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En Pleine Nature is a modern cuisine restaurant at 6 place de la Mairie in Quint-Fonsegrives, a village just outside Toulouse. The Michelin Guide awarded it one star in 2026.
Sylvain Joffre, from Aveyron and formerly of Bras, has cooked here since 2011. He forages wild herbs, flowers and mushrooms himself, and he has started growing rare plants and vegetables. The kitchen says it puts local producers first and limits imported ingredients.
Le Fooding's lunch report describes a brandade topped with pepper cream, whiting with spring onions and patidou, and duck breast with flat beans and baba ganoush. Dessert pairs slow-cooked pear and citron with a Sichuan pepper sorbet. The dining room is done in camel tones inside an 18th-century building.
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Since 2011, Aveyron-native Sylvain Joffre (ex-Bras) has been cultivating his garden behind a beautiful 18th-century building in the middle of a village in the suburbs of Toulouse. The day we went for lunch, in a space all done up in camel tones, his four-course menu (€46) revealed a series of dishes with wild accents: a creamy brandade topped with a pepper cream, as a prelude; a cryptic concoction of coco de Paimpol beans, a leek emulsion, offal and buck-horn’s plantain; pearly white whiting with spring onions, peppers, patidou and an intensely flavorful fumet ; incredibly tender slices of duck breast with flat beans, baba ganoush and a stunning tomato-flavored fromage blanc; before a harmonious dessert that wasn’t too sweet, combining slow-cooked pear and citron, pear and Sichuan pepper sorbet and monk’s pepper leaves. FYI: tours of the herb garden are available (upon request), along with the marvelous bakery/ épicerie /wine shop which opened next door in 2011. // M.R.
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