1- The Snail Farm

1- The Snail Farm 

In 1908, the Thabard family established a snail farm on the plateau near La Trouhaude. This area served as both a breeding and spawning ground. They also opened a cannery and a restaurant in the family home located on Rue Haute (now Rue Alfred Changenet).

Alice Thabard had a chalet built on the plateau, near the breeding grounds, under the cedar and fir trees. It was a truly unique and charming open-air café, very popular with the people of Dijon at the time. Upon her death in 1916, the chalet closed.

Nevertheless, the snail farm continued to operate, as did the cannery and the restaurant. In 1933, Mr. Vota, the new owner, had another snail farm built on the road to Beaune. Today, the hotel-restaurant of the same name is still in operation.

All the work around the snail stopped in 1938. The Thabard and Vota families wrote a page in the history of Chenôve and brought honor to the snail, a great specialty of Burgundian gastronomy.