Le Quai Zaco

Frommer's Review

Its solid stone walls were originally built 200 years ago as a warehouse, and just before it became a restaurant, it functioned as a sales outlet for sporting goods. Today, it's a hardworking and conscientious restaurant with two distinctly different dining rooms, each with a decor that accents the antique masonry with jazzy artwork, molded plastic chairs, and industrial-looking tables. The cuisine is derived from southwestern France and northern Spain, and it might, on the day of your arrival, include a spicy gazpacho with ravioli stuffed with goat cheese; piccata of veal with stuffed tomatoes; sweetbreads with foie gras, endive salad, and pine nuts; a fricassee of artichoke hearts with oxtail; and stingray with caper-flavored butter. Desserts are plentiful and imaginative. How about a lemon-flavored pannacotta accented with a "carpaccio" of spiced and sliced oranges? You'll find this place about 1km ( 2/3 mile) north of the Gare St-Jean, immediately beside the wharves of the Garonne River.

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