Category: Toulouse Travel Guides

  • The 5 Best Budget Restaurants in Toulouse

    The 5 Best Budget Restaurants in Toulouse

    When I eat out, my first port of call is to google ‘budget restaurants in Toulouse’. I assume most of us do this, inserting our own home cities at the end. Eating is quite possibly one of the most enjoyable activities and food, well, it’s not free. So, the best option is to find restaurants,…

  • The 4 Best Affordable To-Go Lunches in Toulouse

    The 4 Best Affordable To-Go Lunches in Toulouse

    In the summer, a picnic is always a good idea. For those of us from famously wet countries, a picnic in the rain is part of our national identity, and not even a storm can keep us away from our scotch eggs and plastic-wrapped sandwiches. Toulouse in the summer, while a little wayward like a…

  • The Best Hidden Beer Gardens for Summer in Toulouse

    The Best Hidden Beer Gardens for Summer in Toulouse

    Every year when summer rolls around, I find myself nursing some very specific cravings: 1. Pimm’s – ideally with a medley of fruits, cucumber and mint floating on the surface. 2. Olives. Big, meaty ones, the brinier the better! 3. And last but not least, a beer garden or terrace with outdoor seating, ideally shaded…

  • The Best Tea and Cake in Toulouse

    The Best Tea and Cake in Toulouse

    For some reason, it is drilled into us from nursey age that there are three meals a day. I would like to propose that there should be a fourth meal and that one is clearly the tea and cake course. Not that I need to tell you, dear reader, I’m sure you’re like me and…

  • The 5 Best Affordable Restaurants in Toulouse

    The 5 Best Affordable Restaurants in Toulouse

    I’d always wanted to live abroad and finally in 2019, I boarded that plane, carrying my life on my back. Incidentally, that flight took me to New Zealand, and through a series of exciting, surprising (and then there was a little pandemic) circumstances, I’m now living in France! In Toulouse in fact. Do you know…

  • A Foodie’s 24 Hours in Toulouse

    A Foodie’s 24 Hours in Toulouse

    It goes without saying, but I’ll write it anyway – France is famous for it’s food. So, what could be on the agenda for a real foodie with 24 hours in Toulouse in the south of France? Out of France’s five major cities – which also include Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and Marseilles – Toulouse is…