France Restaurants

Calling Planet Ocean

Advantages: Lovely views. Superb displays of seafood and fish in fishmongers below restaurant.
Disadvantages: Rather average cuisine and service. Surprisingly tasteless dishes. Confusing menu.

Planète Océan is a seafood restaurant in the small town of Étaples-sur-Mer. Étaples is a well-known port on the Canche river in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France so it's not surprising that many of the restaurants there specialise in fish and seafo ...

Bollinger28 30.08.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Planete Ocean, Etaples

Vive la France - in Praise of a Proper Lunch Break

Advantages: Fabulous food, beautifully presented
Disadvantages: I'd prefer to order pudding when I've finished the first 2 courses.

The Power of Good Food The French understand food and know the power of a good meal to raise the spirits or a bad one to set you in a foul mood. When my colleague Phil and I arrived at the factory we’d gone to visit in Chanteloup-en-Brie, our local c ...

koshkha 04.06.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Le Relais Fleuri, Lagny-sur-Marne

Why the French are so justifiably famous for their food

Advantages: Fantastic food, nicely served
Disadvantages: Not exactly cheap but good value

Dinner in the City During my recent trip to Strasbourg I’d had lunch in a restaurant ‘specialising’ in Uzbekistani food and had found it pretty horrible. All I could hope for was to get a proper French dinner to compensate for the icky-yucky ...

koshkha 03.05.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Le Bistrot du Gayot, Strasbourg

We'll hang out the washing on the 'corde a linge'

Advantages: A modern light take on traditional Alsatian food
Disadvantages: A very confusing menu

Have you ever eaten Alsatian? Strasbourg is an interesting place whose nationality has swung back and forth between French and German due to its proximity to the border and the sometimes rather enthusiastic tendency of its near neighbours to pop over ...

koshkha 03.03.2012 · Read full review
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Review of La Corde à Linge, Strasbourg

Simply Superb Sushikai

Advantages: Wonderful food; friendly service; great atmosphere
Disadvantages: Slightly pricey

...So you're in France, supposed culinary capital of the world, where else are you going to eat than in a Japanese restaurant...? In fairness there's a slight fusion aspect to Sushikai, although the emphasis is most certainly on the Far Eastern flavour rathe ...

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Review of Sushikai, Beaune