Adrien Peguin

Review of Hostellerie de l'Abbaye de la ...

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Review, I wonder if we went in the same restaurant ... we can not say it was bad, it was very good overall, the service is very correct, but overall we are still far from the standards of 1 * restaurants. To begin, we arrive a little early to enjoy the park and have a drink in the park, we are very quickly served but we are entitled to our order, nothing to nibble as we would expect from a restaurant of this level ... we then go to the table, we browse the map, and ask if they offer a complement food / wine match ... negative answer and we will have absolutely no advice for the choice of wine ... it's missing for 1 * anyway, especially with bottles at this price ... for the rest of the meal, it was rather good except for two dishes, the entree, vegetable garden in a vegetable juice .. very good vegetables but tasteless juice, it looked more like a cooking water than anything else, fish dishes and meat very good, even if we would expect something a little more prestigious than hake in a menu at this price it was still very good, meat perfect cooking, no complaints . At dessert, it's the big disappointment ... some strawberry slices of average quality (not very sweet, not too much taste) nature, no mint or other seasoning, on a bed of a cream that looks like cottage cheese lengthened with fresh cream, but also nature, no vanilla or anything ... all on a dry shortbread ... overall it was like a pastry to lose weight .. 0 sweet, 0 butter ... in short, very little taste ...
As for the service during the meal, it was very pleasant, very attentive, but it was like a practical course in a hotel school ... very young, with little experience, the only person Experienced was the chef de rang ... which earned me a glass of wine spoiled by the bottom of the bottle .. at the price of the bottle, it hurts ...
Besides, I did not understand the concept of bread, with a breadboard in the middle of the table, and two pieces of bread that must be cut even by trying not to overturn half of the table already well loaded with glasses and bottles, all for very ordinary bread, see very average, dry ... lack of freshness.
In short, to conclude, it's overall good, even very good, but without identity, very classic, without magic, we expected much better from a restaurant 1 *, owned by Mr. Ducasse ...