Eat like a local

We try to find restaurants that are popular with the locals, and today we dined in Le Sambuc, a tiny little town in the Camargue with a great restaurant, L'estrambord.

Last year at this restaurant we ate tiny little fishes about the size of a golf pencil.  This year, we ate tiny little bivalves called tellines for our first course (cold, in an aioli sauce).

Followed by small flatfish called solettes for our main course.

So we were really eating like some local seabirds.

To give you an idea of what tellines are, we traveled south a few minutes to the Mediterranean, and found telline shells on the beach.

The beach

Telline shells on the sand

Telline shells in my hand

Everything was tasty!