INDIANAPOLIS — Whether you're along on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, on Montmartre or in a quaint French village in the south of France, people love dining outdoors.
But, during 13News' pre-Olympic trip, we discovered a restaurant in Amboise, France, where dining is always inside.
La Cave Aux Fouées offers lunch and dinner in a cave. The restaurant doubles as a mini museum of old tools. You can try chicken and vegetables. But, the real star of the menu is a dish that's very popular in this part of France.
"The name of the bread is fouées. It's the name of the restaurant," owner Pascal Coquelin said.
Coquelin continues a centuries-old tradition of providing his wood-fire oven for villagers to bake their bread.
"You can see it's very high technology," Coquelin joked.
Fouées are eaten straight out of the oven, and are opened and filled with pork spread, bacon and white beans. Coquelin said they are also sometimes coated in cheese.
According to the restaurant's website, they can be described as being "delicate" and "fickle."
While most people in France look for an outdoor table, there is always dining downstairs where the tools of the past hang on the walls and the wood fire oven is always hot — creating fouées for hungry cave dwellers.
"If you like pork, it's very, very, very good," Coquelin said.