Restaurant Brasserie de la mer — Restaurant in Calais

When we visit Calais, we usually dine at Oh Mouettes and have never been disappointed. However they are closed on Wednesday. We had a walk and looked at the menu of the Brasserie de la Mer which seemed inviting. We were seated promptly, it was early evening and not many tables occupied. Waitress took drinks and menu order in a reasonable timeframe. My wife had the menu Capitaine, I just had the steak bavette with roquefort sauce. My wife's fish soup arrived quite promptly and she was very pleased with it. The main courses however took a long time to arrive even though there seemed to be plenty of staff and the restaurant was quiet. both my wife's Dos fish was dry and my steak which I ordered cooked medium rare was well overdone and dry. Both dishes were below average and any chain steakhouse could done better with my steak. The fries accompanying though were very good as was my wife's dessert. Unfortunately, 3 waiting staff seemed too busy chatting to each other around the desk to clear our main course plates so I had to request that they did so after waiting for twenty minutes. All in all underwhelming and not...

Blatant racial discrimination. We were not escorted to our table. After sitting without any menus or meaningful acknowledgment for over two minutes, I had to ask the waitress, who was cleaning a table, for some menus. She preceded to clean a further two tables before bringing our menus. We watched all other patrons get offered complimentary bread, we literally got peanuts.

After a lacklustre meal (avoid the scallops like the plague), I simply queried why we had been charged tax twice, as I did know if the service charge was automatically added, (and if it was, we did not want to pay it). The waitress then had the audacity to turn to our neighbouring table to have a chat about our bill... very unprofessional! There were a number of other suble gestures that made us feel unwelcomed, ridiculed and showed, what I believe, Brasserie de la Mer's far right stance. At £50 per head, we'll be taking our money elsewhere while in France...

We were here on a Saturday afternoon for lunch. Wanted to have mussels and the waitress suggested the cream and garlic one.

I love mussels the French style. Also the spicy version from back home. But this one, dint have much garlic flavour as I would have liked it. Would have liked the one with white wine I felt. Haddock fillet with rice and salad was really yumm.

Desserts on my boy’s insistence had to choose the three flavoured icecream. Was a disappointment. But they did have crème brûlée and Panacotta on the menu and I’m sure they would have been nicer.

We sat in the closed terrace. Was clean and busy. The waitresses dint really speak much English, but was able to communicate. There was some waiting time after order and also to order dessert. Don’t expect the fine dining experience and the waiters checking on you. You have to wait and call them to...