L'Etoile — Restaurant in Céret

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Amazing!

Victor in the dining room and his partner Philippe in the kitchen provide the best-value, quality and copious meal we have ever had in France!

There are various "formules" - combinations. Basically what it boils down to is that you can have the first course Buffet, the main course Plat du Jour and the dessert for €15.90. Or any two or even just one of the three for a slightly lower price.

Nice clean modern dining room, tables well spaced. Big buffet table. BIIIIIG buffet table - I counted more than 40 items there - see my photo.

All lovely stuff too.

Then there was a choice today of 4 main courses: Kidneys in wine sauce, Poultry in mushroom sauce, Bavette and Roast Lamb. With a choice of 7 different veg. I liked this. Often you can only have the mash with the liver, or only the spinach with the beef. Here you could choose from a list of 7, all of them very tempting.

Then a choice of 4 or 5 puds - Floating islands, Dark chocolate blancmange, Tiramisu, Fromage frais with fruit coulis, and something else that I cannot remember.

There were two main problems here in this restaurant.

Firstly - choosing! Everything sounded so lovely, we wanted it all!

Secondly,eating. Although we deliberately took very little indeed from the buffet, we couldn't manage the very copious main courses and had to leave some.

Paying, however, was no problem at all. 2 meals and wine for €40. What's...

Fast and friendly service, the waiter spoke both French and English with us too which was really kind of him. Food was beautifully presented and really tasty, the flavours were really imaginative. Notably the mango sauce on the prawn salad and the homemade aioli for the steak. Yummy! Atmosphere was warm and welcoming and the prices very reasonable for what we had. Will visit...

Restaurant style Cantine pour les employés (les boites qui sont autour inclus la Mairie/tout les services sociaux /il y a pour toute les boites)Conçu spécialement dans leurs horaires de la pause du travail . Alors le service restauration pour manger est ouvert à partir de 12H00 à 13H00/13H30 c’est tout plié. Et non pas jusqu’à 15 H00 (grosse déception si tu arrive après 13H00 à chercher à manger dans ce resto /quelle honte !) Ne correspond pas aux horaires marqués sur leur site internet.exemple /le vendredi ouvert de 08H00 jusqu’à 23H00 complètement hors du sujet. En sachant que les clients ils notent le restaurant assez souvent /Il ne sera pas mal de vérifier les horaires de Restauration /à moins qu’ils s’en fichent complètement pour eux les restaurant roule comme Cantine pour les...