Vieux Four

Introduction:

Hello again hope you had a nice Easter and I’m in France to review the Vieux Four

Service:

Well the table setting was good and the napkins were beautifully folded but in the corner of room there was a girl playing on her laptop and the waitresses were friendly so for service it’s going to be a 6/10

Starter:

For starter I had fish pâté with a garnish of salad. The pâté was alright but there was too much jelly and the salad was nice and crispy so overall it’s a 5/10

Main:

My main was steak haché   and the vegetable of the day which was sortié potatoes. The steak haché soft was perfectly done and well seasoned also the potatoes were lovely and crispy on the outside and in the inside. So I give the main 9/10

Dessert:

I had vanilla ice cream and strawberry sorbet. The sorbet was flowing with fruitiness and with the vanilla it makes it yummier. So I give the dessert 8/10

So any way I had a nice time and the overall score is 28 and that’s a premier.Bye!  

The Bull and Swan

Happy New Year.  Yesterday I went to a pub/restaurant called the Bull and Swan in Stamford, England. It was a nice old fashioned house and the best bit was the outside archway linking the pub and restaurant.

Service8/10

When I first walked into the restaurant it looked lovely. At the end of the room there was an old log fire place and loads of pictures with beautiful frames around them and the tables were set perfectly and the staff were really helpful. The toilets were really nice with beautiful soaps and tiles.

Main 10/10

Normally I have a starter but yesterday I went strait onto my main. For the main Corse I had a goats cheese and red onion tart with chips (that I ordered separately). The tart was beautiful it’s presentation was magnificent with a balsamic vinegar sauce drizzled on the plate. The goats cheese was lovely and the tart base was really crispy, I adored the chips because they were hand cut and they tasted lovely.

Desert 7/10

For dessert I had white chocolate ice cream the ice cream was good. And the presentation was good with a little bunch of sugared redcurrants.

Over all it was a great restaurant I would recommend it to the highest standard so the final score is 25 but I think it should be luxury because I didn’t have a starter.

Bistrot Du Boucher - Arras

As you know I’m a normal child and I don’t go to restaurants everyday so when I was travelling through the north of France we stopped in Arras where we went to Bistrot Du Boucher. From the outside it looked quite nice but when inside it all changed. The walls were tea stained wallpaper and the table settings was a bit naff but the seasonal decorations – Christmas, were good because there wasn’t too much but they also looked a little tired.

Me at Bistrot du Boucher

Service 5/10 – They were quite friendly when we arrived. When we sat down the lady asked if we wanted any welcome drinks and we said yes and I got a coke and a pot of snacks for free and I thought that that was quite good. The toilets were quite nice and there were posh mirrors and it appeared quite new. When I ordered our proper drinks it took 5min 5sec  to get the drinks

Starter 5/10 – For the starter I ordered Goats Cheese on toast. The presentation was poor because it was just two bits of toast with goats cheese melted on it with no little garnish  on the side. But the taste was quite nice. The toast had a good crunch and the goats cheese has a good soft inside.

Main 6/10  - For the main I had seared salmon served with chips. But no greens I had no greens in the starter and now no greens in the main. But the salmon was lovely it was nicely cooked with seasoning but the chips were a letdown they were the frozen ones that get from the supermarket.

Desert  7/10 - Lastly for the desert I had strawberry and coffee ice cream. The coffee was really nice and strong and the flavour was magnificent and the strawberry was nice and fruity and really scrumptious. But guess what in the coffee and strawberry and ice cream there was a mint leaf. Finally something green!! But I didn’t eat because it was a mint leaf. And the presentation was perfect with two biscuit to go on the side.

Conclusion – overall the food wasn’t that good and if you are going for a posh night out I wouldn’t recommend it to you. So the final score was 23 standard. See you next time.

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La Bonne Famille

Introduction

I went to la Bonne Famille in Sarrazac, that’s in the south of France. It was a nice location to have a restaurant but anyway I hope you enjoy my review.

Service

The service wasn’t that good because when we ordered the starter it took them nearly an hour just for some smoked salmon. The table setting was a bit better even though the knives and forks were like you would get in a school canteen. When I went to the toilet they were fine but I noticed a few tiles were missing. Score: 6/10

Starter

As I said the starter was smoked salmon with a Scottish pancake. The salmon was very nice and it was just the right amount for me to eat. The Scottish pancake was perfect and also it came with a little salad. Score: 9/10

Main Corse

For my main I had steak with mustard sauce, sauté potatoes and turnips.  The steak was to die for, it was cooked so well and when you added  the mustard sauce it became even better . The vegetables were a let down because the sauté potatoes were steamed and they tasted horrible and so did the steamed turnips. Score:7/10

Dessert

For my dessert I had a chocolate Knickerbocker glory. It was delicious with the squirty cream and the chocolate moose and a little scoop of chocolate ice cream. After I had eaten that I did feel a bit sick. Score: 8/10

It was a very nice meal and if you’re wondering is this really on the menu enfant, well it isn’t!  It’s a menu that the kids can choose but it’s made smaller.

The overall score is 30 that means the restaurant is premiere. So it’s a bye from Bertie.

An Explanation of My Ranking System

Let me explain how the ranking system works. There are these 5 ranks, discount, standard, premier, premium and luxury. Luxury is the best and discount is the worst if you have 35-40 points it is luxury, if it is 30-34 it is premium, if it is 25-29 it is premiere, and standard is 20-24 and discount which are the bad restaurants if they are under 20 points. 

So you now know how this scoring system works so you’ll be able to know how good the restaurants are.

Auberge De Cartassac

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Ranking: 36.5/40 - Luxury

When I first entered it looked like a normal standard restaurant but when I saw the dining room it changed completely. The dining tables were set really neatly and there were nice paintings on the wall. We saw some of the people already dining and I thought that the presentation was brilliant so I couldn’t wait to get tucked in to my dinner.

The starter: 9.5
As I was saying the presentation was lovely. The Fois Gras was lovely. It had nice flavouring in it, The toast was perfectly toasted and it felt like Paradise, the lettuce the was beautifully presented and I loved the dressing that went with it. Overall the starter was surprising.

I loved my meal at Auberge De Cartassac

The main: 9
My next course was duck with sauteéd potatoes and the duck was really tender and the sauce that it came with was to die for. The sauteed potatoes were very nice and crunchy and the seasoning was very nice with salt and chives.

The desert: 10
For my dessert I had the best ice cream I had tried in years there was two flavours coffee and caramel. The caramel was so enjoyable it was really covered in flavour it was so nice and the coffee was just the same with really good coffee beans in it and the presentation was perfect.

The service: 8
The service was quite fast between courses and we got loads of refills of bread and water and that was quite nice of them. The tables were set nicely. BUT why it lost two marks is because the toilet wasn’t so good, the tap splashed everywhere and there wasn’t that much space in the toilet.

GUESS WHAT! all this fancy food was in the menu enfant and I thought it was great.

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