Auberge du pêcheur — Restaurant in Calvi

We reserved a table here in advance having read a mention on the Michelin guide. As soon as we walked through the fish shop - owned and run by the father of the restaurant owner, a true passionate fisherman family - and enter the garden we felt a warm and familiar vibe yet elegant and charming.

The owner is a master of hospitality: he welcomed us explaining the kitchen philosophy, their fishing technique which preserves the fish taste and texture and is respectful towards the animal (ikejime).

Big sized fish such as tuna and swordfish are the heroes of the menu. We ordered the tataki and the sushi to start, then tuna steak (my personal highlight) and the fish soup. Everything was wonderful, taste, color, everything.

Definitely our best...

A beautiful and modest restaurant from michelin guide, where you can have delicious sea food (in a silent backyard) away from the crowds in St Florent. Corsica is not short of great sea food but this restaurant was our favourite and we look forward to coming back. The chef is japanese and the fresh sea food is served in japanese style but also influenced by some mediterranean spirit. For the quality of the food / size of the dishes, the prices were reasonable: we had a shared appetizer, 2 fish main dishes, dessert, wine, coffee, if I remember right the invoice was somewhere in between 120-130 eur. The garden is beautiful and silent, tables are disinfected, white table clothes and flowers, the...

We enjoyed our meal here, but felt that the main courses were a little too refined and masked the flavour of the fish.

We not anti fusion cooking, but when you've got amazing fresh fish, we feel you should be able to taste that and not too many other flavours.

That said the fish soup was incredible and the tuna and fois gras was different in a good way, which works well together.

The service was excellent from start to finish and the wine options...