Anecdote - La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil

The menu blackens back to the 70s so expect crepe suzette and steak au poivre, but mixed with more modern options. note the main menu has no vegetarian options that they need to request when booking. eating is good, but it's pretty. expensive they can also eat for less in montreuil. the place has a lot of style, but the tables are around the edge of the room to allow a large central island where they finish dishes for the table much sauté and flame. it looks good, but means that the tables are pretty cramped they are wange through jowl with their neighbors. service is friendly, but it was a little surprising to go until at the end of the meal given the cost.

As a “highlight” meal of our recent stay in montreuil sur mer, we let anecdote feel disappointed that the kitchen was obviously under the stage and that the front of the house was aware of it. for entrees was the terrine de fois gras good (although it can be...worth that the 3cm disc is definitiw to share), but the sand carrots and longoustine was to the greatest part, inedible. the carrots were tasteless with an insipidy sauce, into which tiny raw peeled longustine had been dropped. the whole court was tepid, unseasonal, and the raw anaesthesia was certainly a mistake, perhaps they were destined to be cured by the sose, but in any case the court was returned practically unaffected. if the shellfish should be raw, then it should have been made clear on the menu. the plates were not better. the rascasse was still cold underboiled, the accompanying tepid and the entire dish free from any season and taste. the noix de veau had all the brands cooked and reheated earlier, it was hard, overboiled, and the center was cold. as with the fish dish there was no seasoning and it was tepid. two points of interest, the next table of ours was a French couple that had exactly the same main dishes as ours and were similarly disappointed. also, both the waitress and the dame who took the payment without prompted, immediately asked if we wanted to pay for these courts. it seems that they realized that everything was not good with eating, but they remained it.

Booked here for a Saturday evening pleasure and our meal really enjoyed. my partner started with super-freshly cooked calamares, and I ordered the unlikely sounding combination of flower cabbage and oysters. these were considered delicious: the peeled oysters in flower coal, with tiny sheer. of raw cauliflower and paper-thin strips of cauliflower stalk. we had more difficulty choosing the main course. of the five alternatives, three with bark meat, one fish and one quail with longustin. I suspect vegetarians might have fought. but we are not, so happy went for the quail. the combination of surf and rasen was somewhat unusual, but quite good. it came with a great help from spinat, and a court next to which we could not identify until we looked out the waitress and then looked out on the internet. fregola pasta, apparently from sardinia. we loved it! the tarte didin dessert, ordered at the beginning of the meal, turned out to be enormous, and would have fed four enough! we took the second half with us to house to enjoy the next day. eating was very good round, the staff was helpful and efficient. I only know it because the tables were alarmingly close to each other for these Covid times. we went on a Saturday at 7.45 a.m., and at this point only everyone else was filled with table that felt good; but an ascent later diner about 8.30 clock immediately filled the tables to 1 meter both side of us, which encourages us to eat quickly, Forgo coffee, and go.

We sat outside, service was attentive we had an enjoyable evening. The food was of good quality, interestingly the portions were bigger than expected. My wife I shared a starter shared a dessert (we had our own mains) it was too...much food. Not cheap but good.

Had dinner here with a friend in June 2020 on an overnight trip in Montreuil on my way to La Grenouillère. This is owned by chef Alexandre Gauthier and is located in the Hermitage Best Western hotel. Food is absolutely excellent. Cocktails are amazing. The...staff could improve its service but I recognize that it was a few days post Lockdown so things were just starting to get back in order.