LE COMPTOIR DE LA TOURRAQUE
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First, we are attracted by his forthcoming presuture. Then we pass the front door and we're convinced we've made the right choice. A cozy room, beautifully decorated, complemented by a vaulted cellar in the more intimate basement. Nicolas and Thomas have been officiating for more than five years in Old Antibes and their excellent reputation is no longer to be done. The kitchen is inventive and designed solely with fresh products from the market. It's a little bit of grandmother's recipes updated by the chef's creativity. Specialties: Sprinkler eggs and its wet-liver mouths, counter lamb, bluefin tuna crisp, white chocolate foam verrine and strawberry coulis.
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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 !
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.