Le Moussaillon - Réserver une table

We spent our holidays in Meschers-sur-Gironde: a beautiful quiet place where you can still enjoy the quietness and purity of the French culture in the middle of summer. It was obvious this was a local favourite: among various fish restaurants, the majority of customers filled up the tables and chairs of this restaurant's terrace. Great atmosphere. They are not running to bring you your orders or bill, but even though very friendly. I had the Salade fruits de mer: it was incredibly tasty. You could immediately tell there was someone in the kitchen who knew what he/she was doing. You know the feeling where you get something on your plate and you think: "hmmm, I think I could do this better"? Well, that was NOT my feeling that day in July :) Very reasonable prices as well. If you ever stay in the vicinity of Meschers (like Royan!), do yourself a favour and visit this nice authentic village (beautiful ancient church). Then walk to the little harbour and order that salad :)

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4 of us visited this restaurant at lunchtime on a Friday, we were catching up as we hadn't seen each other for a long time.We arrived at the restaurant, were seated very quickly and then the waitress tried to take our order more or less before we had seen the menu!! We needed more time so had an aperitif which gave us chance to peruse the menus.My husband had the moules frites and boy what a huge bowl of moules and lots of lovely sauce with them too. I had an Assiette fruit de mer which came with 5 oysters, 5 langoustines, 5 crevettes, quite a lot of bulots and some tiny prawns. Lovely sauces with it too and some rillettes to go with the oysters. One of our friends chose a similar plate to me but had smoked salmon and melon with some langoustines and prawns. The other friend had the Moules Charantais that looked delicious.Two of the party chose a dessert and they both went for the Cafe Gourmand. A lovely meal, the shellfish at this restaurant is always excellent.

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We visited at the end of August for an important meal with family guests. Initial service was good - the child's starters arrived within five minutes. After that everything collapsed. Our main courses were forgotten. After a VERY long wait the waiter and the manager merely said that the chef was having a bad day. Two main courses had obviously been left on the counter for a long time and were cold and dry. No apology was given, they just blamed the chef, inappropriately. Bad management, bad service, bad food. Hopefully this may have been an unusual mistake but we won't be returning to find out!

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We have been visiting this restaurant for the last 20 years & have found it to be a typical family run French eatery. The same family have had it for all that time & some of the staff have also worked for them for a considerable number of years. The food is fairly basic but usually well presented & cooked. The service is unfailingly cheerful & polite. All in all a great place for either lunch or dinner but be warned it is very popular in August & booking is recommended

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I have been a regular at the Moussaillon for quite a number of years, and have never been disappointed. Absolutely fantastic fresh seafood, nicely prepared and served, and some excellent local wines. Nice friendly staff also.

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