Planches et Gamelles — Restaurant in Toulon

We had two 28€ menus for dinner. The food was not bad but not great either. Most of our food was very saucy and not so subtle. For starter I got a poached egg with some oriental yoghurt I liked the taste and it was my favourite part of the meal, my companion had a poulpo salad that was flavourful but too much sauce ruined the meal. For main dish we had a overcooked fish swimming in sauce and with an aubergine caviar that was tasteless and a lamb also with too much sauce. For the dessert we had a forgettable Baba with rhum and a chocolate and caramel pie that had nothing special. The service is nice and the place a good local wine selection. I think the ideas for the dishes were good (associating fish and aubergine caviar for instance) but that there is still a lack of mastery regarding the seasoning and...

Visited with a group of 5, + young kid. Only ( and luckily!) had main courses. Not only the food was tastewise rather disappointing, but also the sizes were very small, especially some of the key ingredients were sized to a minimum ( beef filet was 150 g max. and was made medium-done, eventhough I asked medium rare . A scallop main dish had only 2 scallops which then were cut in half. ) Each of those main courses were 29€ !!!! The amuse-guele at the beginning ( marinated tuna ) was tasty and unfortunately the best „dish“ on that evening. The waitress handled our „complaints“ very unprofessional. — We will NOT...

The lobster (the purported “speciality” of this restaurant) was stringy, tough, and overcooked. It was served drowning in a strong sauce with overcooked sliced vegetables. We also ordered several glasses of champagne. Through a translation error, the server brought the glass of champagne with ice. We told them this was wrong and we wanted a normal glass of champagne. They brought back the same wine that was clearly just with the ice strained out - it was weak in flavor and the color indicated it was diluted. There was also no contrition on the part of the lazy server. Tourist trap,...