk around their orchard and admire the trees which in the summer months vibrate to an orchestra of cicadas, the ever present, ever noisy southern French cricket-like insects.
Nadia's enthusiasm is infectious and no matter what level you’re at when it comes to cooking (and believe me, I’m on the bottom rung of the ladder, my French friends call me “Flop Chef Not Top Chef”), she somehow manages to coax her pupils to produce something outstanding.
Naturally the restaurant has an outstanding gluten free menu!
One of the lovely shaded terraces of La Fenière