On the Tuesday of our trip, we made a completely failed mission to l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. We were hoping to stop by on our way to Cavaillon's lavender fields. It turns out that for some reason, it's really hard to find lunch on l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue on a Tuesday. The Michelin one star we wanted to go to happened to be closed on Tuesdays, and we ended up walking all around town looking for a place to eat. We ended up settling for a really bad tourist meal.
For dinner, we again wanted to go to Bistrot du Paradou, but it was full. Instead, we checked out La Petite France, a one star place just a couple of minutes away. The restaurant is off the side of the main road going through Maussane and Paradou. We ate inside a little graveled terrace, and throughout the night unfortunately got attacked by mosquitos again. The waittress was kind enough to offer some spray, but it was too little too late. So while the mosquitos feasted on us, we ate the following. La Petite France offers a simple set menu with limited options each night. You get a choice between 2 apps and 2 mains, and you also get cheese and dessert. The price for this - 25 euros! This was probably the biggest steal of the trip. 
olive biscuits After we sat, we were brought these beautiful olive biscuits/pastries. They were hot and wonderfully flaky, with a pronounced olive flavor. I think I downed like five or six of these - they were addictive. 
salade of girolles For my app I chose this simple salad of girolle mushrooms (the other option was a marinated mackerel - it was just okay). The tender, juicy mushrooms were the perfect complement for the simple, lightly-dressed salad. I loved this. 
roasted lamb shoulder For my main, I went with this roasted lamb shoulder, as opposed to the fish. I don't think I'd ever tried lamb shoulder before so I was quite interested. As you can see, it's a nice fatty cut. Somehow it reminded me of roast pork, but with the taste of lamb, if that makes any sense. The three scoops of olive oil mashed potatoes were extremely olive oily and very tasty. I cleaned up this plate... 
cheeses I wish I'd written down which cheeses these are, but I forgot. I remember the blue cheese being surprisingly mild and quite good, though I'm generally not a huge fan of blue cheese. 
assiette gourmande The meal also came with this very ample dessert plate. If I remember correctly, the stuff is: a strawberry cream puff, pistachio ice cream (I think I'm wrong on that one), some kind of chocolate/apricot crumble, and a chocolate hazelnut cake. They were all quite nice, though I remember the apricot thing being a bit too sweet. I liked having a sample of different stuff though. 
butter cookies and truffles Finally, with our coffee came these little cookies and truffles. They actually may have been shortbread cookies - they were certainly rich enough. As for truffles, they weren't Maison du Chocolat, but it's tough to go wrong. All in all, a wonderful meal, and for 25 euros an absolute steal. The next day was pretty awesome, so stay tuned...