Restaurant Le Vieux Honfleur — Restaurant in Lisieux

Pretty good food - the dishes were well made and cooked if somewhat lacking conviction with some weird lapses. Surely the émietté de crabe deserves to be seasoned with lime or at least lemon? Surely the risotto should not be entirely unsalted? Yes of course I can add salt but it is coarse salt and is way too overpowering for additional salting. The staff are not welcoming and are extremely stiff and sour-looking. Yes Queen Elizabeth II ate here on 7 June 2004, but that was then. You can relax now. Speaking of which, I am wondering if Her Majesty used the facilities? I doubt it as they were up a narrowest staircase ever. So, please do not be parsimonious with the truth: your restaurant is not fully accessible. For eating yes (while the cold wind from the port freezes your ankles but whatever) but for bathroom services, it is not accessible. No one is asking for miracles - just be truthful. And salt the...

We had a pleasant enough meal at Le Vieux Honfleur, it's not the first time we have eaten there, but the thinking was, that the restaurant is at least predictably acceptable. The staff are helpful and speak excellent English to support my very imperfect French. Both meals were fine but not exceptional. We both had a main course and dessert together with sharing a half bottle of a Sancerre red. However when you consider the €114 (ex gratuity) it was just too expensive for the meal. The location is superb and you have to accept that you are also paying to eat in that setting. It may be that we will even eat there again knowing that both the food and the bill and the view are all...

Food was great but service was appalling. The waiter was extremely rude and dismissive. We made a booking a month before visiting and we then confirmed the booking as requested the day before. Once we arrived, the waiter immediately said that he couldn’t find the booking on the system and refused to give us a table despite the restaurant being approximately 2/3 empty. Only after complaining for five minutes and showing a screenshot of the booking confirmation, he reluctantly gave us a table. Without the screenshot we would have not got a table and would have been left with no option as all other restaurants were full. Extremely poor...