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We are staying in Sete for a few weeks so thought we'd do a day trip to Beziers and time it so we arrived for lunch and try out this one-star opposite the station.On arrival it looks very closed, but it turned out that the owners simply thought frosted windows was a good external look! It was relatively posh inside and only three other tables being used. We went for the €30 menu, but there were €45 and €75 options. We had a bottle of Minervois white, which was very nice indeed (and only €24).This restaurant is very old-school. Nibbles to start, amuse bouche, starter, largeish main, cheese or desert. Pre-desert if you went for desert. All very nice, but not outstanding. The best dish was the amuse bouche! It was a foie gras and mushroom thing with foam on top. The foie gras was ridiculously good. We couldn’t work out if it was pan-fried or the mousse type option but extremely smooth. Anyway, as we ate it we doubted whether we would have anything better to follow, and so it proved. As usual with “old-school”, the starters were better than the mains. I had tuna with asparagus (with some nice touches in terms of sauces) and my wife had rouget on artichokes with a cod fish cake underneath. I won’t trouble you with the mains. For desert, I went for cheese and there was a massive cheese board (hadn’t had that for a while) and my wife went for the chocolate delice which was classic and very nice. Coffee was €4 a go (expensive for France), so we refused on principal and found a place for €1.50 up the road.The service was very good and we enjoyed ourselves, but I sensed that this is a restaurant that would not get a Michelin star in a buzzy city like London. I've certainly eaten better in London restaurants that do not have a star. The lunch menu is good value, though, so don't be put off. Perhaps the bigger menus are a step up.