L’épuisette Plage — Restaurant in Draguignan

Seeing all the 5 stars reviews, one would truly think this place is a top notch restaurant. And it certainly presents itself as such. But here is what you can expect from a visit to this overhyped establishment: Immediately upon entering the place, our party of 3, including my 2 adult children, were greeted by a hostess and staff who for the most part clearly gave the feeling of not wanting to be there. This can be understandable seeing it was the end of the touristy season, however, when you hype your place as a top place restaurant on the French Riviera, with the accompanying prices, the least you could expect is a smile and good manners. And I am a native French speaker so that wasn’t even about your usual American phobic cliche French attitude. Once seated - which they did even though we hadn’t reserved, both my kids were continuously bumped by the waiters on their way to other tables. We moved our table to give them more space to pass but to no avail. We ordered one appetizer and 3 main courses. The appetizer consisted of raw vegetables with sides of puréed anchovies and some sort of unidentifiable white sauce with absolutely zero taste. Some of the veggies were clearly old, curly and with brown spots. What could have been a beautiful dish with fresh ingredients turned to be a mouthful of old veggies with substandard sauces. The main courses were 2 fish plates and one pulled pork burger. And I have to say that not one of them were even at a substandard level. The pulled pork consisted of dried out pieces of pork slapped onto a bun w a smudge of that same tasteless w beige sauce. My son could not finish it. The “pommes de terre maison” were ok but when my son asked for ketchup (not a sin when you dip some grilled potatoes in them) the waiter barked back “ on est pas au Mac Do ici” translating to: this is not McDonalds here. He got some ketchup in the end but didn’t need the lecture. Totally inappropriate. My fish was dried halibut with a burned crust of prosciutto dressed over reheated mashed potatoes and subpar ratatouille (or some version of it). The other fish plate was a grilled daurade over another version of ratatouille. The nice presentation aside, this plate led my daughter to a serious episode of food poisoning a few hours later. I don’t know what other testament one needs to bring forth the type of food given at this restaurant. To sum it up: Overhyped, pricey terrible food. Terrible service. Good cocktails. To be avoided...

I really wanted to like this place, the restaurant was located in a really sweet area. However, after eating the Daurade dish with a piña colada cocktail, I threw up consistently the whole night. The fish was very dry and drowning in oil. The piña colada was incredibly sugary. One might think this a weird combo of dish and drink, yet I had high hopes (that were very much let down) after reading the reviews beforehand. Normally I am not one to make a comment, but the mix of food that made me throw up and waiters that had treacherous attitude, cannot be left without remark. I was very miserable after eating this meal and now a whole night of my life is wasted as I stayed up until the early morning watching the oily remnants of my meal float in my toilet bowl. I am so sorry to anyone who has also experienced an upset stomach because of this restaurant. Please think twice before making the walk down the dark road (literally) to this restaurant and eating a very...

Let’s start by the beginning. 2cocktails, 1starter, 2 meal, 1 desert. 90€ for two. Way too expensive for what it is.

Cocktails are good. Unfortunately, the waiter took them because one of them was empty, without asking if the second was finished or not. Too bad, the second cocktail was half full but it was too late.

Starter. 17€ for a bruschetta bread (you can buy in any shop) with some chèvre and chorizo. Seriously ?

Meal. Fish was ok. Burger was way too dry.

Desert, not good. Cheesecake apricot. Expect when the desert arrived, it was a jelly cheesecake with figs. Cheesecake tasted like fridge, as if it was frozen before.

At the end, the waiter never took any COVID precautions, talking to us 30cm next to our meals and our faces without any masks.

Not even talking about the fact you don’t see anything while eating. You only have a small light candle for two.

No alcoolgel at the toilet exit.

the only nice thing is the view, and the price is...