We had been asked by friends to recommend a restaurant for dinner with them in Nîmes. We naturally took this request very seriously because we are going to eat the food, so we decided to do some research. After an hour on the Internet we came up with a list of six places to investigate. Off to Nîmes we went. The first place, we eventually found, had been closed two years. Great! Another didn't reopen until 25 July after their hols (doesn't it make more commercial sense to close in the off season?) and we didn't relish the thought of three others. So Restaurant L'Antigone, 36 rue Fesque, it was. They have a little outside courtyard and, as luck would have it, we grabbed the last table in the place. It has only been open a month and a half, so they were trying extra hard and the portions were huge. To start Jan had ravioli stuffed with foie gras together with girolles mushrooms and citronelle. I had scallops with a fig jam. Excellent. We both had fish for main course. I expected dorade fillets en papillotte and actually got a whole fish. I can't imagine that they'll keep that up, but you never know. By this time I was quite full but was then faced with an enormous chocolate pudding about 9 inches high, which frankly put me off a bit. It was very elaborate and somewhat unnecessary but if you are a pudding fan then you'd have loved it. This was washed down with one of my favourite roses, Domaine Henry 2005. The bill came to 88 euros, so not cheap, but very good nonetheless. Recommended.
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