De La Cale - Villeneuve-sur-Lot

Everything was great! The pleasant setting, the scallop lobster risotto was delicious, and young nice waiters.

The view is pleasant I would have liked the service to be apart from drinking behind the bar it does not do much and the waiting between the dishes and very long sin the meal by itself was good without any lack of cooking

Lovely evening to eat outside and friendly waiter. However the tapas selection (all five) were mostly disappointing, especially for a restaurant supposedly specialising in fish. Seemingly bought-in standard battered calamari and one other fish. Not the freshly prepared fish we were expecting. The prawns fine, and whitebait, but hard to go wrong with. Also were surprised we could not sit and order a drink beforehand as we arrived before our 7.30 booking.

The entrées were fine but the fish soup « maison » tasted more like a mushroom soup. Although « Maison « was announced on the menu, when I said I was disappointed I was told that it was the local fishmonger who had made it (even more surprising that it didn’t taste like fish)!!! The aïoli fish dish was fresh but the accompanying veg was a bit bland. Would not go back again in a hurry. Happy

We had a lovely lunch on the terrace. The plat that day featured moules frites whic we both enjoyed. The frites were crisp and the mountain of moules full of flavour. The entres were both excellent, hers the soup de poisson mine the tabule avec moules. Our meal came with a glas of wine, great value at 15.50 Euro. Service was pleasant and efficient. Great value.