I'm a Toulouser baby

This summer, like last, I went to France, where I ate lots of lovely food and now I am going to tell you about it. Excited? What do you mean no?!

First stop, Toulouse home of the most successful Rugby Union side in european history and more interestingly for me, loads of amazing places to eat.

The best meal I had in Toulouse was probably at La Preference. More difficult to find than Where's Wally standing in the Kop at Anfield (slightly narrow frame of reference but you get the idea, it was tough).

Sneaked round the corner from one of the city center's busiest roads, La Preference is nestled in a quiet little square and the restaurant, like the food, looks great. The carpaccio of salmon in lemon balsamic and olive oil dressing to start melted in the mouth, the other starter I tried was their Scallops which was stunning and the lamb shank tagine followed suit, flavours so rich they cracked the pot it was served in.

Toulouse has a wicked indoor market, the type you'd imagine Rick Stein wandering about getting over excited by all the wonderful fresh produce. Rick would of loved the fact its full of fish, which might explain the abundance of sushi restaurants.

I found one nestled in the twisty old Toulouse streets called Sushiyaki, where traditional Japanese decor adorns old red brick walls, where you can get a massive sushi boat for two that looks amazing and where you can get very fine sushi at a pretty decent price.

I very much liked meandering around Toulouse munching a chausson aux pomme for breakfast and I am pretty sure you could eat there in a different restaurant every night for a year and why not!