Auberge du Cellier, 66720 Montner, France

The Auberge du Cellier is one of my favourite restaurants in the Roussillon area, with consistently good  food and excellent service  So I was delighted to see that they have introduced a new offering – a tapas menu  on Sunday evenings, served only on the terrace of the restaurant.

The menu consists of 6 tapas and a dessert and costs Euros 25, exclusive of wine. When I was there recently, the tapas were red peppers stuffed with cod, sea snails with aoli  (or alternatively  humus if snails  were something you couldn’t manage !), pain tomate, duck cassoulet, and moules marinieres .  The dessert was rousquilles, those delicious icing- covered little cakes  with Chantilly and icecream.

You can choose to have 3 different glasses of wine chosen to accompany the various dishes, at a cost of Euros 15 or alternatively the same wines at 6 euros a glass.

Compared with the weekday lunch menu at Euros 19, which is really excellent value, the tapas were somewhat expensive, but the idea makes a pleasant change and as the menu says, a way to keep away the Sunday evening blues!