Au bord de l'eau — Restaurant in Narbonne

This is a great quirky tiny cafe overlooking the canal du midi and countryside by the bridge at Paraza. The owner is a lovely young French woman who does the food preparation herself. This is not a full restaurant but you and children can eat very well here. There are various salads, croque monsieur as well as burgers, chips etc. What makes it special is the attention to detail in the food preparation and freshness of the food with subtle additions of herbs and fruit to salad for example. There are also desserts and cakes which are delicious - we had pears in red wine slow cooked to a recipe of her grandmother - great - you can see why this recipe persisted! It well deserves to be...

Our family group of seven enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Au Bord de L’eau. Cathy immediately makes you feel welcome with her warm smile and charming greeting. She is the life and soul of this pleasant canal-side eatery, and was comfortably attentive throughout the meal, always happy to provide explanations of the dishes and wines. The food? Not to be missed! Cathy is rightly proud of her grandmother’s influence in the dishes, sauces, and cakes she offers. Particular highlights for us were the Croque Monsieur, and the outstanding burgers. Thank you, Cathy, for making it such a special evening. Would highly recommend to passing canal boats, locals, and tourists to this magical...

Diabolical. Four people, 165 Euros I had to have a sandwich post meal. Monk fish, and every other main, was served with vine tomatoes and a microscopic amount of veg. I'll not neglect to mention the fancy foam! Zero carbohydrates - utter nonsense "we don't have a frier".....so how about dauphinoise, roast, mashed.....you said it was Mediterranean apparently....so throw some patatas bravas at the very least.

Rubbish, how on earth you can spend that kind of money and come away hungry - good food, great service but diabolical...