That surprises me. We generally enjoyed the food when we were out there. We stayed in 4 places - Motteville (where else?), Honfluer, one place near Mont St Michel and a couple of nights in Rouen. Breakfast in all of those was what you would expect in France - bread, cheese, ham, cereals, croissants etc and as well as that, one place served us two hot dishes. One savoury, one sweet. The savoury one is best described as a courgette crumble and the sweet an apple pie. For lunch most days we had something from a boulangerie or a snack in a café. In Mont St Michel, the hotel owner asked us where we were eating that night and when we said we didn’t know he asked us if we would like like to eat somewhere cheap or would we like an 'experience'. As it was our anniversary we said we'd like an experience and he phoned the chef directly and booked us a table in his restaurant. It was marvellous and the whole meal, three courses with wine came to around €100 which I didn’t think bad for what we had. In Honfluer, the hotel owner told us NOT to eat in any of the harbour side restaurants as they are not that great, expensive and just for tourists. She suggested a couple of places a few streets back when we booked the room which we looked up online before we went and she booked us a reservation in one of them. Again, a great meal which I think cost around €90. We made the mistake in Rouen of going into a restaurant around the town square and that wasn’t so nice - a drink each and a thin, overcooked steak and thrice fried chips, not even a hint of salad to dress the meal and that wasn’t so nice. Didn’t have a starter, didn’t have a dessert, came to €55. Money wasted in my mind. Of course, we were on holiday and only for 5 nights, one of those our anniversary so we weren’t too worried about the price of things but things would definitely have been different if we were younger, going for longer and taking teenagers!
We found that restaurants generally didn’t open until 7.00 and closed at 10.00. Last time we were out there touring, around 15 years ago, we found that restaurants, especially in rural areas, only opened for two or three nights per week. We heard that if they opened for more nights, they were taxed more heavily. That’s what we were told at the time - don’t know if things have changed as we weren’t doing rural this time.
) fish shell fish & Sushi was really good. So much choice.
