Le Batia - Saintes

What a great night if you're ever in Saintes. The staff was nice, friendly and helpful, the food was very good indeed and with good designs to choose beers, even this was a great night. When the evening became darker, the atmosphere and the ambience on the boat took up a new life that was very pleasant. We will definitely go back and recommend a visit at any time.

Choice Le Batia as a venue for my birthday dinner with husband according to the recommendation of our local cook Wow what a pleasure. Sad weather meant that we were sitting inside but ambience design very easy with good distance between tables. Staff very friendly, speed... service perfectly timed. My husband chose a menu du Jour I went for the 27euros menu so we could taste each other dishes. Each dish was stunning, good portion size for lunch nicely prepared especially the fish dishes. We'll be back for lunch during the summer.

Having just arrived in Saintes at lunchtime, we emerged from the tourist information office , map in hand , to explore this lovely town. Right in front of us we saw a barge on the Charante advertising a lunchtime menu du jour for 18 Euros....It looked a bit posh for such a reasonable price but we ventured forth. The restaurant itself is decorated with classy simplicity and you can choose to sit inside or outside. The advertisement was not a lie, we got three superb courses for 18 Euros each. In fact, my starter was one of this years gastronomic highlights of carpaccio of beef on a quinoa salad. Beautiful to look at, clean eating and very tasty. My partner had a simple but equally tasty mozzarella and green tomato salad. We both decided on Mullet for the main, delightfully presented. And for dessert I chose cheese which came with a dot of powerful blueberry compote. The staff were efficient and friendly, and had enough English along with our basic French to make the visit easy. Highly recommended.

It won't be to everyone's tastes particularly those of you looking for a hearty meal. But if you have a good command of French or Google translate handy then you should enjoy reading the descriptive menu as a prelude to the real thing. The €27...set menu represents great value. Food, flavours and service were excellent. And if you still find fault with those then there's always the picturesque view especially at sunset.

It won't be to everyone's tastes particularly those of you looking for a hearty meal. But if you have a good command of French or Google translate handy then you should enjoy reading the descriptive menu as a prelude to the real thing. The €27 set menu represents great value. Food, flavours and service were excellent. And if you still find fault with those then there's always the picturesque view especially at sunset.