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I think I was thinking of DeolsSenior moment
It was just a Euro-routiers on the RN 20 called Aire L’Escale Village
Aah Deols, opposite the airport! Great place indeed, and still going strong
Yes, that was good too, and plenty of parking away from the noise, but I often chose the one at Sortie 9, a bit further north. More traditional apart from the giant polished oval table he bought in a moment of madness (he did like a drink and spent little time serving customers in earlier days, preferring to sit on a stool at one end of the island bar with a drink and chatting to the clientele while his glamorous wife did the business at the other end, perching gracefully on a stool showing off her long legs between servings 
). You felt as if you were attending the board meeting of an international company rather than eating. 
I was reminded of it when I watched Putin talking to Macron from 4 metres away at the far end of a less attractive, and less broad, table.
In later years, he was much older and the vision of the stool had disappeared. Again, calling in during my dog delivering days my little charge of the moment was scared out of his wits by the donkey that suddenly brayed at him from its stall not far from the front door. So many characters on the road, and not all of them in lorries. 