Restaurant La Gouesnière

I am not really sure how they get their Michelin star... We were told that the chef was new and we thought he was new to the restaurant, not to the business. Food was really disappointing. We ordered two 20€ glass of Chablis and we could hardly see any wine in the glass. Also the waiters were kind of junior and totally unprepared to deal unsatisfied customers. They told us that we were not the only ones not happy with the food... The windows were dirty, the toilets outside and old. There are plenty of places around there where you can have much better at a fraction of their prices... *** UPDATE: of course we complained, but the waiter told us we were not the only ones unhappy with the food and just ignored us. I have hidden the face of clients as requested, I just wanted to highlight the state of the windows.

Stopped here as part of a longer day trip due to the Michelin guide, and were thoroughly happy that we did so. We had the current lunch menu, and found everything to be interesting, delicious, perfectly balanced, and in many cases with some amount of delightful surprise. I will call out one dish in particular - on the side of the grilled octopus entrée was a small piece of (I believe) Andouillé sausage. When I first tasted it, I was genuinely transported in my mind back to my grandmother's kitchen when I was a child, 100% Ratatouille/Anton Ego style. I disappeared for several seconds, in the best possible way. How they made that happen, I do not know, but I'm grateful that they did. The service was lovely. I honestly do not understand the one star reviews here. I wonder if it is some kind of expectations mismatch. They seem to me to be reviews more of the people themselves and their state if mind than of this restaurant. Maybe if you are a person who is grumpy and sour and doesn't like nice things, this is not the place for you. 🤷

There were the absolutely rude waiters, they didn't listen, simply ran to the kitchen after hearing the first three words, and every time yet another waiter came and we had to explain everything again. The restaurant was half-empty, so they were not busy, but most of the time they hid in the kitchen. I the hotel they didn't warn that this restaurant doesn't have children menu, and they could only offer a sea-fruit. After lots of questions/answers back and forth, the waiter came and said that the chef can cook 'something' for our child but the waiter couldn't explain what it was. So, if you want to have dinner there with kids, strongly not recommended. Eventually we just left and went to a bistro in the same building, that one was amazing. UPDATE: perhaps the restaurant hoped that I won't translate their reply, but I did. You just lied from start to end: 1. Chef never came over, there were three or four waiters who stopped at our table for three seconds and then ran away. 2. It was us to decide to leave your restaurant and not you offering us to go to bistro. 3. We reserved the restaurant at the hotel reception not at the restaurant itself. And last but not least: you lie that it was us to behave disrespectfully. Shame on you!

Extremely dissapointed and this for several reasons 1. It was quite cold in the restaurant at night and some people had to keep their coat during the whole evening 2. Waiters were unexperienced and not 'warm/chaleaureux' 3. But the most dissapointing thing was that the meat (that was cooked for 36 hours) was extremely dry (it should melt in the mouth) and almost not eatable, and when we told the waitress about it in a very polite and gentle way, she just said 'okay' and we never saw her again. Not even a word like 'we're sorry' or 'we will talk about it with the chef'.... Quite unexeptable behaviour. 4. In the end, we've paid too much for what we've eaten and the sevice that we've got. This doesn't deserve a one Michelin star but rather a one 'google review' star I see that there is a doubt on the authenticity of this review. We had dinner on 12/10/2021. Strange that you now reply that you would have turned up the heat and that you care, because when we told that some food was not ok, nobody cared, listened and responded. We were left literally and figuratively in the cold.

Excellent food and outstanding service. Heck even the Bordier butter for the bread was memorable. Oysters excellent.

Wonderful food and wine paring. Extremely good service. Beautiful dining rooms.

Un dîner incroyable autour de la table du chef, partagé entre amis. Nous avons eu la chance d’être installés dans une salle privative avec vue sur les cuisines, ce qui rend l’expérience vraiment unique. Le chef est venu nous présenter chaque plat lui-même, avec beaucoup de passion. Le repas monte en intensité au fil des assiettes. J’ai adoré l’entrée autour du rouget, pleine de finesse, et la déclinaison d’agneau était remarquable. Les mignardises en fin de repas étaient aussi très réussies, à la fois originales et gourmandes. Le service a été parfait du début à la fin : chaleureux, attentif, toujours à l’écoute. Un grand bravo aux équipes, en salle comme en cuisine, pour leur professionnalisme et leur générosité. C’est une table qui mérite clairement une étoile. Un vrai coup de cœur. À découvrir sans hésiter.

Excellente table menée par le chef , nous avons super bien mangé (menu dégustation), du très haut niveau de cuisine qui sans aucun doute saura être reconnu et récompensé pour son travail. Équipe en salle pro qui prend le temps d’expliquer chaque plat dans le détail avec le plaisir de mettre en avant les très bons produits locaux. Le service est fait avec passion et permet aux clients d’apprécier ce moment. Merci au chef pour ce temps d’échange en fin de service.