Le Mathurin du bateau à l'assiette — Restaurant in Abbeville

When the restaurant first opened, around summer of 2015, we were there and supported it a few times in one trip. A young chef with aspiration cooking the fish that was fished by his dad. Early on, his lovely mum was helping him with service and with orders and things were near perfection. Not a Michelin starred food but this was honest food cooked with passion and by using what the sea gives on the day.The place had a tiny kitchen and a couple of tables outside. Even in Dec. we sat in the cold and enjoyed it.

As the chef became known and they acquired the place next door, it became a full and a bigger restaurant. Although the value for money was no longer adequate compared to the service and to the experience but this was still no major issue for us, at all, and we continued to go and to support during our regular visits to St Valery, which were also frequently.

Until one day, when we were there and a very rude waitress attended to us. She was very abrupt when we asked questions about items on the menu. She then added insult to injury by not passing to the chef an allergy to gluten. The dish came topped up with a large sourdough toasted bread with part of it sitting in the sauce. I sent it back and to my shock the chef took the bread out and resent the dish in less than a minute. A big, horrific and a non-forgiving mistake from the chef. Of course I didn't touch the dish which was also added to the bill and no apology has been made. Since then, even if Le Mathurin became the only option in the area , we shall not set foot there.

Those of you with allergies, just be careful as the chef either doesn't know anything about allergies and/or his distraction along with his obsession with profit overruled his conscience...

If you're English you'd better speak brilliant French as no quarter is given. The menu is hand written, but printed!? on a board. The text is too small to read easily with indistinct characters making translating it a real task, especially when you're being hassled to make a choice. The offering we chose was the oysters followed by monkfish and then cheese. Oysters were OK but not the best, monkfish again was OK but lacking in real flavour and the portion size was closer to a starter than a main course. The cheese was again OK but tiny pieces. If it wasn't for the copious amounts of bread we'd have gone elsewhere afterwards to eat a decent meal. Overall poor value for money really don't recommend. Try Le Clos Normand in Martin Eglise as a comparison, chalk...

Bonjour, lieu visité il y a quelques jours dans le cadre d'un verre en terrasse. Terrasse située sur une jolie place avec vue sur la baie. Nous commandons un verre de vin et un diabolo menthe. Pas de limonade, la serveuse nous propose un schweppes à la place de la limonade, nous validons. Le schweppes arrivent sans la menthe, ce n'est pas grave cela peut arriver. Nous commandons également une assiette "apéritive" de crevettes. Je demande à la serveuse si les crevettes sont servies avec de la mayonnaise, elle me répond "non". Je suis surprise mais bon je ne m'attarde pas et confirme la commande. Nous réglons l'addition. La serveuse arrive avec l'assiette de crevettes et une mayonnaise au curry, je reste perplexe mais il s'agit d'une bonne surprise ! Je me penche alors sur l'assiette et là énorme déception. Je vois de minuscules crevettes, je n'avais jamais vu ça, je ne savais même pas que cela pouvait se vendre (ou bien alors décortiquées). Toute une aventure pour les décortiquer. Qui plus est : pas de serviettes, pas de rince doigts, pas d'assiettes pour mettre les coques. J'utilise un kleenex, la situation est grotesque. Je regarde les tables voisines, ils disposent bien de serviettes. Nous ne comprenons pas la situation. Mon ami souhaite quitter les lieux, ce que nous aurions dû faire. La façon dont on nous a traité n'est absolument pas correcte. Et l'assiette de crevettes, je ne comprends toujours pas, celle-ci nous a quand même coûté la somme de 15€. Il s'agissait de notre première sortie à St Valery cela nous a refroidi. Par la suite, nous avons trouver de chouettes adresses pour...