Chez Christophe — Restaurant in Tralee Municipal District

To summarise very average, overcooked food and overpriced.

I ate here with a friend as we were cycling up the west coast of Ireland. The staff were friendly and the atmosphere was nice. They were even helpful with somewhere to put our bikes.

I booked a table for 21:00 and it took until about 21:20 for our food order to be taken. By this time they had switched off the pizza oven and seemingly missing half the sides.

We ordered prawn cocktail and goats cheese to start, and a fillet steak and burger for mains.

The goats cheese starter was nice, the prawn cocktail was a fairly generic overpriced starter.

When the burger and steak came the burger was mostly mass of overcooked ground meat and the medium steak came well done. It felt like we were just being fobbed off because they were looking to shut soon. The chips were nice.

No one bothered to ask how the food was or to check how we were doing.

We ate it without being able to get it fixed. When I went to pay at the end after we finished our meal, we were finally asked how the food was and told our honest opinion. The lady at the counter looked a bit shocked but no sorry or discount was offered for the poor mains.

I wouldn't really recommend...

It was only mediocre. I rang earlier in the day and Christophe assured me they catered for coeliacs. They had no GF crackers for the French cheese or GF bread. These can be bought locally! They could tweek the dishes by leaving out half of it but most of the menu wasn't suitable for coeliacs really. I ordered a side of veg and it never came neither did the staff. Reckon there was a 40 minute window where we were left to our own devices! We each had a steak and chips. Steak quite gristley but cooked perfectly. Chips gorgeous. Side salad waste of plate space! All that said €35 a head for 3 glasses of wine and a big chips and a steak. I felt it was good value 😀😀 Lighting very crude needs...

Perfect date night. Walked in 3mins before they opened and they were accommodating to sit us. We ordered from early bird menu and it has a decent selection. The goat cheese salad tasted fantastic. The pâté was okay, could be plated nicer tho. The beef was mediocre, I couldn’t get that rich and deep beef flavour. Chicken was nice with the touch of onion relish. The timing of the food was perfect, we didn’t had to wait long. Our servers were great, asked us how’s our food after every course. Had a bit of issue when they served our dessert with a mint chocolate ice cream but in the menu it says raspberry sorbet. I pointed it out to our server and she nicely took it back and change the ice...