Café de Peney — Restaurant in Satigny

Well-known restaurant were we as group met to enjoy our annual lunch repas gourmand. The restaurant is located in the campagne with parking close by in the neighbourhood. The restaurant served for us as vegetarians, a special meal that was very nicely presented and had good tastes, but the quantity served was rather insufficient to provide for lunch. See photo with spread around vegetables and a small stuffed tomato with a vegan patty.

Partly this is due to serving a vegan meal instead of a vegetarian meal that also would include eggs and milk products like cheese that would have given us more substance. Upon our request, we were offered some extra boiled vegetables and mashed potatoes.

The starter salad was of a good quantity and lightly seasoned with wasabe and tasted delicious.

The meal was accompanied by a nicely pairing local red wine.

It was a nice place to enjoy lunch, but the vegetarian offerings need some more finetuning to deserve a better rating that is given by the meat eaters visiting...

I'll explain why I gave 3 out of 5 stars. Let's start with the fact that the food is tasteless. There is no salt, no pepper, no seasoning of any kind. There were 6 of us at the table and everyone said the same thing. Some did not eat at all, others ate because they were still hungry. We waited a very long time for our food. A very long time. This is unacceptable in such a restaurant. The waiters are few as always, they don't have time to run all over the room, so any service is out of the question. You can't call them or they forget to bring what they asked for. And they admit it out loud. In a word, the place is not worth the money. Not the service, not the food. And as for the loudness , I'm speechless. It's quieter in any cafeteria. The waiters behind the bar were very loudly putting out the dishes. I think it was an absolute disrespect to the guests of the restaurant. But apparently they haven't even heard of...

It's perfectly lovely to sit on the terrace in the shade on a warm August lunchtime and linger over lunch with an old friend. You could do worse than order the daily lunchtime set menu; it's pretty good value for this part of the world. On the day of our visit we had the perfect summery starter of chilled dorade ceviche in a creamy coconut and lime sauce, slow-cooked lamb - which could have done with a little longer in its hay box; it was a touch chewy - with new potatoes and a dessert which though startlingly green, was a winning combination of pistachio and cherries. A bit too sweet maybe, but plates were...