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Le Menestrel

Restaurant Bar French restaurant

🫤 The food was ok and the price-quality relation also interesting considering the other restaurants nearby. The smoking customers smoking inside the inner terrace plus the bad organisation and lack of emotion of the waiters and waitresses made this place lose three stars. People often mention staff, service,


Address

13 Pl. Marcou, 11000 Carcassonne, France

Contact

+33 4 68 47 04 92

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

3.00 (929 reviews)

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Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: staff (8) service (7)
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  • 2/5 Carla 8 months ago on Google
    The food was ok and the price-quality relation also interesting considering the other restaurants nearby. The smoking customers smoking inside the inner terrace plus the bad organisation and lack of emotion of the waiters and waitresses made this place lose three stars.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Mikael L. 1 year ago on Google
    Adequate, but not much more. The pizza was below average and we always had the sense that we should eat up to free up the table. Clean lavatories upstairs.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 tookta k. 1 year ago on Google
    Food is good staff can speak English Very good service
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Henrik H. 10 months ago on Google
    The food was very good, but we wanted to eat together, which is a bit hard when one main course are served after 5 minutes and one after an hour. We also had to remind them about things we had ordered.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Maja K. 1 year ago on Google
    The staff spilled my tea on the table - what is not a problem, but she didn’t apologize or said anything at all. The restaurant looks nice, but the staff seems cold - doesn’t look in the eyes, don’t smile…
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 J S. 1 year ago on Google
    Live caterpillars in my salad! We feel hot and cold about this restaurant. On the one hand, all of the food seemed fresh and hot. The white beans and duck in particular was awesome and could have been shared between two people. The chicken had good flavor but was on the dry side, and the pasta was fine. The salad was so fresh that I found caterpillars! First a big, fat, green one that was munching on my cucumber, and then a smaller one that did not survive the dressing. I gave up trying to eat it after that second discovery. We brought the caterpillars to the server's attention who alerted his boss, and he in turn took the plate away with a look of disgust on his face. And then that was all we heard of it! No one commented on it to us. We paid the full price for the salad. It was as if nothing ever happened. Astonishing. That said, the beans and duck were so good that I couldn't completely bomb the review here. If you have no other options in the walled city and must eat here, stay away from the raw dishes and order something thoroughly cooked. Overall, for the cost and our experience, I will not recommend this restaurant.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Fiorella Cecilia M. 2 years ago on Google
    The place is clean and it's well located. Toilets are ok. The weitress was upset with us for some reason and didn't speak English with us but did so with other customers. Breakfast was ok but bread is not of the day tbh. Croissant has not an amazing teste but it's ok. All normal but for the price we would have hopped it was better. 5 people ate for 51euros. We paid we card.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Carolyn B. 1 year ago on Google
    Absolutely lovely place and staff. We only wanted to share a pizza and bottle of wine as we'd had a massive late lunch. It was no problem 3 water glasses, 3 wine glasses, 3 plates and cutlery a fabulous ham pizza and bottle of red. We were treated like we were having a 3 course menu. Thank you Le Menestrel. Oh nice toilets too 🤗🤗🤗
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Stefan 1 year ago on Google
    The food (one piece of chicken) was raw and well done at the same time. Unfriendly staff that doesn‘t understand English. The steak hache (adult portion) was as small as the children‘s one.

  • 3/5 Graham van der W. 1 year ago on Google
    Quick service in a beautiful setting. Tried the duck in white beans, quite tasty but rather heavy. Wine was really nice.

  • 2/5 Gerben V. 1 year ago on Google
    Perfect location but terrible service. I got the feeling that they didn't have time for us and that we got lucky they served us. Upon bringing the drinks they immediately handed us the creditcardreader so after finishing we went somewhere else for the next round.

  • 4/5 Kayleigh M. 1 year ago on Google
    Quick service and friendly staff. I thought the cassoulet was delicious!

  • 5/5 Wilf J. 8 months ago on Google
    Although I live close to Carcassonne we meet up with friends once a year and eat here. The service, food and ambiance is first class. I can understand that in the busy season you may have to wait a little, sit back and enjoy the atmosphere.

  • 5/5 Dee W. 8 months ago on Google
    Lunch in the castle grounds very large portions mussels so tasty and very fresh, burger alittle to red forme so make sure you ask for yours to be cooked how you like it. Perfect service

  • 5/5 Dave H. 10 months ago on Google
    I had a couple of Pelforth beers with burger and chips. The food was fantastic and the beer was incredible. Service was very swift and efficient. The total bill that also included two cans of diet coke and a ham and cheese sandwich was 58 euros. It ain't cheap but the food was great. You always pay a premium when your in beautiful surroundings.

  • 1/5 Burnett T. 8 months ago on Google
    We just wanted to have a couple of beers and maybe a snack but were treated very rudely by several of the staff immediately upon arriving. I was very thrown off by it all and wanted to believe that I had maybe done something to upset our waitress but I’m sure I didn’t. I don’t usually take time to write reviews so please know that this place is awful.

  • 5/5 seth 6 months ago on Google
    Ate here twice, and had a brilliant experience both times with incredible service from the staff and extremely nice food, great atmosphere while eating and not too loud or anything of the sort 10/10

  • 5/5 JC S. 6 months ago on Google
    Nestled within the historic confines of Cité de Carcassonne, this restaurant offers a delightful dining experience. During our road trip through France, we had the pleasure of savoring the finest onion soup at this cozy restaurant.


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Amenities


  • Pets
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Pluxee
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ Meal coupons
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Healthy options
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
    • ✓️ Breakfast
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✗ Delivery
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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