Milord — Restaurant in De Panne

We found it on Google Maps, while on our 2nd stay in De Panne. It looked super cool so we called to book a table. Our only mistake was to not specify we were a family with 2kids and that we needed one highchair. Once arrived in the place, we were told to leave the pram OUTSIDE(it was raining), that they didn't have any high chair available and the lady claimed it was our fault because we did not specify it while booking. No other kid was there at the moment so obviously there was no high chair at all. We had a 11months old baby and we seated him on one of the chairs around the table (in a very tiny space due also to Covid-19 safety measures). The lady came saying to be careful to the wall and to pay attention to not scratch the wall with the chair the baby was using and asking if the baby was taking something from the menu, explicitly annoyed by our negative response. To sum up: not a family friendly place, very unflexible and rude. They claim to serve Italian dishes as well but they should know that in Italian restaurants the first thing is to make the client feels like at home. We are Italians and we know very well how to treat the tourists. Btw, if you write "primi" on the menu it is implicit that you mean "main course" so, it is useless to ask, when I chose a dish from that "primi", if I want it as a starter or if you have to do it as a main. There are tons of other nice place in De Panne. Do not waste your time and...

If you’re looking for a traditional Italian restaurant, this is not it. They’ve taken Italian food and tried to make it fancy and added about 5 Euro more for each dish. It’s more of an Italian fusion restaurant in my opinion. The place looks fancy and close by the beach. Ordered seafood pasta and was disappointed. They added broccoli to the sauce and the only seafood you’ll see on your plate are some muscles. The 4 cheese pizza also was not that good and seemed to only have 1 or two types of cheese as wells as it being a small serving size. Carbonara was okay and loaded with pancetta! Overall it was okay, luckily we were starving from being at the beach all day and it helped me eat all my food. Service could be a little friendlier, maybe because we were wearing basic shorts...

My wife and I stopped there for lunch after a long walk in the beautiful de westhoek reserve. We went in without high expectations (we knew food would be average) but came out extremely disappointed inrespectively. My wife, vegetarian, ordered penne with pesto gratin. To our surprise this place puts chicken to make pesto (clearly there was no mention of chicken in the menu). The manager response was "we have done pesto with chicken for over 15 years". Obviously, no offer to change her dish. Final surprise when we asked for the bill. A bottle of sparkling water (0.75 liter) cost us 9.90 euro!! Note a beer 0.33 liter is a reasonable 3 euro. To my surprise, the rude manager invites us to stay home next time. Next time we will just...