O Piment Rouge

Amazing food and serious professional service by the owners. The price is reasonable and waiting time completely justified by the quality of food, you know they make it to order and not simply reheated in the microwave. We were only in and around Lourdes for 3 days and after having a wonderful first meal we immediately booked dinner for the following night.

We stopped here for lunch today before heading back to Spain. We really enjoyed our lunch. Delicious lamb stew and pork cheeks both accompanied by a fresh mashed potato. A glass of house red wine and a plate of delicious cheese completed our lunch. A place to highly recommend when visiting Lourdes.

We spent a week in Lourdes recently and very much enjoyed a dinner at O Piment Rouge. This is a Basque style restaurant situated along Rue de la Grotte. The interior is nicely decorated, there is a fair amount of seating and table spacing is good. I'd recommend making reservations as they were full up on the evening that we dined there. On the occasion, we ordered the Duck Confit (leg) as well as the Duck Breast both served with fries. The confit had crispy skin, succulent and flavourful meat. The duck breast was beautifully grilled at medium-rare with a delightful reddish pink centre. It tasted excellent. Both dishes were worth returning to reorder. House wine and Basque style custard cake served on the evening were worth returning for as well. Overall, this was a great restaurant and meal, one easily worth recommending in Lourdes.

We ordered the menu with a soup, tagliatelle with calamari and ice cream. All 3 options were very bad. The soup had no flavor (it tasted like water), the calamari was very chewy with a flavor of burnt garlic and the ice cream tasted old and had crystals of frozen water on it. Really bad experience, I don’t recommend.

Wow! We ate here having just walked past. The food was stunning. The maitre d’ was such an actor and charming too and really knows his wine. All in all, brilliant! Come and eat here.

Fantastic for a quick lunch or dinner. Pig's cheeks were 🔥!

Fantastic set menu deal, the love and pride with which the dishes had been prepared definitely came through - highly recommend paying a visit & booking at least a day ahead if on the weekend.

Excellent lunch. We had the 19€ 3 course meal. We ordered vegetable soup for our first course which was very hearty and included large veggie pieces and meat (note to vegetarians). For our main dish we had Squid in a garlic chili (not hot or spicy) sauce with chorizo rice that was very flavorful. For dessert I chose the cheese which arrived with bread and Berry jam. My husband chose the pear crumble that was served warm. We had a bottle of the house red wine which was good The staff was friendly and quick, though we were never rushed.

Food was very good especially the linguini with baby squid. for dessert the creme brulee was amazing we could tell that it's a restaurant many customers would return to when in Lourdes. we will definitely come back next time.

Food- my wife ordered shrimp risotto and I got the lunch special with omelette, baby squid linguine and crème brûlée. All are very good!!! Better than most restaurants near the sanctuary. Service-nothing unusual. As expected in a good way. Ambiance- I liked the ambiance including the background music (playing Lloyd Cole and the commotions, Rattlesnakes album) Highly recommended!!!

Exceptional cuisine and customer service! ................. The owner is friendly and staff was attentive. Above all else, the food is amazing!

We were in Lourdes taking the waters with the folks, who aren't very mobile. That's a bit of a challenge, since it's basically impossible to drive in the town: they change the direction of the one-way streets every two weeks to address merchant complaints and make it more "fair". This, however, effectively defeats mapping apps, and you will spend time driving in circles if you decide to force the issue. It's a really clever way to cut down on in-town traffic, actually! The restaurants in the hotel district just outside the Sanctuary are what you would expect of tourism-based businesses catering to often elderly pilgrims from all over the world: a lot of mediocre, lowest common denominator food. I figured we had to just deal with it, since the actual town is up a hill and a bit of a stroll--not really that far, but a world away if you have mobility issues... Fortunately, we discovered that there's an elevator in the street that will whisk you up to the level of the cemetery, rendering the town a reasonable walk away. Dad always had a fascination with the Basque, so we thought we'd give O Piment Rouge a shot. And I'm so glad we did! The servers just had to be the owners--no employees could be so solicitous and friendly. And the food was just a delight: fresh; unusual flavors and combinations; lovely presentation. Offering a jar of piment d'Espelette on the table didn't hurt matters, either!

A surprised quality food in small town. Visited the restaurant for dinner with my friends. 2 of us did the set menu and 1 ordered just the plat option with duck confit. For 1 set menu, we got vegetable soup, the calamari with pasta and creme brulee. The other set menu we got the jambon on scrambled egg, lamb stew and pear crumbles. The food was delicious. The vegetables soup was unexpectedly good. Duck confit was crispy outside, tender inside with really good French fries. My friend loved the lamb stew with pasta. Creme brulee was smooth. Overall was a great dinner. More memorable then the food we've ate in Paris so far.

The food was amazing ! I love squid and vegetable soup and they were both so good. I come form a town where we eat a lot of sea food. Dessert was great! Highly recommend. Very good service and very clean and beautiful inside.

My mom and I visited Lourdes and it was a great experience. I wanted to take her out for a nice dinner and because of the overwhelming number of sidewalk restaurants with French names and French menus, I decided to check Yelp and found this lovely place for a nice Basque dinner. It was tucked away a little outside of the center streets but easy to find and not much of a hike from our hotel. The service was great, the atmosphere was nice, and the food was delicious! My mom had squid in squid ink and I had to steal some because it was so good. Also, we usually don't get dessert in the U.S. mainly because we're stuffed full by the end of an American meal but we had enough room left after French portions to get dessert. We got a fromage (cheese) platter and a custard sponge cake which were also delicious. I definitely recommend this place to anyone that might find themselves in Lourdes. A little pricier but definitely worth it in my opinion. Thanks to fellow Yelpers for the recommendation!

OMG!!! The most amazingly crispy and moist fried duck leg and melts in your mouth lemonsthat I ever had.

We went here back in January, so I'm not sure how crowded it gets during the pilgrimage season. I've wanted to try Basque cuisine for years, and this experience lived up to all of my hopes! Pretty much every meal I ate in France was great, but this place definitely ranks near the top. The vegetable soup here was amazing--even better than when I had it in Paris! My husband and I particularly appreciated how attentive the service was. We don't speak French very well, and I'm not sure how much English the staff knew, but they had no problem making an extra effort to communicate with us. I will remember this experience for the rest of my life. I really hope I get the chance to come here again!

What a gem among all the tourist traps in Lourdes. I was looking for a great place to eat and found this recommendation. Highly recommend the set Prix menu. You can't go wrong for 26 euro, fois gras, duck confit, and gateau basque. If you're in the mood for something adventurous, try the warm octopus salad.