Their welcoming was pretty fine. They accomodated us to the place with a nice view on the bay (please note that there is veranda in-between: so forget to have an open vue degagee on the coast). The low tide is here every now and then, so you will not see waterfronts but rather a kind of sabled mud disappearing at the horizon. This is why I prefer the picture of Tripadvisor, giving you a stable viewpoint on the front building.||||The menu is printed on a fixed set of pages giving the impression their strong points are the "moules", which is however hard to accept if you live in Belgium as we do.||The conversation is sometimes surrealistic: ||Here an example: "Tonight I do not feel to eat much as I have some fever" (customer)||Response from the waitress: "C'est bien", meaning that it is a good thing (maybe you can read her wise statement so that having fever will warm you, no need to drink alcohol, eat less and save your money). ||||If you like Eugene Ionesco's books, therefore this is the right place to go .||The other guests wanted some wine. Interestingly enough the list of wine does not display the year of the bottles anywhere (do not try to conceive to ask difficult and out-the-blue questions about the "cepage" or the "cuvee") but a generic denomination: Chablis , or Riesling, that is all in all , as Tomistic wisdom taught us and pre-socratic school said that the being is always the same and never changes.||Customer asks: may I ask you the year of the wine ?||(waitress raises eyebrowns and with a grim comes back to you and points you the finger to a point of the bottle, which is extremely helpful unless you have some eyesight problem).||The salad with shrimps is another strong point. Green is the coulour and fresh. Tomatoes are, as usual in North Europe, the element of colour only. You will not try to look snobish to eat tomatoes having the Dutch taste, not really ? One special point of this gastronomic salad is that there is not dressing on it: looking around the room you do not see any visible sign of the presence of oil (any kind of oil) and vinegare. Of course the waitress already believes that you do not need to ask such things. This means this restaurant can be a typical example of a new gastronomic salad of green vegetables in their original taste.||The dessert is another key-moment. ||Do you like creme chantilly ? Good, as you will anyhow find in all the desserts they propose you. As dishes are huge, the creme chantilly would cover the surface appropriately and accordingly .||The whole evening the background music (at low tones of sounds, sincerely not disturbing us) would be Abba and other greatest hits of the Seventies you cannot find anywhere else.||For such a gastrononomic menu, you can count a budget of around 33 euro per person, water included.||(the wise waitress would prove you her wisdom until the end: she would not come to bother you to greet you and she will therefore nicely prevent you to even thinking of giving her...
Read moreTheir welcoming was pretty fine. They accomodated us to the place with a nice view on the bay (please note that there is veranda in-between: so forget to have an open vue degagee on the coast). The low tide is here every now and then, so you will not see waterfronts but rather a kind of sabled mud disappearing at the horizon. This is why I prefer the picture of Tripadvisor, giving you a stable viewpoint on the front building.||||The menu is printed on a fixed set of pages giving the impression their strong points are the "moules", which is however hard to accept if you live in Belgium as we do.||The conversation is sometimes surrealistic: ||Here an example: "Tonight I do not feel to eat much as I have some fever" (customer)||Response from the waitress: "C'est bien", meaning that it is a good thing (maybe you can read her wise statement so that having fever will warm you, no need to drink alcohol, eat less and save your money). ||||If you like Eugene Ionesco's books, therefore this is the right place to go .||The other guests wanted some wine. Interestingly enough the list of wine does not display the year of the bottles anywhere (do not try to conceive to ask difficult and out-the-blue questions about the "cepage" or the "cuvee") but a generic denomination: Chablis , or Riesling, that is all in all , as Tomistic wisdom taught us and pre-socratic school said that the being is always the same and never changes.||Customer asks: may I ask you the year of the wine ?||(waitress raises eyebrowns and with a grim comes back to you and points you the finger to a point of the bottle, which is extremely helpful unless you have some eyesight problem).||The salad with shrimps is another strong point. Green is the coulour and fresh. Tomatoes are, as usual in North Europe, the element of colour only. You will not try to look snobish to eat tomatoes having the Dutch taste, not really ? One special point of this gastronomic salad is that there is not dressing on it: looking around the room you do not see any visible sign of the presence of oil (any kind of oil) and vinegare. Of course the waitress already believes that you do not need to ask such things. This means this restaurant can be a typical example of a new gastronomic salad of green vegetables in their original taste.||The dessert is another key-moment. ||Do you like creme chantilly ? Good, as you will anyhow find in all the desserts they propose you. As dishes are huge, the creme chantilly would cover the surface appropriately and accordingly .||The whole evening the background music (at low tones of sounds, sincerely not disturbing us) would be Abba and other greatest hits of the Seventies you cannot find anywhere else.||For such a gastrononomic menu, you can count a budget of around 33 euro per person, water included.||(the wise waitress would prove you her wisdom until the end: she would not come to bother you to greet you and she will therefore nicely prevent you to even thinking of giving her...
Read moreI accept that I arrived late (after a long day's hike), but the welcome was perfunctory at best. I was told that I was too late for dining, even though there were people still eating. They agreed to rustle something up, but it could only stretch to a plain cheese sandwich. The room was cosy and the bedding was clean. At breakfast, the buffet was fine, but I was asked to sit next to the only other occupied table in the room - a little bit awkward - even though there were about 30 other free tables. The sea views were great. Aux Trois Jean has a lot going for it, but they just need to remember we are...
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