Au Bord de l’Eau — Restaurant in Nérac

We love this little place. Cheerful, reasonably priced and surprisingly good for what initially looks like a typical canal quick stop-by cafe/bar. A perfect place if you're a burger and chips person (I'm not normally but I do like their burgers - all home made with good quality fresh ingredients) and their other dishes are rather good too - nice sea-food salads/healthy options, fresh fish and good solid regional dishes - all generous portions. Local friends say that they do a great fish and chips dish (in ale batter) on a Friday. They have recently expanded and renovated the interior and toilet areas which are now perfectly decent. The owner/chef is very friendly, and, contrary to another review on here, the young French server works well (she doesn't speak English so if you don't make any effort to speak even a little basic French then I can imagine you may run into a couple of communication difficulties). A lovely spot by the canal on a sunny day in a pretty, covered terrace for a light lunch with decent wine - perfect! I will certainly be a regular here and bring my visiting...

Worst meal I have ever had, had entrecôte steak, specifically stated no blood at all, in all I had to send it back to be cooked more three times and it was still raw, at that point I had lost my appetite having not even eaten one bit. My wife’s steak (ordered medium) was raw to the point it was cold inside (a good vet could have brought them back to life). On paying for the meal, we were offered no discount, only excuses. Having paid the full amount we left, never to...

Lower your expectations as you enter. Every time the server (co-owner?) came to our table it was as if we were interrupting her otherwise important day.

Toilets are pretty disgusting. No hand towels and an almost empty loo roll and no spares. The burger was way overpriced for what it is. If you don’t order the menu du Jour it is as it you are imposing on them. Business is falling in their laps and they seem cranky to...