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Les Mouettes, 11 Rue des Bains, 14360 Trouville, Normandy, France

Submitted by m on Wed, 08/02/2006 - 13:55.

11 Rue des Bains, 14360 Trouville, Normandy, France

02.31. 98.06.97

Every restaurant we passed looked good. All the menus outside seemed interesting and modestly priced. We couldn't decide. Les Mouettes was just off the main drag, it looked fine, we marched in. They sat the four of us at the central round table, and brought us menus in French and English. There was a catch - they were different menus, offering different set meals. This led to much merry confusion, wrong dishes, misunderstandings and apologies, all very good humoured. It would all have been simpler if they had not attempted to produce an English menu at all! We had the 140Fr menu and stars of the meal were the oysters, the steack au poivre and the surprisingly excellent combination of haddock in a buerre blanc on choucrout. The desserts were home made and a tad stale, to be honest. Never mind, they came round three times with the complementary calvados! The waiter explained that this was a speciality of the house, they steep fresh ginger in Normandy's finest product (who cares about apples, butter or camembert?) for seven days. Concerned that we didn't understand him (again!) he came back with a big lump of root ginger to demonstrate. More merriment and ribaldry.

Trouville is right next door to Deauville and much nicer - Deauville is like Torquay but without the bohemian atmosphere. It was great to be reminded that outside Paris, French people are smiling, friendly and helpful. With wine, the whole meal came to under £20 each. We waddled happily back to L'Hotel Helios, which you should do all you can to avoid. Daisy Middleton (8th March 2000)

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