La Fontaine, Boulavard Strasbourg, Toulouse.

I had eaten at this place on my last trip to toulouse. They serve good kebab, Turkish style even though the place are owned by Algerians. I personally like the sheesh kebabs. I was told that sheesh kebabs are skewed meat barbequed over a fire and the Turkish are famous for this. The kebabs comes with a generous helping of salad and Arabic bread. After many weeks in France the Arabic bread was a pleasant surprise. Unlike the hard bauguet, this bread was actually soft. I ordered the lamb (agneau in French) kebab and the misses had the beef (bouef in French). Both meat was tender and soft. I really enjoyed this Kebabs. It was not too rare. I shall make a point to go here again if I have another chance of a trip to Toulouse.

Sheesh Kebab Lamb.

Beef Kebab.

Majo.

Arabic bread.

Les Americains, Boulevard Lazare Carnot, Toulouse.

Here comes the weekend and we ventured out for some good French restaurants. We were unable to decide on one place as we were walking around the centre of town for a long time. So hunger got into the way and we decide on this place. As we entered we were surprise to see many customers having shell fish with chips. We were so amazed by it that we decided to order it. We found out thru the menu that it was called moules (or muscles in English). We ordered the entree. They had a choice of bloc de foie gra de canard (roughly translated into fatty duck liver pate) and the salmon. Ordered one of each. The foie gra pate was good. It taste better with some toast.
For info, South of France is famous of Foie Gra with is duck liver. The duck liver is big but as this was pate you don't see the liver as such. They actually force feed the duck until the liver get big enough to be eaten whole. Actual fioe gra is very expensive but during this meal we had the cheaper version.
The moules were ok. I m not much of a fan of shell fish but I try anything the first time. It was a good dinner as we had something that we don't usually have at home.

Bloc de Foie gra de canard.

Smoke salmon entree.

Moules with fries.

Morning Market, St. Aubin, Toulouse.

We were at this Sunday morning market at around St. Aubin. The market is situated around the church. It was pretty intersting and took some shoots of the produced sold there. There were life poultry sold there and there were some of the biggest chickens I had seen in my live. They could be free range chicken. The best thing to buy there was the roast. As I had tried the roast chicken and pork the last time, I decided to buy a leg of roast pork trottes this time. For some reason the skin of the pork is black in colour when roasted unlike the onces we get back in K.L. were it turns orangy red. The skin was crispy with the fat and oil melting in your mouth when biting it. Sinful meat....
This market is big and has many intersting things to see. Attached are some photos I had took for of the market.

The sinful roast pig trottes.
Pizza.

Spanish Paella.

Salon de Herytage, Albi, France.

One of the weekends took a day trip to a town nearby Toulouse called Albi. It similar to Carcasonne but only a smaller version. We had lunch at this place at the city centre beside the Cathedral in Albi. As usual since the speciality in South France was Duck, ordered the duck for myself and the wife order pork. I tasted a bit of the pork, it was just ordinary but the duck was good. I never had so much duck in this short duration as compared to my whole live. The duck leg was juicy and tender. I wonder how long to they need to cook it to get it this way as duck meat is pretty tough. Anyway I didn't want to be bored by technicalities, just to enjoy my duck.

Canard (duck in French).
Porc (pork in French).

Brasserie Firmin, Bd Lazare Carnot, Toulouse.

I always walked pass this place on the way to town. I called it the blue restaurant as it is painted blue on the outside and has lightings after dark that make it look blue. It has a display of seafood outside. I gave it a try last night. Went with a group of friends. As my wife has a weakness for seafood I had to order the Grand Blue (seafood plate) for two and a large crab, three main course and a rose wine. The seafood plate was huge. One thing about the seafood plate was that its served cold, not like what I am use to with all the variety of cooking that can be found in K.L.. The plate had a crab, oysters, mussels, snails and prawns. At the end of it I must say it was good.
The starters we had calamari with ink sauce. It tasted a bit spicy but I am not a big fan of the ink sauce. For the mains we all ordered the samething, the duck (canard in French). The duck was tender and the skin was crispy. Some how with my eating experience here in Toulouse, the poutry skin is always crispy when cooked.
The highlights of the night for me is the chocolate cake with ice cream on it. The chocolate cake was just nice, not too rice or not too dry. The cake had a soft centre and a serving of ice cream on top of it. I normally don't take desserts but I made an exception in this case. The total bill came to 166 Euros for 5 adults.

Bread and condiments for the seafood.
Grand Blue plate.
Mussels.

Oysters.
Snails.
Almost done...Jouclary Rose.

For Starters Calamari with ink sauce.
My other collegue had fish soup.

The mains, Canard.

Chocolate cake with ice cream.