Restaurant
La Verticale / Glouglou
Belleme
Wine bistro on the main square. The team buy their produce at the Thursday market across the street, so the menu is never the same two weeks running. The cooking is honest, seasonal and consistently good. But what sets this place apart is the wine list, one of the best selections in Le Perche, chosen with real care. In summer, the terrace and garden out back are where you want to be. Run by Isabelle Darroman (restaurant) and Pascal Thiefin (cave). We eat here often and it never disappoints.
The wine list is the real draw. Ask for a recommendation.
Market
Mortagne Saturday Market
Mortagne-au-Perche
The best food market in Le Perche. Multiple charcutiers selling boudin noir, excellent cheese stalls, fish, produce, cider, and Calvados. Mortagne is a beautiful walled hilltop town.
Get there by 9 for the good stuff.
Market
Belleme Thursday Market
Belleme
Our local market. Running since the Middle Ages. 20-40 stalls depending on the season: goat cheese, vegetables, rotisserie chicken, bread, honey, flowers.
Walk
Foret de Belleme
Belleme
2,400 hectares of oak and beech forest with multiple marked trails. Easy loops for a morning walk or longer hikes if you want them. Famous for mushrooms in autumn.
Autumn is best for mushrooms.
Town
La Perriere
Belforet-en-Perche
One of the prettiest villages in Le Perche. Stone houses, a handful of antique shops, a good restaurant, and excellent brocantes throughout the year.
About 10 minutes from Belleme. Combine with a drive.
Shopping
Belleme Antique Shops
Belleme
Several permanent antique and brocante shops in the old fortified town. Furniture, ceramics, glassware, old linens, and the occasional find.
Go when the market is also running.
Golf
Golf de Belleme
Belleme
A superb 5,942-metre, par-72 hillside course with long views over the surrounding countryside. Next door to the town of Belleme and its UNESCO-listed state forest. Technical and demanding: water hazards, dense woodland, and several blind holes that reward local knowledge. One for golfers that like a challenge.
Several blind holes, study the course map before you play.
Shopping
L'Epicerie Bellemoise
Belleme
Right on the main square in Belleme, this is the kind of grocery shop every town wishes it had. Shelves stocked with local produce, proper cheese from nearby farms, charcuterie, cider, honey, and whatever is in season. The tomatoes here are genuinely the best in the area. Run by Suzanne, who knows every product and every producer personally. Locals swear by it and visitors keep coming back. She speaks French, English and Dutch, so no one leaves confused.
Check the cheese section. Best tomatoes in the area.
Golf
Golf du Perche
Souance-au-Perche
Independent 18-hole course on 55 hectares of rolling hills, wheat fields and century-old trees inside the Parc Naturel Regional du Perche. Founded in 1987 when Philippe de Yturbe converted his family estate into a club. On-site restaurant Le Green.
High on our list to play. Book online.
Restaurant
D'une Ile
Remalard-en-Perche
Bertrand Grebaut and Theophile Pourriat ran Septime and Clamato in Paris, two of the most talked-about restaurants of the past decade. They are now in a restored 17th-century hamlet outside Remalard, cooking daily-changing menus with whatever the garden and local farms provide. The setting alone puts it at the top of our list: eight hectares of grounds, a swimming pond, an orchard. This is the reservation we are making first.
On our list. Booking is essential.
Restaurant
Oiseau
Preaux-du-Perche
Under new management since May 2026. The space that was Oiseau Oiseau (Sven Chartier's converted farmhouse on the Place Saint-Germain, pale wood, wood-burning stove) has new owners and a new, shorter name. We have not been since the change of hands. We would like to test it out.
New owners, Check-in.
Restaurant
Sauge, Auberge Percheronne
Reveillon
Chef Amandine Chaignot's auberge in the village of Reveillon. This is the fine-dining option in Le Perche: precise, seasonal cooking in a classic Percheron building. By all accounts, a proper destination restaurant. We are saving this one for the right occasion.
On our list. Book ahead, especially on weekends.
Restaurant
Cafe des Amis
Boissy-Maugis
A classic French bistro run by Patricia and Arnaud in a village where you would not expect to find one. Daily-changing menus, honest portions, and apparently excellent Negronis. The kind of place that keeps coming up in conversation when you ask locals where they actually eat. Lunch is supposed to be the move.
On our list. Locals keep recommending the lunch.
Restaurant
La Vie en Rouge
Mortagne-au-Perche
Lou's place in Mortagne. Saucisson sec, cheese boards, simple dishes. The sort of spot people describe as somewhere you drop in without a reservation and leave happy. On the list for a casual evening when we do not want a three-course production.
On our list. No reservation needed.
Restaurant
La Maison d'Horbe
La Perriere
Part restaurant, part tearoom, part flea market, part B&B. On paper, doing this many things at once is a warning sign. But the menu sounds better than it should: duck foie gras, salmon tartare, white truffle scrambled eggs. There is a baroque dining room and, in summer, a courtyard. The attached brocante is worth a browse after lunch.
On our list. Combine with a walk around La Perriere.
Restaurant
Maison Ceronne
Sainte-Ceronne-les-Mortagne
A minimalist guesthouse with a restaurant serving shared plates. The design is what caught our attention: 1960s-80s designer furniture, two pools, a Nordic bath. People who have been say the food matches the setting. We want to see if that is true.
On our list. Consider staying the night.
Restaurant
Les Pres
Saint-Hilaire-le-Chatel
A former hunting lodge and convent turned hotel-restaurant. Run by Stephane Renaud and Eric Brossard. The grounds sound beautiful: centuries-old trees, gardens, the Hoene river running through. We are curious about the cooking and whether the service lives up to its reputation.
On our list. A place for a longer, considered meal.
Wine bar
Le Silo Cave
Mortagne-au-Perche
Not a restaurant, strictly speaking. Marie Verlhac and Valentin Le Cron run a wine bar and cafe focused on natural and biodynamic wines, with coffee from Noiram roastery. This is the place we will probably visit first, because it is exactly the kind of low-key, well-curated spot we gravitate towards. Good for an afternoon glass or a pre-dinner apero.
On our list. Natural wines and good coffee.
Restaurant
Villa Fol Avril
Moutiers-au-Perche
A 19th-century coaching inn doing traditional French cooking. Slate board menus, exposed beams, a heated pool in summer if you are staying over. It has been around for a while and the reputation is steady.
On our list. Sunday lunch candidate.
Restaurant
Domaine de Villeray
Sablons-sur-Huisne
The gastronomic option by the river. White tablecloths, formal service, a wine list with depth. Old-school French dining. Not for every night, but for the right occasion, this is where we will go.
On our list. For the right occasion.
Market
Une Ferme du Perche
Reveillon
A small organic farm near Mortagne-au-Perche growing over 200 varieties of vegetables. Every Wednesday evening in August, they open Les Mercredis Fermiers by the farm pond: local cheese, bread, cider, charcuterie, and whatever the season provides. Shared tables, wine, and a proper community atmosphere. If it rains, everyone moves into the barn and it gets even better.
Go hungry. The pond setting on a warm evening is hard to beat.
Restaurant
Paysages
Bellême
At Paysages they cook with seasonal ingredients that respect the surrounding environment. A bucolic stroll along the paths of the Perche region, enhanced by thier travel memories.
The menu is constantly changing, in tune with the harvest, the life of the farm and the gentle maturing process.
A traditional cuisine, free from fads, where the ingredients are prepared with love and everything is cooked over a wood fire.
