Le Carré d'Herbes — Restaurant in Avignon

Category: Fine Food. This restaurant sits a little off the beaten path in a secluded garden area. Although both are very nice, we chose the livelier indoor dining room over the outside dining area. Outside has retractable glass walls that can turn the outside into inside, and vice versa, but inside has very interesting copper-clad barrel-like structures on the ceiling. Together with subdued lighting and lots of wood, including the ends of wooden wine crates, and two huge golden bird head sculptures with harpie-worthy spiked collars, the dining room has a very warm and comfortable feel, even with the bird heads. We started with a tasty bottle of local red from a very reasonably priced wine list (we prefer to pay less than 40 Euros, or even less than 30 Euros, for restaurant wines). Then the chef surprised us with a very nice amuse bouche: a blini with crawfish and gelee of crawfish bisque. Sarah started with the beautiful plat of pan-fried frogs legs, which were served with a finger bowl. I ordered the duck 🦆 foie gras medallion with chutney, which I enjoyed with both the freshly baked dark bread accompaniment and the lighter table bread. For mains we ordered the risotto, which was beautiful and tasty but needed a protein, and the gorgeous whole sea bream with mushroom 🍄‍🟫 fricassee. Be careful of the bones, which I had no trouble dodging or removing. Service was excellent. YouTube’s...

The food is very good here and the setting was v pleasant - outdoor seating in a shaded area - but the service was a disaster. The waiters were all very nice but it took us one hour from the moment we sat down to actually ordering our food! When the food eventually came it was delicious - good presentation, well cooked, excellent flavours but the experience was spoiled by everything taking so long. Suggestion to restaurant that you hire more people for service and more in the kitchen to get food...

The food was great. I ordered truffle salad and fish. Love both, especially the fish was cooked perfectly with delicate flavor. We were terribly bitten by mosquitoes. My husband left for a while to get sprays right before the main dish arrived (should have asked the waiters for it) and the waiter took the dish back to kitchen and made sure the food is reheated after he came back. The neighborhood has great views and is very nice to walk around...