L'Agneau à la Braise — Restaurant in Bordeaux

The worst restaurant i ate at in 16 days here in Bordeaux. The prices are really high for the portions. I ordered a dozen escargot and it was 16 euros for shells (1 was actually empty, but we didn't want to be "those clients" and point it out. Then, i got the cous de grenouilles: 6 tini-tiny frog legs with some sort of sauce (sauce was decent), a cucumber slice and a pomelo slice 16 EUROS. Ok, i was pretty excited to savour those, i wanted to eat them as a child, so ok...lets talk about othe things. I ordered steak with foie gras: 180 grams at most of not-so-tender beef cooked well (rare as i like it), 3 tiny potatoes and some vegetables. Vegetables was good, beef meh, potatoes meh, foie gras was good. The problem is that when the other people at my table were eating, i was waiting cus the waiter served me the wrong plate (it happens, i was a waiter once, so nopro about that). The real problem was the WATER: it tasted like absolute garbage, and it had some "floating things" that i'm scared as hell to know what it was.... The cost of some s*itty water? 4 EUROS. With 4 euros i want at least a bottled water, i'm not asking for Perrier! I decided not to order desserts, but the other people at my table did and they were pretty good they said. Dunno. I'm a chef, not to be petty, but this restaurant sucked. They even had a broken card reader, we waited 30 minutes to pay, and we did it by old, icy cold cash. I dont usually carry it around, but fortunately i had some stashed somewhere on me just to have them in case. SEVERELY OVERRATED! With 61 euros i could have got so much better food here...

Amazing value for money restaurant with very good food, cooked virtually in front of you (you can see the chef working on the charcoal grill). We had the salmon and the grilled leg of lamb, each cooked well with a lovely serve of (most welcome) vegetables - small 'dutch' potatoes cooked just right and a melange of carrot, zuccini and onion. The lamb in particular was excellent and cooked 'just right' at medium-rare as requested. Good fresh chunky & crusty bread included, in stark contrast to the very stale bread offering the night before at a different restaurant charging twice as much for a meal. Here, we got honest food, decent dessert (creme brulee) and nice coffee to finish. House red was adequate. We would come back. Music was a pleasant quiet soundtrack of mellow songs from the 50s and 60s, eg Nat King Cole and the like. Just enough in the background to avoid that awkward 'silence' if...

Situated on a corner of a side street in the old town (of Bordeaux) this cosy restaurant is well worth a visit. The menu is small but interesting and is centred around steaks and grilled lamb with some seafood options. An English menu is available if needed. The wine list was as you would expect extensive. The service was friendly but floundered a bit when the restaurant became busy and the wait for food was lengthy but worth it. Prices for the menu were in my opinion slightly on the expensive side but the quality was good- this restaurant is well worth a visit especially if you like grilled...