For restaurants, L'Épicerie, 18 place Belat (tel 04.75.42.74.46; closed Sat lunch, Sun & Aug), is one of the most congenial places to eat, with art exhibitions on the fifteenth-century walls, jazz some nights and imaginative food on menus from €16 to €48. Another good option is Père Joseph, 9 place des Clercs (tel 04.75.42.57.80), which serves excellent-value traditional food, with menus starting from €12, but if you want to eat very well and are prepared to pay over €99 for the pleasure (or €42 for a lunch weekday menu), Restaurant Pic, 285 av Victor-Hugo (tel 04.75.44.15.32; closed Sun eve, Mon & three weeks in Jan), is the city's top-notch eating house: roast lobster with truffles, asparagus with hollandaise sauce and caviar, and frozen nougat are some of the delights. Valence also has several good old-fashioned brasseries with a wide range of dishes and prices, including Café Victor-Hugo, 30 av Victor-Hugo, and Le Bistrot des Clercs, 48 Grande Rue; plus an excellent salon de thé, One Two Tea, at 37 Grande Rue. If you missed sampling some pogne in Romans, head for the bakery Maurin Fils, at 17 av de la Gare.
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