Cheeses
Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage
The Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage is a appellation cheese produced only from cow milk produced in the Vercors plateaus. This blue cheese is sweeter and smoother than Roquefort cheese, and can be melted.
Saint Marcelin
And saint fã©licien cheeses are produced in the isã¨re valley between romans and grenoble from raw cow milk.
Picodon
Is an apellation cheese made from pure raw goat milk produced in the drã´me or ardeche dã©partements. it is a strongly aromatic even sometimes peppery dry cheese with an exterior color ranging from white to blue or dark greenish grey. this chese is excellent eaten the french way, that is raw on a slice of bread after the main dish and before the dessert.
L'Etoile du Vercors
Although handcrafted cheeses are generally the best ones, some small companies, such as L'Etoile du Vercors Website in French are able to produce excellent ones.
Local specialities
Ravioles
A kind of very small cheese and herbs ravioli. you will easily find them as a side dish in the local restaurants, but they can also be bought, and then are very easy to cook one minute in simmering water
Caillette
Is a finely grounded mix of green vegetable and porc offals enveloped in caul eaten cold or warm on bread. it tastes far better than it sounds. you will find caillette all over the park and also in most of the drã´me valley, in and around grenoble, east of rhã´ne around valence, in the isã¨re valley and the hills surrounding it from grenoble to valence
Cardoon cardon is a vegetable eaten like swiss chards or bog-choi but looking more like an artichoke. This vegetable is known from the mediterranean France to the French-speaking areas of Swizerland. It is generally eaten boiled, or au gratin.
Gratin dauphinois
Is a typical side dish of the rhã´ne-alpes region. it is made from sweat cream, milk and finely sliced potatoes. these ingredients are cooked together slowly in the oven and finaly broiled on the surface.
Noix de Grenoble
Walnuts produced in the vicinity of grenoble, including royans, are reputed in france.
Restaurants
La Buffe
In autrans. telephone: 04 76 94 70 70, fax : 04 76 95 72 48, e-mail: [email protected], website. 19 to 45 euros menus, menus for kids or vegetarians exist.
Northern plateaus:La Buffe in Autrans. Telephone: 04 76 94 70 70, Fax : 04 76 95 72 48, e-mail: [email protected], Website. 19 to 45 euros menus, menus for kids or vegetarians exist.Restaurant Barnier in Autrans
In RoyansLa Table des Forges in St Laurent en Royans, Telephone: 04 75 47 67 50. Trouts from the nearby Cholet and ravioles.Les Tracols in St Laurent en Royans.
La Table des Forges
In st laurent en royans, telephone: 04 75 47 67 50. trouts from the nearby cholet and ravioles.
Les Tracols
In st laurent en royans.
Restaurant Barnier
In autrans