Téléphone: (+44)2083906832
Adresse: Surbiton, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom, Kingston upon Thames
Ville: Kingston upon Thames
Plats: 4
Avis: 1819
"We were walking around Surbiton the other day and decided to go in. Note: the name on the windows was “Le Café du Vin but it is the same place from what I can see.We didn 't check online first. We were visiting the area and just walked in.We were lured in because of the name on the windows “Le Café du Vin and we wanted to get something French. (I’m French so I fancied a bit of Home food for a change … Only the whole Menu was Italian, with a bit of Spanish thrown in ! Not one thing on the Menu was French. At all. Maybe the toasts and jam? There were no pastries left when we arrived.Don’t get me wrong: I love Italian food and Spanish food (I’m half Spanish after all but why advertise this as being a French place and put a French name on the door when there is nothing French about it…aside from the wines on sale, maybe? I didn 't really look at them. Even so, one would expect that if the wines were French, so would be the food.. Nope. Even the jars of foods (olives etc.. on the shelves looked mostly Italian.I don 't get it. In South East France (Provence-Côte D’Azur there are also plenty of Mediterranean dishes with olives, olive oil, tomatoes, peppers, fish etc. such as Pissaladière (Type of Pizza without a tomato base : only onions and anchovies , Pan Bagnat (bread roll filled with Salade Niçoise , Pistou (similar to Italian Pesto soup, Bouillabesse, Ratatouille etc.. . This means they could still advertise the place as being French and serve Mediterranean food if that’s what they want to do. France is a big country with very different cuisines depending on where you go. It’s not all butter, cream and beef bourguignon...Food itself was OK/Average. I wasn 't in the best of moods so I went for something simple: eggs on toast. Nothing to write home about but OK. We were disappointed because the menu was not what we expected to find and we didn’t want to drive park somewhere else again so we stayed put.Suggestion: What about renaming the place “CANTINA ITALIANA” and advertising it as an Italian type place which is what it is, kind of? At least there won’t be any confusion …"
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