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Amazing food, really nice service.

Très bon restaurant, jolie décoration à proximité des remparts d’Antibes. Menu à 44€ avec entrée plat dessert. Poitrine de porc excellente, épaule d’agneau avec purée aurait mérité un peu plus de sauce, très bon dessert. Le tarif des vins élevé. Bref, produits frais, du fait maison mais l’addition est toutefois corsée. 40€ pour le menu aurait été plus raisonnable.

A compact restaurant which has an abundance of character and style with a welcoming atmosphere. Very knowledgeable staff, excellent menu choices for quality food. A very enjoyable experience.

Nous somme venu dîner dans ce restaurant un dimanche soir (rare pour un restaurant de cette qualité).
Le cadre est très agréable, très cozy, authentique.
Le service était impeccable, rien à dire c'était parfait.

La présentation des plats était très belle, très minutieuse.
Les plats étaient bons, j'ai pris un menu comprenant la poitrine de porc fumée 24h, l'épaule d'agneau confite avec sa garniture grand mère, et le dôme au chocolat.
Nous avons tous apprécié les plats en général. Sur la poitrine de porc rien à dire la cuisson était parfaite, la sauce délicieuse et la poire fondante et bien assaisonnée.

Néanmoins, bien que la cuisson de l'épaule était bien, la sauce n'était pour moi pas assez corsée, la note aromatique agneau n'était pas assez présente. Quand je prend un plat à base d'agneau, je m'attend à quelque chose de puissant aromatiquement, et j'ai été un peu déçu sur la sauce de l'épaule. La garniture était cependant bien assaisonnées et rééquilibrait ce léger manque aromatique.

Le dessert était très bien, l'association chocolat / glace coco / meringue était très réussie. Seul léger détail, la coque en chocolat était peu être un tout petit peu épaisse et donc un peu dure à casser à la cuillère.

Très bonne expérience, nous avons très bien mangé.
Je recommande, c'est l'un des meilleurs restaurant des remparts que nous avons fait !

A couple of years ago me and my wife had a lovely dinner in this restaurant, so we were really excited to return there. Today we've had here one of the worst dining experiences I can remember in recent years. In a nutshell:

1. We've waited about 40 minutes to be able to order anything. The waitress mostly ignored us after we were seated. Kind of annoying, but we weren't in a rush and we had fond memories from this restaurant from a couple of years ago. Still, it wasn't a great start.
2. Finally the time to order came and with it - another weird episode! The waitress asked us to pick the wine for our dishes while we still haven't had our aperitif! She was also somewhat pushy on what to order - "we recommend this aperitif, starter, main course, dessert". Normally, I don't mind recommendations, but it didn't feel particularly sincere.
3. Here it gets interesting. Our starters were the recommended shrimp lollipops, which were simply 5 boiled shrimps on a stick, with a bit of decoration and some aioli sauce. It was clear they had been prepared in advance and had been stored in a fridge. Not a big deal, we understand that many things are prepared in advance. My wife made a remark that her shrimps were very cold, almost frozen when the waitress asked if we had liked them, and that she was disappointed by them. A bit later the waitress came back to our table and said she had passed my wife's feedback to the chef, who asked us to leave if we were unhappy with how the food was prepared. (!!!) Supposedly for years everyone liked these "amazing" shrimp and we were the first people to complain about them. At first I couldn't believe what was happening - my wife's feedback wasn't particularly harsh and the waitress's English was quite poor, so I wasn't sure whether she really meant we should leave. We told her that we feel that's no way to treat one's customers and that her attitude was quite rude. She didn't offer any form of apology and we left. Good riddance!

All fond memories of the place have been totally erased at this point. We've traveled all over the world, and have visited quite a few nice restaurants, and we've never been involved in anything remotely close to what happened today. I feel sorry for anyone who's refusing to accept feedback, even if they disagree with it. Antibes is full of great restaurants, so do yourselves a favor and visit one of them, instead of this one.

P.S. If the owner is reading the feedback here I'd advise them to train their staff better when it comes to hospitality and customer centricity. It's not normal to get attacked by the staff when you went to restaurant to have some nice time there. My home country Bulgaria is notorious for bad service in restaurants, but what happened today would put the worst Bulgarian restaurant to shame.