les coulisses - Marciac

Delicious food and wine plus large service, also at a busy evening in the february. we chose the menu gascon, absolutely delicious.

In a few words, this place has fantastic dishes and a beautiful location while on a trip in the country gers! for big teller and terroir! personal is nice and friendly

Les Coulisses is an enjoyable restaurant in Marciac with surprisingly good food and local wines to match. Try their foie gras.

Puzzled as to how les Coulisses currently ranks number 1 on this site, for Marciac. Perhaps one eats better here in the evening than at lunchtime; only the menu du jour and a la carte are available at midday. That said one notes that the...Menu Gascon features a demi-magret; first time I have seen a half portion of this Gers classic offered on a menu. perhaps that ethos should have warned us. We had the menu du jour, 3 courses with coffee but NOT wine, €15.50 each. Each course was reasonably well cooked, but hardly copious. The beef tongue sauce was tasty, but the tongue itself lacked flavour. The dessert, moelleux de chocolat was (unsurprisingly) on the small side, but was otherwise very good. Service was warm and cheerful and well timed, despite the restaurant being pretty full. We were extremely surprised to see that the wine list contained only expensive offerings, the least expensive being a good €6 more for a standard bottle than any other restaurant visited in this area....and no carafe house wine. The floc aperitif we ordered was averagely priced at €3, however the floc was poorer quality than usual, worse still, less than half the quantity served anywhere else! Our end of meal coffee was similarly only 2/3 of a cup. To be fair, as stated, the restaurant was pretty full, I guess with local office workers, for whom such a meal on a daily basis is absolutely adequate. but if you want to eat a decent special meal, there are plenty of far better establishments in and near Marciac! Sadly, Coulisses seems to be run by passionless accountants.

The best meal I've eaten this year- every mouthful was yummy! Wish we were staying longer so we could come again!