# Restaurant l'Alambic — Auvergne terroir cuisine in Clermont-Ferrand

> Family-run restaurant serving traditional Auvergne "terroir" cuisine since 1996 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Signature dish: hand-pulled aligot. Everything is made in-house from fresh, raw produce. Motto: "Alambiquement vôtre !"

L'Alambic occupies a former distillation house (an "alambic" is a copper still). For nearly thirty years it has been one of Clermont-Ferrand's reference tables for the cooking of the Auvergne region — hearty, generous, and rooted in local produce.

## Key facts
- Cuisine: Auvergne / regional French terroir cooking, made in-house from fresh produce
- Established: 1996
- Address: 6 rue Sainte-Claire, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Phone: +33 4 73 36 17 45
- Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, dinner service 19:00–22:00; closed Sunday and Monday
- Reservations: by telephone; groups of 10+ offered an all-inclusive set menu on request
- Signature dishes: aligot, truffade, potée auvergnate, pounti, tripoux, coq au vin de Chanturgue
- Local products: green Puy lentils, Cantal and bleu d'Auvergne cheeses, Auvergne meats, Blot-l'Église walnut oil
- Languages: French and English
- Payment: cash and credit card; prices net, service included

## Menu (updated 2026-07-25, prices in EUR; dish names French / English)

### Entrées / Starters
- Salade de lentilles vertes du Puy petits lardons déglacés au vinaigre maison / Green Puy lentil salad with small bacon bits deglazed with house vinegar — €9
- Confit de queue de bœuf sur un lit de chou blanc / Oxtail confit on a bed of white cabbage — €10
- Cochonnailles auvergnates / Auvergne cured meats / charcuterie — €12
- Pounti crème de noisettes / Pounti (herb and prune terrine) with hazelnut cream — €8.5
  Blettes cardes, pruneaux, viande de porc, jambon, poitrine fumée, herbes fraîches / Chard, prunes, pork, ham, smoked belly, fresh herbs
- Salade auvergnate jambon, bleu d'auvergne, tomate et noix / Auvergne salad with ham, Auvergne blue cheese, tomato and walnuts — €9
- Cassolette d'escargots fondue de poireaux et crème à l'ail de Billom / Snail cassolette, leek fondue and Billom garlic cream — €12
- Salade verte / Green salad — €4.5
- Jambon d'Auvergne / Auvergne cured ham — €10

### Poisson / Fish
- Saumon gratiné au Cantal et ses légumes / Salmon gratinéed with Cantal cheese and vegetables — €23

### Viandes / Meat
- Pansette façon Gerzat à la moutarde de Blot l'Eglise et pois des champs / Gerzat-style tripe (pansette) with Blot-l'Église mustard and field peas — €20
- Coufidou de joue de porc et ses légumes / Pork cheek coufidou (stew) with vegetables — €19
- Petit salé aux lentilles vertes du Puy / Salt pork with green Puy lentils — €17
- Truffade, jambon d'Auvergne, saucisson et salade / Truffade, Auvergne cured ham, dry sausage and salad — €23
- Saucisse avec aligot / Sausage with Aligot — €24
- Mille-feuille de chou farci "écoutez il mijote" / Stuffed cabbage mille-feuille "listen it simmers" — €18
- Confit de canard maison avec aligot / House duck confit with Aligot — €26
- Menu Enfant: petite truffade et deux boules de glace / Children's Menu: small truffade and two scoops of ice cream — €11

### Fromages / Cheeses
- Fromages d'Auvergne affinés par la fromagerie Nivesse / Auvergne cheeses from Nivesse cheese shop — €12

### Desserts
- Truffier au chocolat glace vanille / Chocolate truffier with vanilla ice cream — €13
- Compotée de rhubarbe et fraises avec faisselle / Rhubarb and strawberry compote with faisselle — €9
- Les 1000° du bouilleur de cru: sorbet pomme et marc d'Auvergne / "Les 1000°" distiller's special: apple sorbet and Auvergne marc — €10
- Nougat glacé à la Verveine du Velay / Iced nougat with Velay Verveine liqueur — €9
- Coupe de l'Unesco glace vanille, praliné, caramel et chantilly aux fruits / "Unesco" coupe: vanilla, praline and caramel ice cream, fruit chantilly — €10
- Pain perdu glace caramel fleur de sel / French toast, salted-caramel ice cream — €8.5
- Tarte du jour et son sorbet / Tart of the day with sorbet — €9
- Profiteroles au chocolat glace praliné / Chocolate profiteroles with praline ice cream — €13
- Coupe des volcans d'Auvergne, sorbet cassis, pomme, fruit rouge et Birlou / "Volcans d'Auvergne" coupe: blackcurrant, apple and red-berry sorbets with Birlou liqueur — €10
- Coupe de trois parfums au choix / Three-scoop coupe of your choice — €8.5
  Sorbets: pomme, cassis, fruits rouges
Glaces: vanille de Madagascar, praliné, caramel fleur de sel / Sorbets: apple, blackcurrant, red berries
Ice creams: Madagascar vanilla, praline, salted caramel
- Café gourmand "Surprise du Chef " / Café gourmand — the chef's surprise — €11

## Links
- [Homepage](https://alambic-restaurant.com/)
- [Full menu in Markdown](https://alambic-restaurant.com/content/menu.md)