Manoir de l'Acherie - Sainte-Cécile

As an American landowner in saint Sever-Calvados, normandie, we recommend le manoir de l 'acherie for anyone who serves a relaxing high-quality dinner or lunch in the wonderful French need no haste and excellent cuisine, with warm house made brot and hard to find american martini. madam poignavant is an excellent hostess, her normandie is happy to have this caliber of the restaurant available to all of us. commander rand h. wintermute, uscg (ret. cercle national des armies)

A regular place to stay as we journey from our ferry crossing to Zeebrugge, knowing that a friendly welcome awaits. Rooms, though not enormous, are pleasant and there is ample space for a break. Always clean and comfortable we enjoy the experience of a stay...in a home typical of the region. The food, both dinner and breakfast, is of excellent quality, well prepared and presented, using locally sourced ingredients. Ample private parking available so all in all, a near perfect place to stay. If requires, English is spoken. We have stayed here many times over more then a decade, and will continue to do so s long as health permits the travelling.

This is such a lovely place to stay and to eat. A beautiful old building and quiet location. Our room was a good size with a large, very comfortable bed, a kettle etc, which is very unusual in a French hotel, and a typically French...bathroom. The menu is very good and features dishes cooked on the huge wood-fired cheminée. Local produce is used. Absolutely everything is home cooked, except the bread and breakfast viennoiserie. We ate there on 2 of our 3 nights stay and were very happy. Good wine, locally brewed beer and cider also available. This logis is family run, the service is excellent, friendly. English is spoken but they were very patient and responsive as I practised my French! Not the cheapest but very good value.

We visited this hotel restaurant on a cold evening and were welcomed warmly - including a roaring fire! Coats were taken and hung in a four poster bed (you have to see it!) and seated at our table. We chose the 30€ menu which included a terrine made from the local hunt's catch (hare and boar). Delicious. Then my husband and I chose the pink medallions in an award winning cider sauce. Dessert was Tarte Normande (a large slice of apple pie) served with vanilla ice cream and then flambeed at the table with calvados. Amazing. We had an excellent bottle of Bourgogne for a very reasonable 23€. All in all, a really good meal made with local ingredients well worth the money. Definitely recommended!

We came here at the end of a short holiday nearby and had a really lovely evening. The staff were great, with helpful advice. The dining room (and make sure you book - it is only got 8 tables) is very nicely proportioned with a huge wood burning fire on one wall - depending on what you order, you can watch it being cooked! Also some very nice details like the lovely table ware.The food is great - several fixed price options plus a la Carte. We went for the 33 euro menu, which was excellent value and lovely food. The sauces were an absolute high light - and the traditional orange sauce for the duck was spectacular. Apple tart flambé-ed in Calvados was a visual highlight as well as delicious. An eclectic wine selection - we had a well matched red.And a real winner for us was the atmosphere in the dining room - a wonderfully French formal informality which made for a great evening.