Michel Trama’s ‘Truffle Hunt’ Chocolate Plate

Michel Trama owns and runs l’Aubergade, a 2 star Michelin restaurant in the heart of the Dordogne truffle country, at Puymirol. Its external wall is unremarkable but inside is a baronial hall, all timber and plaster some 500 years old. His chocolate puds are also remarkable.

I have called this Truffle Hunt because this is what Michel Trama served to a party of intrepid truffle hunters (as in the fungi variety), of which I was one, in the truffle hunting season of 19