La Langouste chez HONORÉ — Restaurant in Pointe-à-Pitre

We have been to many other Caribbean islands, but this was our first trip to Guadeloupe and we were happy to start our vacation at Chez Honore because the location, at the far eastern end of the island, was very nice, quiet and easy to get around. Chez Honore is down a quiet street and surrounded by fields and forest. The hotel itself is a collection of variously sized cottages around a small, but nice swimming pool. Our cottage (Villa 2) was sparsely furnished, but very clean, functional and complete. Beds were quite firm (hard) and bathrooms mostly modern and up to date. Imagine you were borrowing your uncle's Adirondack camp or Cape Cod cottage. And imagine that your uncle isn't married and doesn't sweat the details too much, but still you are in a great spot very afford-ably.||||We were two families of 5 getting the cousins together for bonding. It was nice to have everyone together in one cottage rather than splitting up like at a regular hotel. Our villa, Villa 2, has 3 downstairs bedrooms and an upstairs loft so a variety of extended family groups would be accommodated very nicely. I believe they have one villa that is even larger.||||On awkward thing for us was that the three downstairs bedrooms had A/C, the upstairs loft room did not. A/C wasn't needed for the heat, we actually would have preferred to open the window and listen to the ocean breezes, but Guadeloupe doesn't believe in window screens so the teenagers in the loft were unhappy with the mosquitoes. This same problem was everywhere on the island...buildings open to the outdoors in big and small ways, and just enough mosquitoes to be annoying.||||The large and beautiful beach is 200 meters away across a dirt road, so you can hear it, but not see it unless you walk on over. The three times we visited the beach, we found it, in late December to be too rough for swimming, but we understand that is weather dependent and day-by-day. The one day we didn't visit the beach at Chez Honore, we heard later that 30 people were all happily swimming and snorkeling. Many people come to this beach from other parts of the island. Chez Honore hosts a large restaurant that had plenty of beach-goers each lunchtime. Many of us walked along the government sponsored beach trail that goes for miles in this area. We didn't do the whole thing, but like the part we did do.||||As far as we could tell the restaurant wasn't open at breakfast. The first morning several loaves of bread were dropped off at our cottage, but no more was heard about that. The cottage had a little kitchen area that was useful and supplying our own breakfast from a grocery store was straightforward. We enjoyed sitting out on our outdoor porch table mornings and evenings. We found that although there was bedding for up to 14 (we were 10) there was only seating in the living room for 6.||||WiFi was free, but weak at the villa and we never did get it to work. It would connect but wouldn't communicate. We found out later some of our internet settings may not be ideal for French oriented systems.||||So in summary, Chez Honore is a nice simple setup next to a beautiful Caribbean beach. Think clean and useful, not luxury and extravagant, and you'll be...

Cela pourrait vous paraître bizarre de voir que je mets une étoile pour le restaurant la Langouste et je mets quatre étoiles pour le service. Mes enfants, ma filleule, son enfant de quatre ans et moi avons décidé de manger dans ce restaurant. A notre entrée dans l'établissement, nous nous sommes retrouvés devant une dame qui donnait l'impression de ne pas être à sa place, sans sourire, à tel point que nous avons demandé à l'autre serveuse, qui était des plus agréables, à qui nous avions affaire et c'est à ce moment que nous avons compris que cette personne était la femme du propriétaire. Elle vient prendre la commande sans s'inquiéter de l'enfant de quatre ans qui nous accompagnait, même lorsque la mère de l'enfant lui demandait de bien vouloir prendre la commande de l'enfant avant la nôtre. C'est encore l'autre serveuse qui a été appelée par la mère de l'enfant, qui lui a apporté sa boisson et rapidement son repas. J'ai commandé un poisson grillé avec riz et haricots rouges, sans oignons, parce que je dis à la femme du propriétaire que je ne mange pas d'oignons. Celle-ci me propose, en plus de mon riz/ haricots rouges, une part de gratin de banane jaune, mon fils, lui, commande une fricassée de lambis à 40 euros (ce qui me surprend, parce que 40 euros pour du lambis c'est au moins 500 gr de lambis), ma fille, une fricassée de chatrou et ma filleule, un pavé de poisson. A l'arrivée des plats, les frites de la gamine étaient super froides, mon gratin de bananes jaunes que je n'avais pas demandé mais que l'on m'avait proposé était truffé d'oignons accompagné d'un petit poisson appelé Bourse (très bon poisson), la portion de lambis de mon fils ne dépassait pas les 200gr. Nous avons fait la remarque, toujours à la même personne, qui nous a expliqué que le lambis coûtait excessivement cher en ce moment, ce qui me paraît improbable. Sans argument, elle nous a tourné le dos avec le chien de la maison, sous les bras, alors qu'elle est en plein service. La cerise sur le gâteau, l'enfant qui nous accompagnait a eu une envie d'aller aux toilettes, a essuyé un refus sous prétexte qu'il n'y avait pas d'eau dans l'établissement et cela sans jamais nous avertir à notre arrivée. C'est encore la gentille serveuse et un des fils du propriétaire qui nous a proposé une solution, quand nous avions décidé de partir sans entamer le repas et payer les jus que nous avions consommés. Ce jour 15 juillet 2025, j'ai eu une très mauvaise expérience dans ce restaurant. J'ai payé 157,00 euros pour un repas et un service qui ne valait pas 100,00 euros, mais pour l'autre serveuse qui a été professionnelle jusqu'au bout, nous avons honoré notre facture et même félicité...

One of the most strange and bad experiences I've ever had in a restaurant. Arrived just wanting a drink and snacks to be confronted with a member of their staff insisting that we ordered full meals of lobster, which we didn't want. Under a lot of pressure we politely relented and ordered a plate of grilled fish for myself. This only seemed to annoy her further and she insisted my wife and young son needed to order more. At this point we just got up and paid for the drinks and frites we'd already had and left to the sound of the staff all angrily screaming at each other in the kitchen. All this time we were their only...