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The Fat Duck

The Fat Duck

6 rue du Pont Larreguy, 16500 Confolens, France

Cafés • Européen • Français • Fruit De Mer


"My partner and I visited on Saturday with December just after 7. When we went in there was already a table of 4 and a table of 3. On arriving we were told by the waitress that there was only one chef on and there would be a long wait for food. However we reckoned it shouldn't be too bad as there were only 7 others to feed. How wrong we were. It took over 40 minutes for a drinks order to be taken. We asked for some bread as we were starving. Starters took over an hour to arrive. Baked camembert was okay but seafood kebab had 2 of the tiniest prawns I have ever seen and the rest was just a few bits of fish. My partner asked for sauteed potatoes with his dish and boiled potatoes arrived. Waitress then tried to say they were sauteed ( she was English so there was no language misunderstanding ) Did eventually get some proper sauteed ones. My pig cheeks were tasty enough until I realised there were lumps of fat and grissle through the dish. There is nothing more disgusting then picking up what you think is a lump of meat to find it is just fat. When waitress asked how meal was I did mention all the fat which I left on the plate. She said she would tell chef however there was no comment or apology made about it. The desserts were the highlight of the meal. Lovely coffee and walnut ice cream and brownies. Bill then came and seemed very high. On checking we discovered 3 mistakes resulting in an overcharge of 31 euros. We were charged twice for desserts....my set meal of 3 courses charged extra for dessert and we were charged for a meal we did not have. The waitress was new but I'm afraid she was completely incompetent. Nice enough but no sense. Could not recommend to anyone. By the way we did not get out of restaurant till after 10 and there were no other customers the whole night. No excuse for chef not seeing me about the fat."