EBG Rating: 8.4/10

Choice/Quality of Drinks:
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Peculiar and deep range of options. Headliners based on genuine Medieval recipes – think spices, honey etc added to winer, beer and ciders. They have a truly broad roster of drinks covering local cider and craft beer, regional firewater and meads. You will not tire of perusing the menu for the next concoction to sample.

Style/Décor:
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Simple shop front marked as ‘Taverne’, with little sign of the interior. compact, intimate space. One room with a bar to the left as you enter, with some chunky mid-brown varnished tables. Exposed beams. Wood and stone.

The space is decorated tastefully in places (the tapestries in particular) and well lit, while less tastefully in other areas (an entire suit of armour in the room). Newly fit.

Atmosphere/Character:
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Warm, friendly, mellow and jovial at times with the novelty always adding a certain patina to the experience, whether it’s the soundtrack, surroundings or drinks being imbibed. You still feel at all times like you’re in a pub doing pubby things.

Amenities/Events:
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Food, snacks

Value For Money:
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Not cheap although not extortionate either.

Description:
In a city strangely starved of bars of any kind, the Companions of the Round Table is a god send, not only providing a cosy, warm and friendly central tavern in appropriately traditional style for Troyes’ timber-frame old town (known as the Champagne Cork), but going further still with a kind of manic adherence to its high concept.

Yes, this is a theme pub and of course with that there are pitfalls. Corny trappings, waiters referring to you as “Sire”, etc, but this is no Medieval Times style restaurant, but a compact, intimate space. One room with a bar to the left as you enter, with some chunky mid-brown varnished tables.

The space is decorated tastefully in places (the tapestries in particular) and well lit, less tastefully in other areas (entire suit of armour in the room).

It’s a new venture, opened in 2024, and quite frankly god knows what locals did for a pub before then, other than perhaps Chat Noir nearby, there are only a few wine bars and Tabacs to speak of.

The execution (sorry for the Medieval reference) is truly impressive, with a finesse that tells of a well-financed, or at least well-planned operation.

As for the drinks, things get even more peculiar, with the headliners based on genuine Medieval recipes – think spices, honey etc added to winer, beer and ciders. They have a truly broad roster of drinks covering local cider and craft beer, regional firewater and meads. You will not tire of perusing the menu for the next concoction to sample.

Some of this doesn’t come cheap but this is France after all.

The atmosphere of merriment is accompanied by a background soundtrack of light minstrely tavern music which, despite the prospect of becoming cloying, manages not to, at least for an hour or so.

There is a question mark whether they may outgrow the small premises but for now, it perfectly suits their operation.

An essential stop.

(Added January 2026)