Auberge Du Vert Mont — Restaurant in Dunkirk

This review is for the restaurant/dining aspect of the guesthouse. For the lodging aspect, do check out the review on the other Googlemap listing.

They only have a tasting menu, with beverage pairing and optional add-on for an extra dish.

If you are there for only one meal, I would highly recommend you to go for the full works!

I had the fortune of dining there for two consecutive evenings, so I went for the full works for the first night and then just the basic tasting menu for the second.

I really appreciate the team for providing a very interesting non-alcoholic beverage pairing due to my allergy, as well as to change most of the item menus for my second night, so that I did not eat the same things again. I felt like I had a totally new menu.

The cuisine for me was innovative and places a lot of emphasis on the ingredients themselves, where they came from and how best to showcase them. In absence of some commonly used ingredients (e.g. pepper, because they are not locally produced in the region), the flavours of the dishes were never compromised, but instead allowed to come to the foreground. This allowed me to view the ingredients in a whole new light and savour their 'original' flavours.

The interiors and ambience were welcoming and cosy. This was further accentuated by the service team, who were friendly and attentive. They were also ready to explain the dishes in English when they realised that my dining partner could not understand French. When one of the service staff did not realise that, she hurriedly came back to our table to re-explain in English when one of her colleagues told her that not everyone understood French at our table.

Overall a great...

We stayed here to be close to Ypres as we were planning a visit to the battlefields of Somme, and this hotel was very close by. When we arrived the place was completely full of cars, double parked up the road, on the grass in front of the hotel. We found out there was a festival going on to celebrate the restaurant being awarded a Michelin star, which of course is excellent! We eventually managed to find the owner amongst the crowds and he showed us to our room, which was in the roof space (room 7). It was a pleasant good sized room, but unfortunately the smell from the bathroom was very disturbing. We put this down to the drains, as it became significant worse of running the water in the sink and flushing the loo! There was no window in the bathroom, which didn't help! The shower head holder was broken, so you had to hold the shower in your hand whilst showering!! The shelf over the sink was hanging on by the last screw, so if you put anything on it, it fell into sink.... The TV also failed to work, even after changing batteries in the remote etc.... ||||Unfortunately sleep was hard to get due to loud music from the hotel, and I think it was alomost 2.30am before the noise abated slightly.||||Breakfast however was excellent. Good choice of cheese, bread, jams etc.... Very nice start to the day. We did mention the smell of the drains to the owner along the problems with the tv. He basically replied with "I know" !! Not too sure why he doesn't get the problems sorted if he knows! Its a shame, because otherwise the hotel is very nice, but this smell really does let...

We stayed here to be close to Ypres as we were planning a visit to the battlefields of Somme, and this hotel was very close by. When we arrived the place was completely full of cars, double parked up the road, on the grass in front of the hotel. We found out there was a festival going on to celebrate the restaurant being awarded a Michelin star, which of course is excellent! We eventually managed to find the owner amongst the crowds and he showed us to our room, which was in the roof space (room 7). It was a pleasant good sized room, but unfortunately the smell from the bathroom was very disturbing. We put this down to the drains, as it became significant worse of running the water in the sink and flushing the loo! There was no window in the bathroom, which didn't help! The shower head holder was broken, so you had to hold the shower in your hand whilst showering!! The shelf over the sink was hanging on by the last screw, so if you put anything on it, it fell into sink.... The TV also failed to work, even after changing batteries in the remote etc.... ||||Unfortunately sleep was hard to get due to loud music from the hotel, and I think it was alomost 2.30am before the noise abated slightly.||||Breakfast however was excellent. Good choice of cheese, bread, jams etc.... Very nice start to the day. We did mention the smell of the drains to the owner along the problems with the tv. He basically replied with "I know" !! Not too sure why he doesn't get the problems sorted if he knows! Its a shame, because otherwise the hotel is very nice, but this smell really does let...