LA REGATE - Douarnenez

Cet endroit juste en face de mon hôtel. La carte est mixte et nous nous sommes concentrés principalement sur les fruits de mer. Excellent service, bonne sélection de vins et nourriture au-dessus de la moyenne. La plupart des goûts sont satisfaits. Excellent et recommandé !!

Excellente nourriture de la plus haute qualité à des prix décents. Nous avons mangé des huîtres, des langoustines et des poissons de toutes sortes, mais le steak était également très bon. L'ambiance était calme mais il peut y avoir beaucoup de monde alors réservez. Le personnel et le chef étaient excellents et j'ai noté l'accès aux fauteuils roulants. L'endroit entier est à côté de la plage et un endroit idéal pour terminer une bonne journée. Le coût est d'environ 108 euros pour trois personnes pour la nourriture étoilée Michelein - ça vaut vraiment le coup.

Menu looked OK, but food rather disappointing. Steak good, with chips, but had to ask to get the 'salad' that should have come with it. Sea bream was a tiny fillet with a tasteless herb sauce and an aubergine mush parcel, OK but not good value for money at 17 euros. Like another recent review, we were surprised that the waitress asked if we had reserved and had to check if there was a space in the almost empty restaurant. She was also keen to speak to us in English and talked us through the menu in a condescending way - we can understand French menus and come to France for a French experience. Wine and beer good. All in all it was OK, but was not a great evening and not good value for money.

We visited this restaurant in November, as we had last year. It was one of the few restaurants open in Douarnenez on a midweek evening. The staff spoke to us in English even though we had a reasonable understanding of the menu. It is in a lovely location near the beach at Plage de Sable Blanc, and they specialise in fish and seafood. Well worth a visit.

Affronted that we had not made a reservation despite it being Wednesday in mid October and there being no other diners, the miserable waitress somehow managed to find a table in this huge soulless restaurant. The worst fish soup in France, very thin, unseasoned and with an unhealthy stale fish aroma was not a good start. My clams were at least edible but a mere 9 specimens in salty brown liquid seemed rather economic given that we had watched the locals gathering them at low tide by the bucket load. The sea bream fillet was cooked correctly but served with an utterly flavour-free mush of glass noodles and beansprouts which tasted of a tainted frying pan. My fillet de boeuf was far from seignant (rare) being charred and by French standards 'bien cuit'. It was served with a mystery tasteless veg accompaniment that may have been turnip. The desserts were dreadful dry factory produced things the colour of chocolate but no flavour apart from sweet. By far the worst dining experience anywhere in recent memory - avoid at all costs.

La Regate is primarily a fish and seafood restaurant, where everything is fresh and imaginatively cooked without going to extremes. Breaking the fishy theme, I had guinea fowl, which was first class. The set menus are good value, as is the small but well-chosen wine list, and the staff are chatty, relaxed and welcoming.

On a quiet off-season night out we walked in La Regate. The nice waitress spoke English very well (something not so common in France) and we were offered the choice of an English or French menu. We ordered the crab dish and the homemade foie gras. Both of which were nice starters. The main course was especially good. I had the catch of the day (tuna and monkfish) and my wife had the lamb dish. The presentation of the food was nice, it tasted very good and service was very friendly and alert. Although it was a very quiet night, we had a very nice evening.

Whilst English obviously wasn't the proprietors best subject at school he tried hard and made us most welcome ! The food wasn't high cuisine but was perfectly adequate , especially the nougat ice cream. Bagpipe music not to my taste !